Description
Carolina Fruit Peddler, c. 1942
Artist: Joseph Delaney
Watercolor, pen and ink
13 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches inches
Signed lower right
SOLD
Joseph Delaney was an important African-American folk impressionist painter. He loved NYC as a place to live and a subject to paint. He studied at the Student Art League in NYC with Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock, George Bridgeman and many others. He is also brother to renowned artist Beauford Delaney.
