Romare Bearden
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Romare Howard Bearden was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.
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Patchwork Quilt, cut-and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970, Museum of Modern Art
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.
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
"Baltimore Uproar" (1982) in the Upton metro station, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Romare Bearden, The Calabash, collage, 1970, Library of Congress
A plaque at Romare Bearden's home in Harlem, 2002Awards 4
Connected to Romare 6
André Leon TalleyAlso won North Carolina Award
Billy TaylorAlso won North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
Kizzmekia CorbettAlso won North Carolina Award
Etta BakerAlso won North Carolina Award for Fine Arts
Sidney BlackmerAlso won North Carolina Award
Lou DonaldsonAlso won North Carolina Award for Fine ArtsAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 1988 · aged 76
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13 languages
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