Artworks

Portrait of a Young Musician, 1970

  • Artist

    Beauford Delaney

  • Title

    Portrait of a Young Musician

  • Date

    1970

  • Medium

    Acrylic on canvas

  • Dimensions

    51 × 38 in. (129.5 × 96.5 cm) Frame: 51 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (130.8 × 97.8 × 4.4 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the Estate of Beauford Delaney

  • Object Number

    2004.2.27

Beauford Delaney was a painter who began his career during the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering among African-American intellectuals and artists in New York during the 1920s. He is known for his bright use of color and impasto, a technique involving the thick layering of paint on canvas. Portrait of a Young Musician features a man with wide eyes and an ambiguous grin. Bright yellow, a vibrant hue that became the artist’s trademark, permeates the background and accents the figure.


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Artworks

Portrait of a Young Musician, 1970

  • Artist

    Beauford Delaney

  • Title

    Portrait of a Young Musician

  • Date

    1970

  • Medium

    Acrylic on canvas

  • Dimensions

    51 × 38 in. (129.5 × 96.5 cm) Frame: 51 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (130.8 × 97.8 × 4.4 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the Estate of Beauford Delaney

  • Object Number

    2004.2.27

Beauford Delaney was a painter who began his career during the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering among African-American intellectuals and artists in New York during the 1920s. He is known for his bright use of color and impasto, a technique involving the thick layering of paint on canvas. Portrait of a Young Musician features a man with wide eyes and an ambiguous grin. Bright yellow, a vibrant hue that became the artist’s trademark, permeates the background and accents the figure.


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