... African American painting modernism portraiture Alberto Giacometti James Lord ...

... of physical likeness. Evidence suggests this unusual handling may have been triggered by the influence of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a prominent artist of Delaney’s acquaintance. The Delaney bust’s distinctive linear structure and attenuated proportions—absent in earlier portraits of Baldwin from 1965...

..., and absence of physical likeness. Evidence suggests this unusual handling may have been triggered by the influence of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a prominent artist of Delaney’s acquaintance. The Delaney bust’s distinctive linear structure and attenuated proportions—absent in earlier portraits...