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JOSEPH DELANEY (1904 - 1991)
Student Lounge,Vermont Academy
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Oil on canvas board, 1970. 559x711; 22x28 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto (painted
over an older signature). Signed, titled and inscribed with the artist’s addresses “704 Sixth Ave.” and “33
Union SquareWest, NYC 10003” in ink on a fragment of the original backing paper, mounted verso
on the frame back.
Provenance: obtained directly from the artist, private collection.
Joseph Delaney continued to paint large figure compositions late in his career - often from memory.
Delaney taught painting at the Vermont Academy, a private coed prep school, with a Ford
Foundation grant in 1968.
[10,000/15,000]
