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Romare Bearden, American, 1911-1988, Out Chorus, 1979-80, etching and aquatint, 12 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (image), Edition 200.© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection joins institutions across the country as part of a centennial tribute honoring artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988). The Museum’s exhibition, From Process to …
By Gail Gregg Posted 07/19/12 Exhibitions, concerts, artists’ tributes, and even a postage stamp are part of the centennial tribute honoring Romare Bearden The sight was a curator’s dream. Carla Hanzal, curator of contemporary art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, looked in at her exhibition “Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections” on closing day …
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Born on September 2, 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Romare Bearden was a multi-talented artist and one of America’s foremost collagists. Bearden’s family moved to New York City in 1914 in an attempt to distance themselves from Jim Crow’s “separate but equal” laws. Bearden initially studied at Lincoln University but transferred to Boston University where …
Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing …
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Romare Bearden’s life was full of movement. Born in 1912 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden’s family moved shortly thereafter to Harlem where their apartment was a popular meeting place for intellectuals and artists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Aaron Douglas, and Charles Alston during the Renaissance. In 1925, Bearden moved to Pittsburgh where he eventually graduated …
Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, …
Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing …
Romare Bearden Art Quotes – (6 quotes) About the Artwork African-American artist Romare Bearden’s “Jammin’ at the Savoy” is an impassioned celebration of jazz’s revolutionary style. The work’s innovative spatial composition and spontaneous bursts of color, harmonies and dissonances replicate the music’s improvisational rhythms. Bearden (1911 …
Romare Bearden, the 20th Century master of collages capturing the African American experience, has long been a popular artist. Now everyone can have a tiny bit of his expressive art with a new series of stamps to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Service announced Tuesday the stamps will be available September …
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By Culturekiosque Staff NEW YORK, 27 MARCH 2011 — The American artist Romare Bearden’s oeuvre of more than 2,000 known works in many media reveals the diverse influences of earlier Western masters ranging from Duccio, Giotto, and de Hooch to Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, as well as his fascination with African art (particularly sculpture, masks, …
by: DC Moore DC Moore’s new exhibition, Series and Sequences, explores the idea of variations on a theme in the work of four twentieth-century artists who used related imagery or returned to similar imagery over time. Through a select group of paintings and drawings, the exhibit reveals some of the many ways in which artists …
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A startling vision greets visitors to “The Art of Romare Bearden,” the awe-inspiring retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. At the airy mezzanine entrance to the show, a photograph of Bearden’s remarkable 1972 collage, “The Block,” has been blown up to the size of a mural, supersizing patchworked faces and Harlem …
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