Amazing grace: a life of Beauford Delaney
Biography, Fine arts biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Biography of the African American modernist painter who was born in 1901 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and died in Paris in 1979. Describes his family's religious background, his upbringing in the segregated South, and his later problems with alcoholism and mental… illness. Traces his artistic career through Boston, New York, and Paris, where his friends included James Baldwin and Henry Miller. 1998.
Title Details
ISBN
9780195097849
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright Date
1998
Book number
2382504
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Mary Kane
Duration
8 hours 38 minutes 47 seconds
Audio producer
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH, (Bethesda, Md. : Potomac Talking Book Services), 1999.