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.
* 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)&nbsp;– 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)&nbsp;– 1970, Museum of Modern Art
*Pepper Jelly Lady (color lithograph), Minnesota Museum of American Art
* *Piano Lesson* (painting)&nbsp;– Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, inspired the play The Piano Lesson
* *Pittsburgh Memory* (collage)&nbsp;– 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*&nbsp;– 1967, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
* *Rocket to the Moon* (collage)
* *She-Ba*
* *Showtime* (painting)
* *Soul Three* (collage)&nbsp;– 1968, Dallas Museum of Art
* *Summertime* (collage)&nbsp;– 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.&nbsp;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