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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains meeting reminders for Jim and Bunny LeGros. Contains ink sketches of building rooftops, city street scenes, and still-lifes. Contains two oil pastels, one a yellow still-life vase of flowers, the second a plant sitting on a windowsill.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains reminder for appointment with Ahmed Bioud. Contains ink sketches of city street scenes, portraiture studies, and jazz musicians. Contains one ink and oil pastel city landscape sketch.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1951-1954. Contains ink and watercolor abstracts. Contains ink sketches of expressionistic city landscapes and classical anatomical and portrait studies.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1950-1951. Contains appointment and meeting reminders, ink and graphite abstract sketches, portrait, and landscape studies.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1938. Contains meditations of Beauford Delaney’s time spent with Selma Burke on a boat ride along the Harlem River and a trip to Ellis Wilson’s studio. Contains graphite sketches from the outing along the Harlem River, sketches of expressionistic landscapes, and classical anatomical and portrait studies. Artist Rex Goreleigh is also mentioned.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1940s. Contains meditations on Walt Disney’s use of color animation, and a written excerpt from ‘Simplicity in Comparison’ by Alfred Stieglitz. Delaney contemplates cameras being a visceral tool for art. Contains ink sketches of city and rural landscapes and oil pastel abstracts.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains ink sketches of expressionistic landscapes, abstract shapes, and classical anatomical and portrait studies. Of note is an abstract ink sketch titled ‘Mme Helene Baltrusaitis’.

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Inscription inside front cover reads "For Beauford, Noel 1965, Charley, Gita, Gordon. Herein I have listed only a few of your many friends. Yours to fill up the pages! Charley." Delaney did not add any addresses, but there is a sketch on the penultimate page and an address on the last page in a different hand.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains ink sketches of Henry Miller, classical anatomical and portrait studies, and graphite city landscapes.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Beauford Delaney Papers consist of the artists’ personal and professional papers from the 1900s through the 1970s. This includes correspondence with colleagues, friends and family; photographs of Beauford and others; sketchbooks and notebooks; loose sketches and other artworks; exhibition materials; and printed material collected by Delaney. The bulk of the collection consists of materials collected and created during Beauford’s time in Paris, where he lived from 1953 until his death in...