American Modern Art

ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 – 1988) RECOLLECTION POND (Gelburd/Rosenberg GG#28) Color lithograph (off set) signed and numbered AP /9 /75 in pencil. Image 10 x 13 3/4 inches, sheet 11 7/8 x 17 inches. In good condition. Original 15 cent Oliver Wendell Holmes stamps used to hinge the print to the mat still resent in the upper corners. Minute trace of darkening around image. Mylar corners holding print in place. BELOW FROM THE ROMARE BEARDEN WEBSITE: Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. Bearden was also a celebrated humanist, as demonstrated by his lifelong support of young, emerging artists. Romare Bearden began college at Lincoln University, transferred to Boston University and completed his studies at New York University (NYU), graduating with a degree in education. While at NYU, Bearden took extensive courses in art and was a lead cartoonist and then art editor for the monthly journal The Medley. He had also been art director of Beanpot, the student humor magazine of Boston University. Bearden published many journal covers during his university years and the first of numerous texts he would write on social and artistic issues. He also attended the Art Students League in New York and later, the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1935, Bearden became a weekly editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Afro-American, which he continued doing until 1937. After joining the Harlem Artists Guild, Bearden embarked on his lifelong study of art, gathering inspiration from Western masters ranging from Duccio, Giotto and de Hooch to Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse, as well as from African art (particularly sculpture, masks and textiles), Byzantine mosaics, Japanese prints and Chinese landscape paintings. From the mid-1930s through 1960s, Bearden was a social worker with the New York City Department of Social Services, working on his art at night and on weekends. His success as an artist was recognized with his first solo exhibition in Harlem in 1940 and his first solo show in Washington, DC, in 1944. Bearden was a prolific artist whose works were exhibited during his lifetime throughout the United States and Europe. His collages, watercolors, oils, photomontages and prints are imbued with visual metaphors from his past in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Harlem and from a variety of historical, literary and musical sources. In 1954, Bearden married Nanette Rohan, with whom he spent the rest of his life. In the early 1970s, he and Nanette established a second residence on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, his wife's ancestral home, and some of his later work reflected the island's lush landscapes. Among his many friends, Bearden had close associations with such distinguished artists, intellectuals and musicians as James Baldwin, Stuart Davis, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison...

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Mother and Child (from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness) Year: 1971 Medium: Silkscreen with Pho...

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Out Chorus Year: 1979-80 Medium: Photoetching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 163/200 Image Size: 12 x 16 inches Paper Size: 22 x 30 i...

Artist: Romare Bearden Portfolio: Prevalence of Ritual Title: Delilah Year: 1974 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Paper Size: 40 x 32 inches Frame: 44 ...

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Conjunction Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 173/300 Image Size: 19 x 15 inches Size: 28 in...

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Martin Luther King, Jr., Mountain Top Year: 1968 Medium: Color Screenprint on Paper, signed and dedicated in pen on matting bel...

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Dreams of Exile (Green Snake) Year: 1971 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 17/100 Image: 21.5 x 16.5 i...

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Conversation Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 1/175 Image: 17.75 x 24.75 inches Paper size: 21.5 x 28.25 inches Fra...

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Out Chorus Year: 1979-80 Medium: Photoetching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 190/200 Image Size: 12 x 16 inches Paper Size: 22 x 30 i...

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Louisiana Serenade (From the Jazz Series) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 171/175 Paper...

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Slave Ship Year: 1972 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered pencil Edition: 3/144 Image Size: 28 x 18 inches Paper Size: 35 x 24 inches

Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Conjunction Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 173/300 Image Size: 19 x 15 inches Size: 28 in...