Mary Schmidt Campbell’s definitive and immersive biography — “An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (Oxford University Press; $34.95)” — explores the artist’s relationship between ...

A collage piece, "Captivity and Resistance," by Romare Bearden, commissioned by the African American Museum in Philadelphia in 1976. The African American Museum in Philadelphia on Thursday is hosting ...

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 ...

When harassment from a white mob forced the family of renowned artist Romare Bearden to flee their Charlotte home for Harlem in 1915, he was only four years old. In a new biography, Romare Bearden in ...

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 ...

Romare Bearden in his Long Island City studio. (Photo by Frank Stewart / Courtesy of Oxford University Press) Mary Schmidt Campbell begins An American Odyssey, her formidable new biography of Romare ...

With certain exhibitions, this writer finds himself in a position not so much to “review” them as to recall his With certain exhibitions, this writer finds himself in a position not so much to “review ...

Romare Bearden’s long and varied career has generated a weighty shelf of art-historical scholarship, but various aspects of his life remain elusive. In May 2011, The New Criterion published the ...

In spring 1977, Romare Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” opened at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in New York’s Upper East Side. Bearden, already considered a major presence in American art, used collage to ...

A group of Charlotte arts advocates wants the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board to name a school for Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden. Bearden was a prominent 20th-century artist. He is known for ...

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 ...

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 ...