Portrait of Howard Swanson
1967 · Oil on canvas
39 x 31 3/4" (99.1 x 80.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Beauford Delaney
1901
WA-00003781
Harlem RenaissanceAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
9
Works in Collection
26
Assets Indexed
10
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
100%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (1)
Field Verification (7 fields)
1 cross-verified · 6 single-source
- Birth yearWikidata + Gallery· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Gallery· 92%
- LocationWikidata + Gallery· 80%
- Primary mediumGallery· 60%
- BiographyGallery· 60%
- Profile imageGallery· 60%
- Death yearGallery· 60%
Source Registry (1)
- Paula-CooperTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
About
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Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Harlem Renaissance
Medium
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Related Artists
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Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (9)
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Artwork sources (4)
9 published of 9 catalogued · 6 with image
- Art Institute Chicago3 published3 img
- MoMA3 published3 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art2 published
- The Met1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)
2 entries · 1 sources
- 1953 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1962 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
17 assets
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Relationships
25Peers & Context16
Institutional
Representation & Collections
Gallery
Gagosian
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Market
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Background
Education
Harvard University
Visual Arts
Austin-East High School
Visual Arts
Network
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