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Virtual Cocktails & Conversation

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

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.