Romare Bearden

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (actually Fred Romare Harry Bearden ; born September 2, 1911 in Charlotte , North Carolina , † March 12, 1988 in New York , NY ) was an African American American artist . He worked as a caricaturist , as a painter in oil and mainly made collages . He was also a writer and songwriter .

biography

Romare Bearden was the son of Richard Howard Bearden and his wife Bessye Johnson. In 1915 the family moved to New York, where his father worked as an inspector for the city. After graduating from high school in Pittsburgh , where he lived for some time with his maternal grandmother, he studied at New York University until 1935 and from 1936-37 with George Grosz at the Art Students League of New York .

In 1937, Romare Bearden was a New York City social worker; during World War II he served in the United States Army in Europe (1942–1945). After the war he enrolled at the Paris Sorbonne for philosophy and art history . After completing his studies, he traveled to Italy , Switzerland , Algeria and Morocco in 1954 with his wife Nanette Rohan († 1996) . Bearden returned to New York in 1956 and set up a studio there. He was a co-founder of the black artist group Spiral . Since 1964 he has been the Art Director for the Harlem Cultural Council .

Much of his work showed a great deal of interest in jazz and folk music. In the early 1970s, Romare Bearden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on African American art. Romare Bearden later taught at various institutes, including Williams College in Williamstown and Yale University in New Haven . Romare Bearden last suffered from bone cancer for several years and died on March 12, 1988 in a New York hospital.

Awards

literature

  • M. Bunch Washington: The Art of Romare Bearden. The Prevalence of Ritual. Abrams, New York 1973. With an introduction by John A. Williams.
  • Myron Schwartzman: Romare Bearden. His Art and Life. Abrams, 1990.
  • Mary Schmidt Campbell et al. Sharon F. Patton: Memory and Metaphor. The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987. Oxford University Press, New York 1991.
  • Mary Schmidt Campbell: An American odyssey: the life and work of Romare Bearden , New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2018], ISBN 978-0-19-505909-0
  • Gail Gelburd: A Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden As Printmaker: Romare Bearden as Printmaker. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8122-1414-5

music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Bearden, Romare ANA 1978 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 17, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ^ Members: Romare H. Bearden. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bearden, Romare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bearden, Fred Romare Harry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist, painter, and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlotte , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1988
Place of death New York , NY