Romare Bearden

Born, 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Died, 1988

Romare Bearden was the subject of a feature written by Robert L. Douglas - “From Blues to Protest/Assertiveness | The Art of Romare Bearden and John Coltrane” - for the International Review of African American Art, Volume 8 Number 2. This magazine featured a number of reproductions of Bearden’s work. These were:

Mother and Child, n d, lithograph (on the cover of this issue)
Cinque, 1979, seriagraph
Jazz 1930s: Chicago, collage
Mountain of the Moon
Untitled, Number Two, 1964
Pittsburgh Memories, 1964
Mysteries, 1964, collage
The Dove
Byzantine Dimension

Romare Bearden’s Black Manhattan, 1969 was reproduced in Keith Piper’s Relocating the Remains catalogue, the main text of which was written by Kobena Mercer. The chapter in which Bearden’s work appears is “Art’s Histories and Culture’s Geographies: 1979 - 1985”.

Recent scholarship on Romare Bearden includes, “Romare Bearden, 1964: Collage as Kunstwollen”, written Kobena Mercer. This was an illustrated text, in Cosmopolitan Modernisms, inIVA and MIT Press, 2005, part of Kobena Mercer’s Annotating Art’s Histories series.

A work by Bearden, The Prevalence of Ritual: Conjur Woman, 1964, collage, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 “, appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan Modernisms.

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Book relating to a publication, 1997

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Article relating to an exhibition, 2005

»  International Review of African American Art Volume 8 Number 2

Magazine relating to a publication, 1988

»  Relocating the Remains

Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1997