Artist Delaney, Joseph
     nationality American
     birth-death 1904-1991
Creation date 1941-1943
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 x 25 in.
Location American Scene Gallery
Credit line Gift of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Indianapolis Chapter and Mr. Kim Anderson and the Estate of Hermine Floch by exchange
Accession number 2003.51

Gallery Label

Delaney combines aggressive brushwork, exaggerated poses and a tendency toward caricature to suggest the group's animated conversation.

Delaney is shown with his back to the viewer talking to a man believed to be the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

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apartment, fire escape, hats, men, sadness, talking, window
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