Curated by Mike Berry and Derek Spratley

The gallery will be closed Friday, June 19, and Saturday, July 4.

Beauford Delaney’s luminous paintings and magnetic character bridged the gap between everyday individuals and global icons, joining them in relationships that stretched from Knoxville to Paris. Drawing on Derek Spratley’s thirty years of experience as administrator of the Delaney Estate, Beauford Delaney: Degrees of Separation, revisits the painter’s work and worlds through the lens of these “degrees of separation” to explore the deeply reciprocal influence the artist had on those he encountered throughout his travels across the domestic and international stage.

This exhibition features works by Beauford Delaney with additional works by friends and paintings and drawings from the Ewing Gallery Permanent Collection by his brother Joseph Delaney.

event image | James Baldwin, Istanbul, Turkey ca. 1965, ink on paper

Private Collection, © Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator