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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

Let’s begin with two forms of Black conservatism. One is social and the other is artistic. For an excellent description of social conservatism, read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2008 essay, “This Is How We Lost ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was startling to look around "The Art of Romare Bearden" and realize that this was a historic first: the National Gallery's first retrospective of work by an African American artist. Last night's ...

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 ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter New York City’s sprawling public ...

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 ...