Romare Bearden, “Watching the Good Trains Go By,” 1964. Collage of various papers on cardboard, 34.9 x 42.9 cm (13 3/4 x 16 7/8) The artist often framed his compositions to resemble what he recalled ...

Several Charlotte neighbors met in Romare Bearden Park Saturday afternoon, protesting what the Trump administration says ...

Dozens of people gathered at Romare Bearden Park in Uptown Charlotte Saturday to protest U.S. military action in Venezuela, ...

Romare Bearden’s ingenious collages of Black life in the United States have appeared in museum surveys and art-history textbooks, been printed on postage stamps, and sold for seven figures, but one ...

The Studio Museum in Harlem is presenting From Now: A Collection in Context, a shifting thematic installation drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions ...

Romare Bearden and family in Charlotte, circa 1920. Front row, from left: great-grandfather Henry Kennedy, Romare at age 8 or 9, great-grandmother Rosa Catherine Kennedy. Back row, from left: aunt ...

Romare Bearden, “Baptism, 28/50” (1975), serigraph on aper, 32 x 45 inches (image); 36 1/2 x 49 inches (paper), edition of 50 (all images © Estate of Romare ...

Romare Bearden was an artist, writer, arts advocate, social worker, humanist, composer, and cat lover. While Bearden is known first and foremost for his collages which frequently depicted scenes of ...

How do you judge a park? Most of us love to say we love parks. But not all parks win our hearts, or our visits. The question for uptown Charlotte’s new Romare Bearden Park is whether it will become a ...

As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored. By Ash Wu Once she was cast out of the United ...

Jeffrey Brown reviews the artistic achievements of Romare Bearden, which are celebrated in an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In his 1964 collage called ...