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In a Speculative Light

JAMES BALDWIN AND BEAUFORD DELANEY

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following for providing support for this symposium:
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The UT Office of the Vice President for Research, Outreach and Economic Development
The Better English Fund of the UT Department of English
The UT office of Research and Engagement
The UT College of Arts and Sciences Haines Morris Endowment Fund
The UT Humanities Center

Thank you to the following individuals at the University of Tennessee:
Donde Plowman, UT Knoxville Chancellor
Theresa Lee, Dean, UT College of Arts and Sciences
Amanda Womac, Jeremy Hughes, Patrick Wolf (UT Communications)
Holly Jackson-Sullivan (UT Development)
Daniel Wallace (Website)
Beauvais Lyons (Delaney Project banners)
Jered Sprecher (Pop-Up Portrait Project)
Joan Murray, UTHC office coordinator
Emily Harrison (Graduate Assistant)

Joshua Bienko
Ashley Briggs
Chris Cox
Rubens Ghenov
Drew Haswell
Tanisha Jenkins
Mary Laube
Daniel Magilow
Brandy Norwood
Stacey Patterson
Ann Robinson-Craig
Stephanie Wall
Judith Welch

Thank you to the following individuals at the Knoxville Museum of Art:
David Butler
Sylvia Peters
Derek Spratley
Stephen Wicks

Thank you to our community colleagues:
The Delaney Project, Knoxville, TN
Reneé Kesler, The Beck Cultural Exchange Center
Monique Wells, Les Amis de Beauford Delaney
Michael and Evelyn Gill

Image Credits

“All images of Beauford Delaney and his art are © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.”

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Yaddo,1950
Pastel on paper, 18 x 24 inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Portrait of James Baldwin, 1944
Pastel on paper, 24 x 18 3/4 inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Moving Sunlight, 1965
Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 ½ inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

Circles

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Yellow, Red, and Black Circles for James Baldwin (Istanbul), 1966
Gouache on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

Blue light abstraction

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Blue-Light Abstraction, ca. 1962
Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 ½ inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris)
Untitled (Clamart), 1959
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 inches
Knoxville Museum of Art, © The Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.


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