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BEAUFORD DELANEY AND JAMES BALDWIN: THROUGH THE UNUSUAL DOORKnoxville Museum of Art / 1050 Worlds Fair Park Dr. February 7 - October 6th

The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door, on view from 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 This exhibition of 50+ paintings, works on paper, and unpublished archival material examines the 38-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris) and writer James Baldwin (New York 1924-1987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 gr...