Untitled (Fang Sculpture, Crow and Fruit)
Beauford Delaney
American Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Radical Care
Beauford Delaney arranged this still-life composition as if it were an offering to the Fang reliquary figure (a ritual object used by Fang peoples from central West Africa) seen on the right. The artist’s vivid colors and energetic brushwork create a sense of vibration—the bowl almost appears to spin, and the figure to rock. Delaney may have seen traditional African art at the Primitive African Art Center in Manhattan or at the Brooklyn Museum.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1945
DIMENSIONS
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
frame: 32 x 37 x 4 in. (81.3 x 94 x 10.2 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed and dated lower left: "Beauford Delaney / 45"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2014.73
CREDIT LINE
Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Arnold Lehman, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund
PROVENANCE
Before January 24, 1983, acquired, possibly as a gift of from the artist, by Emanuel Redfield of New York, NY; between 1983 and 2004, provenance not yet documented; before 2004, acquired by Richard Gardner of New York; by January 15, 2004, acquired by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York; December 11, 2014, purchased form Michael Rosenfeld Gallery by the Brooklyn Museum.
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EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Radical Care
CAPTION
Beauford Delaney (American, 1901–1979). Untitled (Fang Sculpture, Crow and Fruit), 1945. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Arnold Lehman, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 2014.73. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2014.73_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2014.73_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
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