Beauford DELANEY [American] (1901-1979) Landscape, 1966 Watercolor. Signed, dated and located "Istanbul Turkey" lower right. 49 x 64 cm In July-August 1966, Beauford Delaney visited his friend James Baldwin in Istanbul. David Leeming describes this first visit to Istanbul in Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney. He quotes a letter Delaney wrote to Henry Miller in July 1966: "Being in Turkey is more exciting to me than being in Venice... there are ancient essences... Time and light are beyond my power to resist".