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Romare BeardenLouisiana Serenade 1979 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph1979
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Romare Bearden
Louisiana Serenade (from Jazz Series) - 1979
Print - Lithograph
Framed - 33 x 42 inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 159/175
Romare Bearden is among the preeminent artists of his generation. His powerful works represent the places where he lived and worked: the rural South; northern cities, principally Pittsburgh and New York's Harlem; and the Caribbean island of St. Martin. Religious subjects and ritual practices, jazz clubs and brothels, and history and literature are overlapping themes in his work. Throughout his career Bearden also made forays into abstraction, usually with musical associations.
Though he did not become a full-time artist until he had reached 50 years of age, Romare Bearden is today one of America’s leading painters. His art is very much a product of his own experience. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1911, Bearden migrated to New York in time to participate in the brief cultural flowering of the Harlem Renaissance. Painter Charles Alston became a close friend during that period and Fats Waller and Duke Ellington were among his earliest collectors.
Later Bearden played semi-pro baseball with the Boston Tigers, earned a degree in mathematics from New York University in 1935, and took a job as a New York City welfare caseworker during the depression to support himself (Except for army service during WWII and an interlude in Paris, Bearden kept the job until 1966 – the first year he sold enough paintings to make possible a full-time career as an artist.) He used the G.I. Bill to study philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and, after returning to New York, moonlighted as a songwriter. He composed about 20 songs, some written for Billie Holiday who was working as a receptionist in his building on 125th Street. "Seabreeze," his one big hit, was recorded by Dizzy Gillespie.
In the Sixties, Bearden began to assimilate his wealth of experience into the bright, image-rich collages now most often associated with him. They consist of bits of photos, magazine clippings, pieces of colored paper and fabric, and figurative brush strokes. Upon sustained viewing, the loosely fragmented collages lose their simplicity and take on an interpretive order. Among his favorite subjects are scenes from his childhood depicting life in the South. "I never left Charlotte except physically," says Bearden.
- Creator:Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988, American)
- Creation Year:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 43.25 in (109.86 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Rochester Hills, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2335213987872
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden was an inventive American modern artist whose unique visual style set him apart. Working with a variety of media, Bearden made paintings distinguished by a bold use of color and rich texture. His figurative, landscape and portrait prints had influences ranging from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to traditional Japanese, Chinese and African art.
Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1911. He pursued a degree in education and attended Lincoln University, Boston University and New York University. At New York University he began taking courses in art. During his time there, he served as the art editor and lead cartoonist at a journal called The Medley. To further his creative passions, Bearden attended the Art Students League of New York. From 1935 to 1937, he was the editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Afro-American.
Bearden worked as a social worker from the mid-1930s until the 1960s. He continued creating art during his evenings and weekends and began exhibiting in solo shows across the United States in the 1940s. Bearden would go on to exhibit throughout Europe.
Bearden was a prolific writer on social issues, and his words complemented his art. He was active in African American advocacy groups and helped found important community art venues and organizations like the Harlem Cultural Council in 1964 and the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1968. He also published books on art and African American art history.
Bearden earned many prestigious honors, including honorary doctorates from Davidson College, Atlanta University, Carnegie Mellon University and Pratt Institute. Bearden also received the New York City Mayor’s Award of Honor for Art and Culture in 1984 and the National Medal of Arts in 1987, presented by President Ronald Reagan. He died in New York City on March 12, 1988.
Today, Bearden's work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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