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In honor of the centennial of Beauford Delaney's birth, An Artistic Friendship examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important American artists of the twentieth century, Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno. An unlikely pair, the two became friends in Paris in the early 1950s and remained close over the next twenty years until Delaney's deteriorating mental health removed him from his orbit of friends and family. Delaney (190179), a black American from Knoxville, Tennessee, spent most of his mature life as an expatriate artist in Paris. Lawrence Calcagno (191393), a white American from northern California, spent much of his peripatetic career in the United States and in Europe in search of a place to call home.But Delaney and Calcagno had many things in common. Both men committed themselves wholeheartedly to lyrical abstraction, though Delaney's work was ultimately influenced more by Claude Monet's fluid waterlily paintings than by the colorfield painters so important in Calcagno's formation as an artist. Both men shared an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of their abstract work. Calcagno's abstract 'landscapes of the mind'with their recognizable and consistent horizonsderived in part from the artist's sense of the universal, yet mysterious harmony of nature. For Delaney, abstraction gave form to the 'higher power' of light in the world, a light that, according to his close friend James Baldwin, 'held the power to illuminate, even to redeem and reconcile and heal.' Both men experienced the power of melancholia (in Delaney's case, the debilitating effects of mental illness), and both understood well the social isolation accompanying their homosexuality.
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