Description
Portrait- Woman with Pigtails, 1960
Artist: Joseph Delaney
Oil on canvas, 1940
31 x 23 1/2 inches inches
Signed and dated lower left
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.
