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 ...

Bearden became a master of collage, an art form as complex, fragmented and many-layered as his life. And in a body of work that is unique in American art, he made collage a medium for celebrating his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So you have this layered experience, which is what collage is.” romare bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1911. His parents had both been to college, and in the face of menacing Jim ...

Naima Green discusses growing up in Harlem and embracing the discomfort of a self-portrait. By Yaniya Lee As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented ...