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Romare Howard Bearden

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Romare Howard Bearden (1911 - 1988) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina.  Romare Bearden is known for Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage.

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 Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society.  Many of his themes dealt with music.  Another strong presence in many of Bearden's works is trains.  Bearden felt that there was a commonality, or link between trains and their symbolic tie to life; he saw trains as communicating life's fluctuations and constant change.  He also saw this in jazz, so in many of his works the viewer will see images of both trains and jazz.

Bearden's use of color was also unique.  He was strongly affected by a trip he made to the Caribbean.  Because he lived in such urban, "dirty" cities as New York, Bearden was overwhelmed by the rich, vivid, "clean" colors of the tropics.  He soaked in these colors, and used them in his works to try and bring a little of that experience to his viewers back home in the city.  Through all of Bearde   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 27723 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Romare Howard Bearden

   Publications  Book References:  122
Magazine References:  38

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38 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Romare Howard Bearden
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Drawings & Watercolors, Hood Museum March 2005 MacAdam, Barbara J Yes
ARTnews Beyond Basketball January 2005 Berkow, Ira Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 2005 Editor, ARTnews Yes
Art Times Culturally Speaking December 2004 Seckel, Cornelia No
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts September 2004 Editors, American Artist Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene September 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTFORUM Fall 2004 Preview September 2004 Editors, Artforum No
Southwest Art Art Events-Texas July 2004 Osterman, Julie Yes
American Art Review Mount Holyoke College Art Museum June 2004 Doezema, Marianne Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk May 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
American Art Review Melting Pot: Art That Looks Like Am April 2004 Severens, Martha R Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene March 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Winter 2004 January 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
ARTnews Art Market January 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews Capital Gains December 2003 Protzman, Ferdinand Yes
ARTnews Reviews November 2003 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews A Game of Hopscotch September 2003 Fine, Ruth Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Walter O Evans Collection June 2003 Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes Yes
Scottsdale Life The Collectors January 2003 Cushman, Jennifer No
American Artist Dynamics of the Artist-Dealer Relat April 2001 Grant, Daniel Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene March 2001 Editors Yes
Art & Antiques Top 100 Collectors in America March 2001 Scott, Sue Leeds, Valerie Yes
ARTnews National News November 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
Art & Auction Date Book January 2000 Editors Yes
ARTnews Art Talk August 1999 Landi, Ann Yes
American Art Review The Blount Corporate Art Collection June 1999 Murphy, Carolyn Shafer Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 1999 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction Reviews September 1998 Editors Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries January 1998 Editors, Art & Auction No
American Art Review In the Eye of the Storm December 1995 Pohl, Frances Yes
ARTnews Prints September 1995 Rainwater, Robert/Eric Gibson Yes
Art & Antiques An All American Show May 1995 Loos, Ted Yes
Architectural Digest Contemporary Collage May 1995 Rosenblum, Robert Yes
ARTnews artnews NATIONAL March 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review A Graphic Odyssey June 1994 AR editors Yes
122 Book References for Romare Howard Bearden
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2011 Makholm, Kristin (Editor) Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art (Minnesota Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Fine, Ruth E The Art of Romare Bearden
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2003 Lewis, Samella African American Art and Artists 340 Yes
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
2001 Driskell, David The Other Side of Color: African-American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. 240 Yes
2001 Washington, McCleary Bunch The Art of Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual 230 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Heyman, Therese Thau Posters American Style 192 Yes
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1995 Adams, H. and Johnson, K. Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art 192 Yes
1995 Driskell, David C African American Visual Aesthetics A Postmodernist View 149 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Hansen, Trudy (others) Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 248 Yes
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Pavese, Edith American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art 160 Yes
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1991 Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra Romare Bearden The Human Condition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Studio Museum in Harlem Memory and Metaphor The Art of Romare Bearden
(Exhibition catalog)		 129 Yes
1991 Toperzer, Thomas R Romare Bearden Finding the Rhythm
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 161 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Schwartzman, Myron Romare Bearden His Life and Art 320 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Stich, Sidra Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)		 314 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Kramer, Hilton The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984 445 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Chwast, Seymour/S Heller The Art of New York 190 No
1983 Faison, S Lane The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 1983 Yes
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1981 Bearden, Romare/Carl Holty The Painter's Mind: A Study of the Relations of Structure and Space 224 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1980 Melberg, Jerald/Milton Bloch Romare Bearden 1970-1980 136 Yes
1980 Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Diamonstein, Barbaralee Inside New York's Art World 380 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Grigsby, Eugene Jr. Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society 147 No
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 North Carolina Museum of Art Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 No
1976 Willis, John Ralph Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 75 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Schwartz, Barry The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change 192 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1973 Franc, Helen M An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA 159 Yes
1972 Bearden, Romare; Harry Henderson Five Black Masters of American Art 0 Yes
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1971 Fax, Elton C Seventeen Black Artists 306 No
1971 Museum of Modern Art Romare Bearden The Prevalence of Ritual
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1970 Alston, Charles Henry; Romare Bearden; Allan Rohan Crite, et all Social Studies: The Art of Black America, Part One 0 Yes
1970 National Cent/Afro-Am Artists Afro-American Artists New York and Boston
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
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