Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (/ˈroʊməriː/, ROH-mə-ree) ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli September dabaayii dali ,yuuni 1911 ka o kani silimiingoli March bɛɣu pinaayi dali, yuuni 1988) o daa nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumda, ka lahi nyɛ sasabira, n ti pahi yilisaabira.

Bearden (right) discussing his painting Cotton Workers with Pvt. Charles H. Alston, his first art teacher and cousin, in 1944. Both Bearden and Alston were members of the 372nd Infantry Regiment stationed in New York City.

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The Black American in Search of His Identity (1969) at the National Gallery of Art's showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, DC in 2022

Published works

• Lil Dan, the Drummer Boy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
• coauthor:

• with Harry Henderson, Six Black Masters of American Art, New York: Doubleday, 1972
• with Carl Holty, The Painter's Mind, Taylor & Francis, originally published in 1969
• with Harry Henderson, of A History of African-American Artists. From 1792 to The Present, New York: Pantheon Books 1993

O tuma shee kpaŋmaŋ pina

• Founded the 306 Group, a club for Harlem artists
• In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• In 1972 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters
• In 1978, Bearden was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member
• In 1987, the year before he died, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts
• In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Romare Bearden on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970
• Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1973
• Medal of the State of North Carolina, 1976
• Frederick Douglas Medal, New York Urban League, 1978
• James Weldon Johnson Award, Atlanta Chapter of NAACP, 1978

O nucheeni tuma nima

• Abstract (painting)
• Baltimore Uproar, 1982, Upton–Avenue Market station
• The Blues (collage) – 1975, Honolulu Museum of Art
• The Calabash (collage) – 1970, Library of Congress
• Carolina Shout (collage) This is eponymous with the musical National Gallery of Art Exhibition, Romare Bearden Revealed, by Branford Marsalis. – The Mint Museum of Art
• Common Man, 1963
• The Dove, 1964
• Falling Star (painting)
• The Family, 1941
• The Family, 1975
• Fisherman (painting)
• "Jammin' at the Savoy" (painting)
• The Lantern (painting)
• Last of the Blue Devils
• Madonna and Child, (collage) – ca. 1968-1970, Minnesota Museum of American Art
• Morning of the Rooster
• Patchwork Quilt (collage) – 1970, Museum of Modern Art
• Pepper Jelly Lady (color lithograph), Minnesota Museum of American Art
• Piano Lesson (painting) – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, inspired the play The Piano Lesson
• Pittsburgh Memory (collage) – 1964, Collection of w, New York. Used as album art for The Roots album ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin.
• Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings (collage)
• Recollection Pond (tapestry) – 1974–1990, 7 plus 1 artist's proof/8 made, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Port Authority of NY & NJ; York College, City University of New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Return of the Prodigal Son – 1967, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Rocket to the Moon (collage)
• She-Ba
• Showtime (painting)
• Soul Three (collage) – 1968, Dallas Museum of Art
• Summertime (collage) – 1967, Saint Louis Art Museum
• The Woodshed
• Wrapping it up at the Lafayette

Selected collections

• Pérez Art Museum Miami, Fla.
• Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
• Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
• Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
• Museum of Modern Art
• Whitney Museum of American Art

Lihimi yaha

• African-American art
• List of Federal Art Project artists

Kundivvihhira

Din tu baŋbu

Works cited

• Bearden, Romare, Jerald L. Melberg, and Albert Murray. Romare Bearden, 1970-1980: An Exhibition. Charlotte, N.C.: Mint Museum, 1980.
• Brown, Kevin (1995). Romare Bearden. New York: Chelsea House. ISBN 0-7910-1119-4. OCLC 29878239.
• East End/East Liberty Historical Society (16 January 2008). Pittsburgh's East Liberty Valley. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-3574-2.
• Romare Bearden; Ruth Fine; Jacqueline Francis (2011). Romare Bearden, American Modernist. National Gallery of Art. ISBN 978-0-300-12161-2.
• Romare Bearden; Ruth Fine; Mary Lee Corlett; National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (2003). The Art of Romare Bearden. National Gallery of Art. ISBN 978-0-89468-302-2.
• Greene, Carroll (1971). Romare Bearden: the prevalence of ritual. New York: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-87070-251-3. OCLC 135988.
• Romare Bearden Foundation. Romare Bearden Foundation Biography.
• Vaughn, William (2000). Encyclopedia of Artists. Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-521572-9.
• Witkovsky, Matthew S. 1989. "Experience vs. Theory: Romare Bearden and Abstract Expressionism". Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fiction Issue pp. 257–282.
• Yenser, Thomas, ed. (1932). Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America (Third ed.). Who's Who in Colored America, Brooklyn, New York. [Provides biography of mother, Bessye J. Bearden]

Dinna mali karimbu

• Price, Sally and Richard Price. Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. ISBN 0-8122-3948-2

External links

• Media related to Romare Bearden at Wikimedia Commons
• The Romare Bearden Foundation website
• The Art of Romare Bearden at the National Gallery of Art, Washington Archived 2016-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Chicago Tribune: A deeper look at an artist who refused to be white
• Marshall Arts presents Romare Bearden Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Bearden Foundation biography
• Romare Bearden Images: Hollis Taggart Galleries
• "Romare Bearden: The Music in His Art, A Pictorial Odyssey" – by Ronald David Jackson, video, 2005
• Romare Bearden Artwork Examples on AskART.
• A finding aid to the Romare Bearden papers, 1937-1982, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Columbus Museum of Art Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine Bearden's 1967 collage and mixed media piece La Primavera (click on picture for larger image)
• Conjuring Bearden Exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art
• Romare Bearden's public artwork at Westchester Square-East Tremont Avenue, commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit. Archived 2022-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
• The Bearden Project from the Studio Museum Harlem
• Romare Bearden "The Storyteller," Art and Antiques, October 2012 Archived Silimin gɔli April 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
• Romare Bearden, "A Griot for a Global Village", The New York Times, 2011
• Romare Bearden, "The Art of Romare Bearden Opens at the High Museum," ArtDaily, October 2012 Archived Silimin gɔli January 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
• "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, September 22, 2015
• Romare Bearden at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN