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Romare Bearden Art

American, 1911-1988

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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Artist: Romare Bearden
Tenor Sermon (GG#75), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Tenor Sermon (GG#75) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24.75 x 34...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Brass Section, Jamming at Minton's (GG#72), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Brass Section, Jamming at Minton's (GG#72) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 23.5 x 33 inches Co...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Louisiana Serenade (GG#77), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Louisiana Serenade (GG#77) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24. x 33.75 inches Condition: Excel...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Out Chorus, Rhythm Section (GG#70), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Out Chorus, Rhythm Section (GG#70) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24 x 33.25 inches Condition...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Bopping at the Birdland (GG#74), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Bopping at the Birdland (GG#74) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24 x 33.25 inches Condition: E...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Introduction for a Blues Queen (GG#71), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Introduction for a Blues Queen (GG#71) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24 x 35.50 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist. Notes: Published by London Arts Group, Detroit. ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collages and assemblages mixed with over-paint, and is highly regarded as one of the century's most inventive print makers, in a league with Charles White and Jacob Lawrence and in the line of Picasso, Braque and Robert Rauschenberg. Due to this achievement, Bearden remains one of the most influential artists of his time. His childhood memories and art historical influences are blended and transformed to create an original and exciting narrative on African-American history...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Mourning Wool Tapestry
By Romare Bearden
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Romare Bearden Mourning ~ Hand Woven Textile - 1980 Textile - Tapestry   49'' x 35'' in Hand-made Wool Tapestry made in Tabriz style.
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1980s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Wool

MECKLENBURG AUTUMN Signed Lithograph, Black Women Portrait, African Mask, Quilt
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
MECKLENBURG AUTUMN is an original limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175 by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. Almost fluorescent yellow orange sets the background for Mecklenberg Autumn, an intriguing collage portrait of two black women...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Mecklenburg Autumn
By Romare Bearden
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Romare Bearden Mecklenburg Autumn - 1979 Print - Lithograph on Somerset paper 21" x 29" inches Edition: Signed in pencil and marked from 107/175 Framed 30" x 34" inches Romare Beard...
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1980s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175 by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. FALLING STAR presents a visual memory from Bearden's childhood in Mecklenburg County North Carolina expressed as a modern collage portrait depicting a black woman set in a nostalgic Southern domestic interior. FALLING STAR's main focus is a black woman standing on the right drinking from a blue and white teacup...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

African Royalty
By Romare Bearden
Located in New York, NY
Romare Bearden African Royalty, ca. 1964 Graphite, watercolor, ink, photomontage and paper collage Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed on the top right corner recto. Also bears original information card from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in die-cut window verso of frame, as well as the exhibition label from the Nassau Museum of Art Unique Framed This majestic early Romare Bearden graphite, watercolor ink, photomontage and paper collage - "African Royalty" - was recently included in the acclaimed exhibition, "Songs Without Words: The Art of Music, November 20, 2021 – March 6, 2022" at the Nassau Museum in New York. (see attached installation photographs) It is from the Estate of Alma LeBrecht and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. (LeBrecht was a longtime drawing instructor at the MFA). The verso of the work bears the original documentation card from the museum noting this is Study No. 1 for a proposed lithograph, and indicates the proposed measurements. "African Royalty" was created during the same period as Bearden’s celebrated work “Watching the Good Train Go By” – a photomontage – i.e. a collage that includes photographs. According to the National Gallery of Art, “In Watching the Good Train Go By, Bearden used photographs to create cut out pictures of trains, faces, and arms, combined with patterned papers, creating a busy scene. Bearden’s art was influenced by his love for jazz and the blues. Music was often the subject of his work, and it also influenced his way of working. One distinguishing feature of jazz is improvisation...Bearden advised a younger artist to “become a blues singer—only you sing on the canvas. You improvise—you find the rhythm and catch it good, and structure as you go along—then the song is you…” According to press materials from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which in 2011 hosted a critically acclaimed exhibition of other Bearden collages, the artist believed that “art is made from other art: ..” This idea is literally present in the act of collage-making—taking images, colors, and forms out of one context, altering them, and juxtaposing them with other pre-existing images, colors, and forms to create something new. But it is equally apparent in Bearden’s celebration of jazz and blues, the inspiration he drew from African art, and his passion for telling the stories and representing the cultures of ordinary black Americans...” In a 2011 New York Times review, critic Roberta Smith wrote, “Romare Bearden (1911-88) spent more than 30 years striving to be a great artist, and in the early 1960s, when he took up collage in earnest, he became one. As historical shows go, this one feels unusually of-the-moment. For one thing the improvisational cross-fertilizing of art mediums that Bearden helped pioneer via collage is more and more the norm; for another, paper has probably never been more popular as an art material, for work in both two and three dimensions. .. Bearden took up collage sometime in the late 1950s, after a relatively fallow period during which what little painting he made was mostly abstract. A trip to France and Italy with his wife in 1961, to see many of the museums and churches he had visited 10 years before while studying painting on the G.I. Bill of Rights, may have reconnected him to figuration. In 1963 he helped organize Spiral, a group of African-American artists interested in finding new ways to portray black life in America. Bearden suggested that the group collaborate on collage, an implicitly collaborative medium. This didn’t happen, but evidently he found his métier in the process of demonstrating the possibilities. By then Bearden was in his early 50s, a late bloomer...
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1960s Realist Romare Bearden Art

