Beauford Delaney collection, 1964-1977.

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Beauford Delaney collection, 1964-1977.

The Beauford Delaney Collection consists of correspondence with colleagues, friends, gallery owners, and family members as well a printed material documenting Delaney's life in Paris. Biographical information is provided in statements Delaney authored, articles prepared by others for catalogs, and his obituary. Among the many friends, colleagues and art collectors with whom he maintained an active correspondence are James Baldwin (included with an essay he wrote for an introduction to a catalog for an exhibition of Delaney's art at Paris' Galerie Lambert in 1964). Other correspondents include artists Charles Boggs, Al Hirschfeld, John Franklin Koenig, and Ellis Wilson, authors James Jones and Henry Miller (who was also a water colorist), art historian Richard A. Long, and his friend Lynn Stone. Additional artists, painters, writers, gallery owners and musicians who corresponded with Delaney include Lawrence Calcagno, Cab Calloway, Elaine DeKooning, Palmer C. Hayden, and Darthea Speyer.

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Stone, Lynn

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de Kooning, Elaine

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