Beauford Delaney, She Ain’t Getting Up, Mrs. Parks, 1970, Oil on canvas, Collection of Etienne Boillot
All images © Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator
Mary Campbell, associate professor of American art history, presented a virtual lecture as part of the Knoxville Museum of Art Cocktails & Conversations series, an education program bringing new art and new ideas to Knoxville.
In her presentation, I Will Not Be Moved, Campbell explores the works related to Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks in the exhibition Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door, which opened last winter in conjunction with the UT Humanities Center’s symposium, In a Speculative Light. Professor Campbell entertains the idea of Parks as a type of self-portrait of Delaney and a way for him to express his inner thoughts.