# Joseph Delaney artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-delaney/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:53:43.831Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## Portrait

![Joseph Delaney](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Joseph_Delaney_%28artist%29.jpg)
Joseph Delaney (artist) · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Delaney_(artist)

## About Joseph Delaney

Joseph Delaney (1904–1991) is identified by international authority records as an American artist. A biographical discovery source further describes him as a Black American participant in New York's art scene during the Harlem Renaissance era and records his receipt of a Rosenwald Foundation fellowship. Those contextual details remain less firmly documented in the collected source pack than his identity and lifespan, so a specific stylistic movement should not be assigned without stronger museum or scholarly evidence. Collectors encountering the name in auction records should use the 1904–1991 dates and linked authority identifiers to distinguish him from namesakes. The National Gallery of Art maintains an artist record for Delaney, while Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, the Library of Congress, and Wikidata provide stable entity links. Together, these records establish a reliable identity foundation, although fuller discussion of his media, subjects, and artistic development requires additional work-level sources.

## Common works and media

The current source pack does not establish which media, subjects, or work types most commonly appear under Joseph Delaney's name at auction. Paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, or other categories should not be presented as characteristic without verified museum or lot-level documentation. Each candidate work should be classified from its own catalogue description and physical evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates Joseph Delaney with 193 auction-directory records, but the available source pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions, media, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, sale dates, or realized prices. No price direction, category mix, scarcity claim, or liquidity conclusion can therefore be supported here. For appraisal, first match the object to the American artist born in 1904 and deceased in 1991, then assess its attribution, date, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, signature, and any edition information. Comparable sales should be drawn from documented works that are genuinely similar, not from the directory record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6282568
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/78495346/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/190638591
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.8273.html
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500063200
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Delaney_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-delaney/