Welcome to the official website for Delilah W. Pierce (1904 to 1992) – artist, curator, educator, and advocate. Delilah is known for her fluid style, which ranged from figurative to abstract. Her colorful compositions are inspired by nature, female equality, and her travels to Europe and Africa. Pierce was revered by her peers and according to art critic Judith Means:
“The way she perceives the world, with joy and optimism, and the stunning clarity of her finely-developed aesthetic sense are integral not only to her character but also to the vivid visual textures of her work.”
Delilah had numerous solo exhibitions and exhibited in more than 150 group shows. During the course of her professional career, she participated in exhibitions with preeminent African-American artists: Elizabeth Catlett, Margaret Burroughs, Richard Dempsey, David Driskell, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee Smith, Alma Thomas, James Wells, and Charles White.
Her works were featured at:
Barnett-Aden Gallery, Cosmos Club, Corcoran Gallery, Howard University Gallery, Margaret Dickey Gallery, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Hampton Institute (University), Hampton, Virginia, Kenkeleba Gallery in New York, Old Sculpin Gallery, Edgartown, MA – Martha’s Vineyard and Cousen-Rose Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA – Martha’s Vineyard.
Her work is among the permanent collections at the prestigious National Museum of Women in the Arts, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, University of District of Columbia, Howard University, Evans Tibbs Collection, Barnett-Aden Collection, Smith-Mason Gallery of Art, and Bowie State College.
Delilah W. Pierce 
She was a true unheralded History Maker.
Please tell us your story about Delilah W. Pierce. Email wls40@icloud.com. That is the email for Wanda Spence, her Great-Niece.
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Ms. Delilah W. Pierce was a Great Person and a Great Artist. I met her in the late 1980′. She had some of her works in the Art Gallery which was located in the 1200 block Carrollsburg Place SW, in the late 1980’s. The gallery was there for a short time. Jerome C. Gray, T/A Art Sensation, specialized in African American Art Books.