Artist

Romare Bearden

born Charlotte, NC 1911-died New York City 1988
Also known as
  • Romare H. Bearden
  • Romare Howard Bearden
Born
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • St. Martin
Biography

Born in North Carolina; studied in the U.S. and in Paris; lived mostly in New York City. Dynamic artist who created archetypal figures of African Americans and others by combining different kinds of images, using oil paint or collage materials.

Charles Sullivan, ed. American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)



Exhibitions

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African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
April 27, 2012September 3, 2012
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond presents a selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists
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African American Art in the 20th Century
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is home to one of the most significant collections of African American art in the world.

Related Books

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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
In eighty-eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O’Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann—all illustrating the complexity and energy of a distinctly American modernism.