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
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.
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans, as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was
Romare Bearden
…In 1987, the year before he died, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Romare Bearden on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970…
100 Greatest African Americans