Beauford Delaney’s Greene Street combines the artist’s love of jazz, his nightlife experiences, and his everyday life while living on Greene Street in Greenwich Village. Jazz spurred a strong artistic shift at midcentury: artists began to create more dynamic, expressive, and visually explosive works. Layered, somehow harmonic, yet visually dissonant, this mishmash of dynamic shapes and colorful palettes forms Delaney’s geometric representation of his neighborhood.