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Joseph Samuel Delaney

Joseph Samuel Delaney (1904 - 1991) was active/lived in New York, Tennessee.  Joseph Delaney is known for Street genre, figure, portrait, mural.

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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. Of the city, he said: "The curtain goes up on the stage of life every time we walk into the street. In spite of New York's being the most congested city I have been in, and know about, by and large, it's just people on the move. I have enjoyed more than I can say seeing people and hearing them speak about things they love and enjoy."

Delaney, the son of a Methodist minister, was 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 (caddy at the Cherokee Country Club, bell hop at the Farragu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11912 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

.  askART lists Joseph Samuel Delaney in 1 of its research Essays. Joseph Samuel Delaney has 19 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Joseph Samuel Delaney available:    Palmer Cole (Hedgeman) Hayden,  Aaron Douglas,  Beauford Delaney,  Charles Sebree,  Eldzier Cortor,  Lois Mailou Jones,  Charles Henry Alston,  William Ellsworth Artis,  Charles Wilbert White,  Norman Wilfred Lewis,  Hale Aspacio Woodruff,  John Anansa Thomas Biggers,  Augusta Christine Fells (Moore) Savage,  Richmond Barthe,  William Etienne Pajaud Jr,  Ernie Crichlow,  Ellis Wilson,  James Amos Porter,  Dox Thrash,  Claude F Clark Sr,  Henry Ossawa Tanner,  Frederick Douglas Jones Jr,  Selma Hortense Burke,  Laura Wheeler Waring



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Facts about Joseph Samuel Delaney

   Publications  Book References:  28
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Joseph Samuel Delaney
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee August 2002 Walker, Celia Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
28 Book References for Joseph Samuel Delaney
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989)
(Exhibition catalog)
468 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
191 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1981 Wooden, Howard E. (Text) The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Willis, John Ralph Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
75 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Brock, Mark L. Selections II (Brock & Co.)
(Exhibition catalog)
46 Yes
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