A collage piece, "Captivity and Resistance," by Romare Bearden, commissioned by the African American Museum in Philadelphia in 1976. The African American Museum in Philadelphia on Thursday is hosting ...

When harassment from a white mob forced the family of renowned artist Romare Bearden to flee their Charlotte home for Harlem in 1915, he was only four years old. In a new biography, Romare Bearden in ...

Romare Bearden in his Long Island City studio. (Photo by Frank Stewart / Courtesy of Oxford University Press) Mary Schmidt Campbell begins An American Odyssey, her formidable new biography of Romare ...

Mary Schmidt Campbell’s definitive and immersive biography — “An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (Oxford University Press; $34.95)” — explores the artist’s relationship between ...

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 ...

In spring 1977, Romare Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” opened at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in New York’s Upper East Side. Bearden, already considered a major presence in American art, used collage to ...

The Studio Museum in Harlem is presenting From Now: A Collection in Context, a shifting thematic installation drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions ...

Charlotte likes to associate itself with artist Romare Bearden. He was born in the city in 1911, though only lived here three years. Bearden was considered one of the nation’s preeminent artists when ...

Romare Bearden’s long and varied career has generated a weighty shelf of art-historical scholarship, but various aspects of his life remain elusive. In May 2011, The New Criterion published the ...

A feeling grips collectors when they add the perfect piece to their collection. It’s a combination of pride, exaltation and achievement. They take every opportunity to show it off. Museums experience ...

Received a John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation grant to write a book on the history of African-American art. The book, A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present, was coauthored ...