biografía de Joseph DELANEY (1904-1991)

Lugar de nacimiento: Knoxville, TN

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Painter, writer

Estudios: ASL, 1929-35 & continuing education; NY Univ., writing with Horce Coohn; also with George Bridgeman, Thomas Hart Benton & Alexander Brook.

Exposiciones: Wash. Square Shows, NYC, 1937-40; S.Indp.A., 1940, 1942, 1944; American Negro Expo., Chicago, IL, 1940; Mc Millen Galleries, NYC, 1941; Atlanta Univ., 1942, 1946 (prize); AFA traveling exh.; NAD, 1944, 1945; Greeenwich House, NYC, 1944 (prize); BM; Arizona Collection, MMA, 1942; Hotel Diplomat, 1948; Contemporary American Painters, WMAA, 1950; City Coll. of NY, 1967; Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, 1970; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1970; Studio Museum, Harlem, 1971. Awards: Rosenwald fellowship, 1942; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977."

Asociaciones: Soc.Independent Artists; Artists League .Am.; Art Student League New York (life member); Old Independent Art Soc.; Bumshell Art Group; Artists Equity Assn.

Obra: Atlanta Univ.; National Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC; Univ. Arizona, Tucson; Truman Library, Independence, MO; Huntington Hartford Collection, New York; NAD; MMA; Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville. Commissions: Environment, mural of 126th St & 7th Ave, Harlem Museum, New York, 1971.

Comentarios: Preferred medium: oils. Positions: art instructor & researcher, Works Progress Admin. Federal Art Project, 1934-40; researcher, American Wing, Metropolitan Mus. Art, 1936-38 & 1938-39. Brother of artist Beauford Delaney. Publications: author, Dralen Locke," Negro in art, 1944; author, "Robert Pincus-Witten," Artforum, 1970; also articles in Ebony, 1968 & New York Post, 1971. Teaching: art instructor, anatomy, Vermont Academy, summer, 1968. Research: European museum art work in Paris and London.

Fuentes: WW73; Evelyn Brown, Artist at work (Harman Foundation, 1942); Hilton Kramer, article in New York Times, 1970; WW47; Driskell, Hidden Heritage, 59-60 (repro., fig. 39); Cederholm, Afro-American Artists; New York City WPA Art, 25 (w/repros.)"