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James Baldwin

Portrait Gallery

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Object Details

Artist

Beauford Delaney, 1901 - 1979

Sitter

James Arthur Baldwin, 2 Aug 1924 - 1 Dec 1987

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Date

1963

Object number

NPG.98.25

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Type

Drawing

Medium

Pastel on paper

Dimensions

Image/Sheet: 64.8 x 49.8 cm (25 1/2 x 19 5/8")
Frame: 95.3 x 80 x 3.8 cm (37 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1 1/2")

Place

France\Île-de-France\Ville de Paris, Départment de\Paris

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

James Arthur Baldwin: Male
James Arthur Baldwin: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
James Arthur Baldwin: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist
James Arthur Baldwin: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Novelist
James Arthur Baldwin: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Playwright
James Arthur Baldwin: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Essayist
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm43fbb7a4c-dab0-4df1-8228-636aa50e77dd

Record ID

npg_NPG.98.25

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