Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (, ) (  bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli September dabaayii dali ,yuuni 1911 ka o kani silimiingoli  March bɛɣu pinaayi dali,  yuuni 1988) o daa nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumda, ka lahi nyɛ sasabira,  n ti pahi yilisaabira. 


Published works
Lil Dan, the Drummer Boy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
coauthor:

 with Harry Henderson, Six Black Masters of American Art, New York: Doubleday, 1972
 with Carl Holty, The Painter's Mind, Taylor & Francis, originally published in 1969
 with Harry Henderson, of A History of African-American Artists. From 1792 to The Present, New York: Pantheon Books 1993

O tuma shee kpaŋmaŋ pina
Founded the 306 Group, a club for Harlem artists
In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
In 1972 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters
 In 1978, Bearden was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member
In 1987, the year before he died, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Romare Bearden on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books. .
 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970
 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1973
 Medal of the State of North Carolina, 1976
 Frederick Douglas Medal, New York Urban League, 1978
 James Weldon Johnson Award, Atlanta Chapter of NAACP, 1978

 O nucheeni tuma nima 
 Abstract (painting)
 Baltimore Uproar, 1982, Upton–Avenue Market station
 The Blues (collage) – 1975, Honolulu Museum of Art
 The Calabash (collage) – 1970, Library of Congress
 Carolina Shout (collage) This is eponymous with the musical National Gallery of Art Exhibition, Romare Bearden Revealed, by Branford Marsalis.                            – The Mint Museum of Art
 Common Man, 1963
 The Dove, 1964
 Falling Star (painting)
 The Family, 1941
 The Family, 1975
 Fisherman (painting)
 "Jammin' at the Savoy" (painting)
 The Lantern (painting)
 Last of the Blue Devils
Madonna and Child, (collage) – ca. 1968-1970, Minnesota Museum of American Art
 Morning of the Rooster
 Patchwork Quilt (collage) – 1970, Museum of Modern Art
Pepper Jelly Lady (color lithograph), Minnesota Museum of American Art
 Piano Lesson (painting) – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, inspired the play The Piano Lesson
 Pittsburgh Memory (collage) – 1964, Collection of w, New York. Used as album art for The Roots album ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin.
 Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings (collage)
 Recollection Pond (tapestry) – 1974–1990, 7 plus 1 artist's proof/8 made, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Port Authority of NY & NJ; York College, City University of New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Return of the Prodigal Son – 1967, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
 Rocket to the Moon (collage)
 She-Ba
 Showtime (painting)
 Soul Three (collage) – 1968, Dallas Museum of Art
 Summertime (collage) – 1967, Saint Louis Art Museum
 The Woodshed
 Wrapping it up at the Lafayette

Selected collections
 Pérez Art Museum Miami, Fla.
 Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
 Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
 Museum of Modern Art
 Whitney Museum of American Art

Lihimi yaha
African-American art
List of Federal Art Project artists

Kundivvihhira 
Din tu baŋbu 

 Works cited 
Bearden, Romare, Jerald L. Melberg, and Albert Murray. Romare Bearden, 1970-1980: An Exhibition. Charlotte, N.C.: Mint Museum, 1980.




Witkovsky, Matthew S. 1989. "Experience vs. Theory: Romare Bearden and Abstract Expressionism". Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fiction Issue pp. 257–282.
 [Provides biography of mother, Bessye J. Bearden]

 Dinna mali karimbu 
Price, Sally and Richard Price. Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 

External links

The Romare Bearden Foundation website
The Art of Romare Bearden at the National Gallery of Art, Washington 
Chicago Tribune: A deeper look at an artist who refused to be white
Marshall Arts presents Romare Bearden
Bearden Foundation biography
Romare Bearden Images: Hollis Taggart Galleries
"Romare Bearden: The Music in His Art, A Pictorial Odyssey" – by Ronald David Jackson, video, 2005
Romare Bearden Artwork Examples on AskART.
A finding aid to the Romare Bearden papers, 1937-1982, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Columbus Museum of Art  Bearden's 1967 collage and mixed media piece La Primavera (click on picture for larger image)
Conjuring Bearden Exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art
Romare Bearden's public artwork at Westchester Square-East Tremont Avenue, commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit. 
The Bearden Project from the Studio Museum Harlem
Romare Bearden "The Storyteller," Art and Antiques, October 2012 
Romare Bearden, "A Griot for a Global Village", The New York Times, 2011
Romare Bearden, "The Art of Romare Bearden Opens at the High Museum," ArtDaily, October 2012 
"Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, September 22, 2015
Romare Bearden at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN



Category:1911 births
Category:1988 deaths
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Category:United States National Medal of Arts recipients
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Category:20th-century American printmakers
Category:Artists from Charlotte, North Carolina
Category:Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) alumni
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Category:Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni
Category:Baseball players from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Category:African-American printmakers
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Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
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