Interview with Romare Bearden and Avis Berman (1980 July 31)
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content: Berman, Avis
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content: Avis Berman research material on art and artists
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content: Avis Berman research material on art and artists / Series 2: Artists and Art Workers Files / Romare Bearden
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content: 6 Sound cassettes (Two of the sound cassettes are original, Tape 1 and 2. )
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content: circa 1980
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content: Box 1, Folder 6
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Berman's interview of painter Romare Bearden was conducted 1980 July 31 in Bearden's studio, Long Island City, New York. Bearden discusses his mural commissions; his youth; his time in Paris; working out of the blues tradition; the influence of the South; and changes in his work. He recalls Constantin Brancusi, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Matisse, Duke Ellington, Stuart Davis, and others.