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paintings at the Washington Square outdoor show. In this photograph there is another waterfront
landscape visible from this period.
In his 1941 exhibition at the midtown Vendome art gallery, Beauford Delaney had just began to
show his more modernist scenes of GreenwichVillage and the environs of his Greene Street studio.
This Impressionist painting shows the apparent influence of John Marin. Delaney was inspired by
the modernists led by his friend Alfred Steiglitz and often frequented his gallery An American Place
where he was introduced to Marin,Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keefe. Canterbury pp. 21-22, 125;
Leeming pp. 62-65.
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