A new book on Charlotte native Romare Bearden provided a number of unexpected details about the artist’s life, family and work. Here are 15 of them, from Glenda Gilmore’s “Romare Bearden in the ...

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 ...

She was mother to one of the stars of African-American art, but she also nurtured an entire generation of artists and civil rights advocates. Now her legacy is finally coming into focus. When Bessye ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...