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JOSEPH DELANEY (1904 - 1991)
Untitled (Still Life with Flowers and Chinese Plate)
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Oil on canvas board, 1940. 762x559; 30x22 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: private NewYork collection.
This unusual still life by Joseph Delaney is a beautiful study in a limited palette. Joseph Delaney
moved from his native Tennessee to NewYork in 1930 at the age of 26, where he studied at the Art
Students League with Thomas Hart Benton. 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
NewYork Public Library.
[10,000/15,000]