Charles Alston
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Charles Henry "Spinky" Alston was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Ren
Alston in 1939
Alston's illustration of African-American historian Carter G. Woodson for the Office of War Information
Modern Medicine (1936) at the Harlem Hospital
Artworks Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston, compiled ca. 1942 - ca. 1945
Romare Bearden
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Romare Howard Bearden was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in N
Charles Alston
…suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage. Locals described his father as the "Booker T. Washington of Charlotte". In 1913, Anna Alston married Harry Bearden, Romare Bearden's uncle, making Charles and Romare cousins. The two Bearden families lived across the street from each other; the friendship between Romare and Charles…
Bearden in an army uniform, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944
Patchwork Quilt, cut-and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970, Museum of Modern Art
The Black American in Search of His Identity (1969) at the National Gallery of Art's showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, DC in 2022
"Baltimore Uproar" (1982) in the Upton metro station, in Baltimore, Maryland.