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Untitled
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Like Delaney's Greene Street of 1940, this untitled work is highly emblematic.
It also ranks as the most abstract of the artist's works from that decade. The symbols depicted
(i.e., heart, eye, star, and white dove) enter the picture on streams of color and light and then
dissipate, pushing darkness to the outer limits of the composition. It is not possible to confirm
the meaning of the work, yet the painting carries with it an anecdote, passed forward by the former
owner, to whom Delaney gave the painting when she was visiting Paris. The artist told her that his
inspiration had been the stained-glass window of a church. This work was discovered at a consignment
shop in the Twin Cities metropolitan area approximately six years ago.
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