Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow

Softcover exhibition catalog published by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, for the 2002 exhibition of Beauford Delaney's works titled The Color Yellow. The exhibition continued on to The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Anacostia Museum and Center for African History and Culture of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. The book includes a Sponsor's Statement; Foreword and Acknowledgements by Michael E. Shapiro; the two page poem Ascending, written by Richard A. Long for Beauford Delaney; the 18 page essay The Color of Ecstasy by Richard J. Powell, which is accompanied by many black and white photographs of the artist; and 30 full color plates of his work. Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 - March 26, 1979) was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930's and 1940's, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950's.