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“[Beauford] Delaney repeatedly turned to art to annihilate the boundaries of fixed identity in ways that were not simply aesthetic…but also spiritual. Such ecstatic annihilations ran between his purely abstract paintings and his portraits, animating his figurative and non-figurative work alike."[1] —Mary Campbell

“[I] have worked terribly hard…and much has sundered and exploded, but now it coalesces with lava-like smoke and fluid color, sometimes a veritable flame, other times subdued essences…yes, I am again painting in my old feeling—tense, difficult, but compulsive, and I love it.”[2] …