The Art of Beauford Delaney | Brown Bag Lecture by Stephen Wicks

Stephen Wicks, curator at the Knoxville Museum of Art, will explore the legacy of painter Beauford Delaney, one of the country’s most significant African American modernists. Born in Knoxville in 1901, Delaney went from sketching on Sunday school cards to formal lessons with Knoxville’s Lloyd Branson to joining the artistic revolution in Harlem, New York. From 1953 until his 1979 death he lived in Paris, where his artistic focus shifted from depictions of city life to abstract expressionism. While you are at ETHS for the program, we invite you to view the watercolor painting by Delaney in the museum’s current Branson exhibition.

The Brown Bag lecture is sponsored by Harriet Z. Albers Memorial and the lecture and corresponding activities are free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at noon at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville. Guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch and enjoy the lecture. Soft drinks will be available. For more information on the lecture, exhibitions, or museum hours, call 865-215-8824.