The walls of the Museum of African American Art in Tampa are lined with the works of many well-known artists. Among them is Romare Bearden. Bearden's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum ...

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 ...

Bearden became an active advocate during the 1960's Civil Rights Movement and the focus of his work shifted to reflecting the spirit and conscience of African-Americans during this crucial era in ...

The first solo show the National Gallery of Art has given to an African-American, “The Art of Romare Bearden” is, on the whole, a joyous thing, with uncorked racial pride on one side and buttoned-up, ...

Bearden became an active advocate during the 1960's Civil Rights Movement and the focus of his work shifted to reflecting the spirit and conscience of African-Americans during this crucial era in ...

Many artists and art historians consider Romare Bearden one of America's most important and inventive artists. But he's hardly a household name. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that the National Gallery of ...

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 ...

The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia is going big for its first major exhibition since moving into the Leigh Street Armory building this spring. A collection of 54 pieces from one ...

DRAWING HIS inspiration from such disparate sources as ecclesiastical stained glass and the African American quiltmaking tradition; from cubism and surrealism; from documentary photography and girlie ...

Romare Bearden (1911-88) was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C., but he came of age in Harlem. His life, like his art – a mixture of Southern mysticism and urban congestion, high and low culture, ...