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Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance
A handwritten list of pictures submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford Delaney, including two oils, four charcoals, and ten pastels.

A handwritten list of pictures submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford Delaney, including two oils, four charcoals, and ten pastels.

Transcription:

B. de Laney

List of pictures
Submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford De Laney.
Oils 1 Gertie Sanford [[object Object]]
2 Genny " " [[object Object]]
charcoal 1 Harlem chore woman
2 Harlem shop girl
3 Harlem working girl.
4 Italian boy.
Pastels 1 Chinese student [[object Object]]
2 Main in brown hat [[object Object]]
3 Algerian boy
4 Negro woman in red hat. [[object Object]]
5 Harlem boy in gray hat [[object Object]]
6 Prince of Wales. X
7 Girl in green dress [[object Object]]
8 Woman in gray x [[object Object]]
9 Eliza X [[object Object]]
10 [[object Object]] Sparrow [[object Object]]Girl in pink[[object Object]] dress]

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W. 424 W 5 2.

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Citation Information
“List of pictures submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford DeLaney,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/82e4279312d8f5ac43f4223da59e2a0a.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art Library via Empire State Digital Network.

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Item 7 of 13 in the Primary Source Set Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Street with Church, a hand-colored relief print by William H. Johnson, circa 1939-1940.
Lift Every Voice and Sing (also known as The Harp), a sculpture by Augusta Savage commissioned for the 1939 World’s Fair.
Lenore, a portrait bust sculpture by Augusta Savage.
Firebirds, a lithograph by Romare Bearden.
A 1939 photograph taken at the Harlem Art Center by Berenice Abbott.
Excerpt from an oral history interview with painter Archibald Motley, 1978.
A handwritten list of pictures submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford Delaney, including two oils, four charcoals, and ten pastels.
A photograph of artist and teacher Lois Jones.
A photograph of Palmer Hayden painting.
Midsummer Night in Harlem, a 1938 painting by Palmer Hayden.
African Phantasy: Awakening, a Winold Reiss illustration from the 1925 anthology The New Negro: An Interpretation, edited by Alain Locke.
Harlem Street Scene, a print by Charles Alston, circa 1935-1943.
A photograph of sculptor Leslie Garland Bolling working on a wood carving.

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