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Graphite

MORNING OF THE ROOSTER Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING OF THE ROOSTER is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 1...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN(Uptown At Savoy) Signed Lithograph, Blues Singer
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN(Uptown At Savoy) is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175. INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN 1979 from Romare Bearden's colorful JAZZ series of musical imagery, is an abstract portrait that captures the LIVE energy created by the female blues singer...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Our Chorus
By Romare Bearden
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this scarce color screenprint on Arches. Signed and numbered 29/200 in pencil by Bearden. Published by the University of Pennsylvania...
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1970s Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Color, Screen

IN THE GARDEN Signed Lithograph, Black Woman Pink Gingham Dress Collage Portrait
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
IN THE GARDEN is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 150 by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. Featuring fresh, uplifting shades of lavender, hues of fresh green, pink, warm tomato red, orange yellow, grays, black and white, IN THE GARDEN depicts a charming collage portrait drawing of a young black woman waving as she carries her basket of freshly picked flowers. She is standing in the garden wearing a bright pink gingham...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Romare Bearden - Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp - 1993 Serigraph
By Romare Bearden
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: CB8608 Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp Year: 1993 Signed: No Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 35 x 43.75 inches ( 88.9 x 111.125 cm ) Imag...
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1990s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Screen

TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait Starry Night
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
TWO WORLDS, FACES OF THE FUTURE is a hand drawn, limited edition color lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by t...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Three Women (Easter Sunday), Lithograph by Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Three Women (Easter Sunday) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 20 x 15 inches Paper Size: 28 in. x 21...
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1980s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Etching, Photogravure

LOUISIANA SERENADE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Music Portrait, Southern Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
LOUISIANA SERENADE is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175. LOUISIANA SERENADE, from Bearden's late 1970's colorful JAZZ series of musical imagery, captures a Southern evening depicting two male figures playing their guitars on the veranda while a seated woman sits listening beside a glowing glass chimney lamp. LOUISIANA SERENADE, printed in lush hues of green, red, yellow, purple, blue presents a free flowing watercolor-like abstract music portrait by the renowned American artist Romare Bearden. Print size - 24.5 x 33.75 inches, unframed, excellent condition, fresh colors, full bleed image, no margins, pencil signed by Romare Bearden, Year Published - 1979 Edition size - 175 Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Romare Bearden is one of America’s most esteemed African American contemporary artists. Bearden grew up in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and attended New York University where he received a degree in mathematics. Following graduation, Bearden turned his attention to art, pursuing further studies with George Grosz at the Art Students League. The artist served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. After leaving the Army, Bearden used funds from the GI Bill to travel to Europe for six months to study art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne. During this trip, Bearden had the opportunity to meet Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Joan Miro, all of who had a strong influence on his artwork. Bearden’s work on canvas and collages expressed the complexities of rural Black America. “My intention is to reveal through pictorial complexities of the life I know,” he said. He integrated scenes from his childhood in North Carolina and from New York City, including many rituals and social customs. Another theme throughout his work was music. Bearden grew up surrounded by musicians and loved jazz and blues. Romare Bearden’s artwork can be found in numerous permanent collections around the country including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrospective exhibitions of Bearden’s art have been held by The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; the Museum of Modern Art; the Detroit Institute; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. As well, President Reagan...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

