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.
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.