![]() ![]() DuBois, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and W.C. ![]() Branson offered to give him lessons in painting if Beauford would help him mix paints and help out in the studio. Delaney did very well, and in 1924, when Beauford was a young man, his friends, including Lloyd Branson and another painter named Hugh Tyler (uncle of the writer James Agee) helped pay his way to study art in a school in Boston.Īt the end of the Harlem Renaissance period, Delaney became known for his portraits of several major figures, including W.E.B. He impressed the elderly Lloyd Branson, Knoxville’s most successful artist of the time. As a teenager, he found work as a sign painter. He always loved to draw, even in school, and one of his early works was a portrait of Charles Cansler, then the principal of Austin High. ![]() His father was a barber and also a Methodist preacher. He was born in Knoxville in a small wooden house on East Vine Street. Here are brief bios on some of Knoxville’s most talented artists.īeauford is the best-known artist who ever lived in Knoxville. Knoxville has a rich history of talented artists who were born here or made pivotal works before moving on to a national stage or international stage. ![]()
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