Antiques-ArtOtherFINE ARTDECORATIVE ARTTRIBAL - ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTCERAMICSCOLLECTIBLESTEXTILES Harlem Renaissance Painting by Joseph DeLaney / African American Artist / 1940 Harlem Renaissance painting of nude women dancing around a fire, by listed African-American artist,Joseph DeLaney (1904 - 1981).
Watercolor, gouache, and crayon on illustration board. Signed and dated by the artist, lower right “1940\". Framed and matted, as shown.
Depicting a wild ”Danse Sauvage” - Josephine Baker style scene, and although the exact idea or inspiration for this piece is unknown, it may be a real or imagined Harlem nightclub show, or theatrical production. Joseph DeLaney and his brother Beauford DeLaney are well-known Harlem Renaissance artists. This is one of Joseph DeLaney’s most uninhibited, fully realized and expressive works.
SIZE:Painting - 16\" x 19\" / Frame - 24” x 29”
CONDITION: Good condition with no damage or restorations. Frame with wear and small losses.This piece will be a museum quality addition to any collection of American Art and will display beautifully in any Mid Century Modern, Art Deco - WPA Style, Impressionist, Modernist, or Arts and Crafts decor. look carefully at all the photos to view the details and condition of the piece.
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BIOGRAPHY:African-American artist Joseph Delaney was a folk-expressionist painter who loved New York City, both as a subject for painting and the spectacle and experience of ever-changing life and vitality. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1904, the ninth of ten children. It was in church that Delaney and his older brother, Beauford, began to express their art talent by drawing on Sunday School cards. He attended school there, leaving the Knoxville Colored High School at the end of the ninth grade. The next few years were spent doing odd jobs around town until leaving for Chicago around 1924, where he served three years with the National Guard. He returned to Knoxville in 1929, selling insurance and helping found the city\'s first black Boy Scout unit.
In 1930, Delaney went to New York City, and began studies at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton, George Bridgman and Alexander Brooke. Other students there at the time included Jackson Pollock, Henry Stair, and Bruce Mitchell.
In 1932, he exhibited in the first Washington Square Outdoor Art Show. He would continue to do so for the next forty years, working as a sketch artist there, drawing such celebrities as Eartha Kitt, Arlene Francis, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Tallulah Bankhead. Delaney would spend fifty-six years living and painting in the area of lower Manhattan, SoHo and Union Square.
From 1934-1940, Delaney worked for the WPA (Works\' Progress Administration) on projects in New York City including the Index of Design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pier 72 mural, and the Story of the Recorded Word mural at the Public Library. He also taught at Harlem and Brooklyn settlement houses and the Art Students League while exhibiting his paintings in his studio, art galleries and other exhibitions.
In 1942, Delaney received a Julius Rosenwald grant to travel, sketch and later paint the Eastern seaboard. In 1964, he was a sketch artist for the New Orleans exhibit and later the Ghana exhibit at the New York City World\'s Fair. From 1978-1980, he worked for CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, as an artist in residence at the Henry Street Settlement.
In 1979, Delaney\'s brother, Beauford, died in Paris at St. Anne\'s Hospital, an insane asylum. Joseph Delaney had Beauford\'s art and personal effects shipped to the U.S.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: New York Federal Art Project, 1936-39; American Negro Exposition, Chicago, 1940; McMillen Gallery, New York, 1941; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1942; Riverside Museum, New York, 1942; Art Students League, New York, 1944; National Academy of Design, New York, 1946, 1948; New York Public Library, 1961; Invisible Americans: Black Artists of the \'30\'s, the Studio Museum in Harlem, 1968; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1969, 1971; The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1976; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Ca., 1976; Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, 1982; Harry S. Truman Library and Museum; Huntington Hartford Collection, New York; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Harlem State Office Building Art Collection, New York
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