Don and Beauford 2
This is the first page of Don’s article on Beauford in his Newsstand #5. The text reads:
“Beauford Delaney is an artist friend of mine. I first knew him when he lived at this important address (from which the one in London gets its fame). In this well-appointed tenement, which was a small house located below Greenwich Village, Beauford lived alone and worked in a total all out for existence. He weathered many storms with the rental agency for each month there was a new threat to tear down the building. But nothing happened except the nailing up of a new notice of demolition every now and then which Beauford began adding to his collection. His staying there for two years was a personal triumph.
He grew used to blackouts for there were never any lights, but I never heard him complain as he would show me his latest painting by candlelight. The plumbing wasn’t without fault either and gradually the reamining fixtures began to go as loot for the raiding neighborhood gangs. The winters were unthinkable things of torture. His windows had to be boarded up and paper stuffed in all the cracks. But vividly colored cloths coverd the wall and remnants of…”
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