Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Beauford Delaney · 1944

Provenance

Ownership history

Atelier Dore, San Francisco; with Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, by 1989 [Newark, 1990, cat. 32]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Newark Museum, Against the Odds: African–American Artists and the Harmon Foundation, Jan. 13–Apr. 15, 1990, cat. 32; Charleston, Gibbes Art Gallery, May 7–July 9, 1990; Chicago Public Library, Cultural Center, July 28–Sept. 29, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8231/in-their-own-right-images-of-african-americans">In Their Own Right: Images of African Americans</a>, Sept. 27, 1997–Jan. 19, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art of the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 15–Mar. 18, 2003.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris, Nov. 20, 2004–Feb. 20, 2005, cat. 5 (ill.).
Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 37.
Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, July 12, 2024–Apr. 20, 2025, no cat. no.

Literature

Gary A. Reynolds, et al., Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation, exh. cat. (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1989), cat. 32, pl. 25 (ill.).
Andrea D. Barnwell, “Self–Portrait,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1992): 200–2 (ill.).
Esther E. Grisham, Art Education 46, no. 4 (July 1993): 25–28, 37–40.
Chicago Reader, Jan. 17, 1997, Section 2, 17 (ill., image reversed).
Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1999): 185.
Philippe Briet, ed., Tributary (Edgewise Press, 1999), (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 304–5, cat. 149 (ill.).
Yang Zhigang, ed., Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 37.
"Georgia O'Keeffe's Beauford Delaney," The Art Institute of Chicago Member Magazine (Spring 2019): 31 (ill.).
Hilton Als and Rhea L. Combs, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, exh. cat. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2024), 29, no cat. no. (ill.).

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