Romare Bearden’s ingenious collages of Black life in the United States have appeared in museum surveys and art-history textbooks, been printed on postage stamps, and sold for seven figures, but one ...

Romare Bearden was an artist, writer, arts advocate, social worker, humanist, composer, and cat lover. While Bearden is known first and foremost for his collages which frequently depicted scenes of ...

A new book on Charlotte native Romare Bearden provided a number of unexpected details about the artist’s life, family and work. Here are 15 of them, from Glenda Gilmore’s “Romare Bearden in the ...

Romare Bearden, “Watching the Good Trains Go By,” 1964. Collage of various papers on cardboard, 34.9 x 42.9 cm (13 3/4 x 16 7/8) The artist often framed his compositions to resemble what he recalled ...

All quotes from Romare Bearden and biographical information are displayed in the exhibit. The first piece of art I ever loved was “Sunday Morning Breakfast.” When I was five, my parents brought home ...

Romare Bearden and family in Charlotte, circa 1920. Front row, from left: great-grandfather Henry Kennedy, Romare at age 8 or 9, great-grandmother Rosa Catherine Kennedy. Back row, from left: aunt ...