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Mark and park lightworks2/17/2023 In a New York Times article from last fall, arts writer Jake Cigainero explained: “Growing market appreciation of Delaney’s work has made it challenging for the Knoxville museum to afford it. The Knoxville Museum of Art mounted a Beauford Delaney retrospective with loaned works in 2003, but surprisingly had none of the artist’s works in its collection. In his hometown, few outside of art circles knew who was. Delaney died in 1979 in a Paris mental hospital. Although born in Knoxville in 1901, his artistic, but impoverished, life was spent in the art and literary world of Henry Miller, James Baldwin, and Georgia O’Keefe in New York and Paris. In an article from the Knoxville Mercury in 2016, Jack Neely wrote this about painter Beauford Delaney: “ Beauford Delaney (1901-1979) is the best-known artist who ever lived in Knoxville.” That statement is inarguably true, but sadly requires some qualification.
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