THE CONVERSATION Signed Lithograph, Black Women, Train, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
THE CONVERSATION is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. THE CONVERSATION by the African American master artist and collagist Romare Bearden is from Bearden's Mecklenburg series of images depicting recollections from his childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, NC. THE CONVERSATION presents an intimate scene showing two black women speaking to each other face to face, as a black steam train billowing a white cloud of smoke travels across the horizon. Bearden's well known visual motif - the train, suggests to the viewer the Great Migration...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY Hofstra University Art Poster, 1st Edition 1985
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY Year published - 1985 Commemorative Poster - Hofstra University - Noah Program Poster size - 34.5 x 21 inches, unframed, unsigned NOAH MEANS -...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Offset

AUTUMN OF THE ROOSTER Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
AUTUMN OF THE ROOSTER is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American master artist and collagist Romare Bearden printed using traditional hand lithography meth...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

School
By Romare Bearden
Located in New York, NY
ROMARE BEARDEN School, 1972 Color photo lithograph 24 × 34 inches Edition 112/150 Boldly signed and numbered in black marker; also bears plate signature above Co-published by Automat...
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1970s Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

MORNING Signed Lithograph, Interior Scene Black Women, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. MORNING by the African Am...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Tenor Sermon, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

TENOR SERMON Signed Lithograph, Abstract Jazz Portrait, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
TENOR SERMON is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden(September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988), printed ...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

1994 Romare Bearden 'School Bell Time' Multicolor USA Serigraph
By Romare Bearden
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 35 x 44 inches ( 88.9 x 111.76 cm ) Image Size: 26 x 38 inches ( 66.04 x 96.52 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: This reproduction of Bearden's ""School Bell...
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1990s Romare Bearden Art

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Screen

Mother and Child
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Mother and Child (from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness) Year: 1971 Medium: Silkscreen with ...
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1970s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Screen

Out Chorus, Jazz Etching by Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Out Chorus Year: 1979-80 Medium: Photoetching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 12 x 16 inches Paper Size: 22 x 30 inche...
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1980s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Photogravure, Etching

Tenor Sermon (GG#75), Jazz Series, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Title: Tenor Sermon (GG#75) Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 175, plus proofs Size: 24.75 x 34...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

The Olympics, Silkscreen by Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: The Olympics Year: 1976 Medium: Serigraph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Paper Size: 40 x 25 in. (101....
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1970s Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Screen

Louisiana Serenade, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

PEPPER JELLY LADY Signed Lithograph Black Woman, Rooster, Train, Black Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
PEPPER JELLY LADY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by one of the most important American artists of the 20th century, Romare Bearden wh...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Romare Bearden 1972 Mother and Child Screenprint
By Romare Bearden
Located in San Francisco, CA
Romare Bearden: 1911-1998. Very important and well listed African American artist with auction records over $770,000. He has an auction high over $31,000 for a single print. This imp...
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1970s Romare Bearden Art

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Screen

Brass Section (Jamming at Minton's), Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

BRASS SECTION Signed Lithograph, Abstract Portrait, Jazz Music Hornplayers
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
BRASS SECTION is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an edition size of 175. Brass Section 1979 from Romare Bearden's colorful JAZZ series of musical imagery, is an abstract portrait that captures the LIVE brassy sounds and energy created by the three male horn players portrayed. Bearden uses expressive fluid brushwork in the musician portrait drawings, complete with brass horns - namely trumpets and trombones thrusting forward toward the viewer. A harmonious complementary color palette consisting of golden ochre yellow, deep Prussian blue, midnight blue, yellow green, taupe gray, brown beige, hints of burgundy red with the white of the paper creating contrast. Superb and FRESH interpretation of live jazz music...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Out Chorus (Rhythm Section), Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Introduction for a Blues Queen, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Bopping at The Birdland, Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
ROMARE BEARDEN (1911-1988) Regarded as one of America's master painters and collagists who depicted African-American life within different types of media. He is famous for his collag...
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1970s Pop Art Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

