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 ...

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 ...

In the early weeks of 1969, protesters gathered before the entrances of New York City's major art museums to complain about the institutions' treatment of African-American artists. The public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many critics rank Romare Bearden among the most important American artists of the 20 th century. A new touring exhibit coming to the Frick Pittsburgh explores his social activism and touches on his ...

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 ...

Received a John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation grant to write a book on the history of African-American art. The book, A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present, was coauthored ...