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    Latin American masters of soulful straight lines  Sep 15, 2007
    During the last few decades the ranks of North American abstractionists of the 1940s, '50s and '60s have swelled, adding names like John McLaughlin, Steve Wheeler, Beauford Delaney and Janet Sobel. Even more significant, a large cast of Latin American artists has shouldered its way into the narrative. (International Herald Tribune)

    Zane's World: Fisky Business  Sep 13, 2007
    OKeeffe is known to have been close to a number of black artists and writers, including Beauford Delaney (whom she painted) and Jean Toomer (whose papers and letters are also housed at Fisk). As the anonymous culture professional in Santa Fe summarized it: It would not have escaped OKeeffe that, to the extent that American culture is distinct from European culture, it is African-American. (Santa Fe Reporter)

    A legacy that inspired a generation of artists  Jun 7, 2006
    Others, such as William H. Johnson, Dox Thrash, Charles White, James Lesesne Wells and Beauford Delaney, are less well-known but nonetheless made significant contributions to what would become the first important African-American arts movement. The show represents the second half of the BMA's in-depth appraisal of Tanner's achievement, which began in December when the museum presented Tanner and the Lure of Paris, a show of similar proportions that focused on how Tanner's French contemporaries... (SunSpot.net)




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