MeMoMu_HOHI_023 YELLOW, RED AND BLACK CIRCLES / THROUGH THE UNUSUAL DOOR
This 2025 Mait Vigriste work, "Yellow, Red, and Black Circles for Allar Jõgger (Kürbla)" is now part of the Endel Lepp Museum of Art collection.
Estate of Mait Vigriste, by permission of Lilli-Endel Lepp, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator
This 1966 Beauford Delaney work, "Yellow, Red, and Black Circles for Jimmy Baldwin (Istanbul)" is now part of the Knoxville Museum of Art collection.
Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator
"Beauford Delaney & James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door"
15 PHOTOS
1:00 p.m. EEST Jan. 30, 2020
Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door
February 7, 2020 - October 25, 2020
Exhibition NOTES
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door February 7-October 25, 2020. This exhibition of 50+ paintings, works on paper, and unpublished archival material examines the 38-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris) and writer James Baldwin (New York 1924-1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped one another’s creative output and worldview. Through the Unusual Door seeks to identify and disentangle the skein of influences that grew over and around a rich, complex lifetime relationship with a selection of Delaney’s works that reflect the powerful presence of Baldwin in Delaney’s life. The exhibition draws from the KMA’s extensive Delaney holdings, public and private collections around the country, and rarely displayed papers held by the Delaney estate. KMA curator Stephen Wicks is organizing the exhibition, which is accompanied by a color-illustrated catalogue published by the University of Tennessee Press. Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door is made possible by generous underwriting from the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Art Dealers Association of America Foundation.
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The exhibition title Through the Unusual Door comes from a passage in Baldwin’s volume of collected essays The Price of the Ticket (1985) describing the author’s reaction to his initial encounter with Delaney in the doorway of the artist’s Greenwich Village studio: “Lord, I was to hear Beauford sing, later, and for many years, open the unusual door… I walked through that door into Beauford’s colors.” This first meeting encapsulates Delaney’s transformational effect on Baldwin’s view of himself and the world he lived in, and set the tone for the painter’s role in the author’s life as a father figure and mentor. Baldwin, in turn, inspired Delaney with his fearless social conscience and commitment to civil rights causes. They helped each other to move beyond the pain and oppression imposed on them by the world.
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