BOPPING AT BIRDLAND (STOMP TIME) Signed Lithograph, Abstract Jazz Portrait, Sax
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
BOPPING AT BIRDLAND(STOMP TIME) is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an...
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1970s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

QUILTING TIME Signed Lithograph, African American Culture, Interior Scene, Quilt
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
QUILTING TIME is an original limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. QUILTING TIME by the African American master artist Romare Bearden is from Bearden's Mecklenburg series of images depicting recollections from his childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, NC. A colorful, intimate interior scene showing a black woman and young man tending to a multicolor quilt. Bearden's well known visual motif - the quilt, refers back to a time when the African American quilting tradition was employed by enslaved black people who worked coded messages into their handmade quilts to pass on information about the Underground Railroad...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

High Surf Orient Bay, St. Martin, Abstract Oil Monotype by Romare Bearden
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique oil monotype by Romare Bearden circa 1980. Reminiscent of the artist’s watercolor paintings, he used thinned oil to produce the crashing waves in bold bright colors. Artist...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Romare Bearden Art

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Monotype

"Early Morning at Pompey Gut", Watercolor Collage, Figurative, Signed by Artist
By Romare Bearden
Located in Detroit, MI
"Early Morning at Pompey Gut" is an impressive watercolor collage work by Romare Bearden and is an exquisite example of his Caribbean works. The Pompey Gut in question was a fishing ground on the island of St. Martin, a Caribbean island Bearden spent sixteen of his winters and summers at with his wife Nanette. The woman depicted is most likely Nanette, but could also be one of the many locals that Bearden had come to know and frequently depicted in his groundbreaking artwork that depicted the African diaspora of the Americas. Unframed the watercolor is 11 x 8 inches. The work has a very established provenance which is documented on the back and is confirmed as a Romare Bearden work in the book "Romare Bearden 1970-1980". The work is signed by the artist on the right side. Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1911. He was the son of Richard Bearden, a pianist, and Bessye Johnson Bearden, a journalist and activist. His family was part of the Great Migration north and his parents settled in Harlem where their home became a meeting place for Harlem figures such as Duke Ellington and Fats...
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1970s Romare Bearden Art

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Paper, Watercolor

THE LAMP Signed Lithograph Black Mother and Child Reading Brown vs. Board of Ed.
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LAMP is a hand drawn limited edition color lithograph by the renowned American master artist Romare Bearden, proofed and printed using hand lithography in 19 colors plus silver f...
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1980s Contemporary Romare Bearden Art

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Lithograph

Bridgetown Barbados
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
A monoprint by Romare Bearden circa 1980. A bright city scene illustrated in a modern expressionist style. Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: Bridgetown, Barbado...
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1980s Expressionist Romare Bearden Art

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Monoprint

Jamming at the Savoy
By Romare Bearden
Located in New York, NY
Romare Bearden (1911-1988), Jamming at the Savoy, 1980-81, colored etching and aquatint. Reference: Gelburd and Rosenberg (2, p. 9); GG #95 (p. 29). Signe...
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1980s American Impressionist Romare Bearden Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Memories #2
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Memories #2 Year: 1981 Medium: Ink, Dye Paint and Collage, signed left Paper Size: 8.8 x 9.8 inches Frame Size: 11 x 15 inches
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1980s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Dye, Ink

The Soul Never Dwells in a Dry Place
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) Title: The Soul Never Dwells in a Dry Place Date: October, 1946 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l. Size: 24 in. x 31 in. (60.96 ...
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1940s Cubist Romare Bearden Art

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Oil

Sunrise Coffee
By Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Sunrise Coffee Year: 1970 Medium: Collage and Mixed Media on Masonite, signed left and verso Size: 18 in. x 21 in. (45.72 cm x 53.34 cm) Frame Si...
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1960s American Modern Romare Bearden Art

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Masonite

Romare Bearden art for sale on 1stDibs

Find wide variety of authentic Romare Bearden art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you are looking for art to add a pop of color to a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, pink, purple and other colors. You can also browse art by Romare Bearden in lithograph, screen print and more by medium. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th Century and is mostly associated with the Contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Romare Bearden art, so small editions measuring 15 inches across are available. Those interested in this artist might also find the work of Red Grooms, John Baldessari and Elizabeth Catlett. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,500 and tops out at $23,600, while the average work can sell for $4,875.

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