Beauford Delaney: A Retrospective

Baldwin, James et al.

New York, NY: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978. Softcover. Orange and BW illus. wraps. appx. 94 pp. 32 color, 34 bw repros. VG- (Has a few small writings as ex-art library; cover corners are bent; pages are only slightly aged overall; text and illus. are clear.). Item #1249

Issued in conjunction with a 1978 exhibition of artwork by American modernist Beauford Delaney (1901-1979). An in-depth exhibition that provides scholarship of this expatriate African American artist, who, at the time of this retrospective, was a guest at a French insane asylum, oblivious to what was going on around him. With essays by James Baldwin, Richard A. Long, and Joseph Delaney, the artist's brother. Also includes a reprint of Henry Miller's 1945 essay, "The Amazing and Invariable Beauford Delaney. The exhibition checklist cites 67 pieces, and most if not all are pictured here. Includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.