He became, for me, an example of courage and integrity, humility and passion.”ĭelaney ultimately introduced Baldwin to Connie Williams, the Trinidad-born owner of Calypso, a small restaurant at 146 MacDougal Street (demolished), located a block south of Washington Square Park.
In a warmer time, a less blasphemous place, he would have been recognized as my Master and I as his Pupil.
Baldwin later noted that Delaney was “…the first living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist. Delaney, who may have also been one of Baldwin’s earliest lovers, mentored Baldwin, providing him entree into rarefied circles and exposing him to jazz and art. He first stayed with modernist painter Beauford Delaney at his 181 Greene Street apartment/studio (demolished). Author and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987), born and raised in Harlem, moved to Greenwich Village in 1943.
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