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JOSEPH DELANEY Standing Female Nude.
Brush and ink on cream wove paper. 530x380 mm; 21x15 inches. Signed in ink, lower right. Ex-collection Carl C. Ashby, New York. 3-inch repaired vertical tear, just into the upper arm, and waterstain, both in the upper margin.
This African-American artist moved from his native Tennessee to New York in 1930 at the age of 26. Delaney studied at the Art Students League with Thomars Hart Benton that year. In 1932, he exhibited in the first Washington Square Outdoor Art Show and continued to work as a sketch artist there. From 1934 to 1940, Delaney worked for the WPA on projects in New York City including the Index of Design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pier 72 mural, and the Story of the Recorded Word mural at the New York Public Library. He also taught at Harlem and Brooklyn settlement houses and the Art Students League. His brother Beauford Delaney was also a noted painter who moved to Paris after a career in New York and Philadelphia in the 1930-40s.
