Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Bearden’s life and career prove instructive both for contemporary artists hoping to navigate the constantly ...

This intimate show of original collages by Romare Bearden will complement the sweeping exhibition From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden also on view. Bearden began working with ...

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 (1911-1988) is beloved for his large-scale collages that testify to the everyday experiences of Black Americans. They are vivid, complex and necessary works of art that are written ...

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 ...

A feeling grips collectors when they add the perfect piece to their collection. It’s a combination of pride, exaltation and achievement. They take every opportunity to show it off. Museums experience ...

All quotes from Romare Bearden and biographical information are displayed in the exhibit. The first piece of art I ever loved was “Sunday Morning Breakfast.” When I was five, my parents brought home ...

Many artists and art historians consider Romare Bearden one of America's most important and inventive artists. But he's hardly a household name. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that the National Gallery of ...

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 ...