Romare Bearden
Painting, Visual Artist
1911 – 1988
Who was Romare Bearden?
Romare Bearden was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950.
Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights.
Bearden was the author or coauthor of several books, and was a songwriter who co-wrote the jazz classic "Sea Breeze", which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1911
Charlotte - Parents
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
- Columbia University
- New York University
Science
( - 1935) - Education
- Boston University
- Peabody High School
- Sorbonne
Art history
(1950 - ) - Philosophy
- Lived in
- Charlotte
- Lower Manhattan
( - 1988/03/12)
- Died
- Mar 12, 1988
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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