| Early Carolina Morning - Serigraph - (1912 - 1988) Romare Bearden
Born September 2, 1912. He was an African-American artist.
Born Fred Howard Romare Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, he grew up primarily in the Harlem district of New York City. His mother s work as New York editor for the Chicago Defender newspaper and as a social activist brought Bearden into contact with the writers, artists, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, a high point of black intellectual life during the 1920s. Bearden s life-long interest in African American art and in jazz and blues music dates from this period. He studied at New York University, receiving his B.A. degree in 1935.
While a student, he drew cartoons for the university s humor magazine, Medley, and submitted political cartoons and drawings to such publications as the Baltimore Afro-American, Collier s Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. In the late 1930s Bearden attended the Art Students League where he worked with German-American expressionist artist George...
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| Known for his paintings and collages, in the last fifteen years of his life Romare Bearden produced a great variety of prints. Recalled by the prints are the artist's experience growing up in the South, his studies in Paris, his participation and role in the Harlem Renaissance. The prints feature his reinterpretation of ancient myths, traditional rituals, explore printing techniques and personal symbolism, while "revealing the poety intrinsic to modern American life."
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| Early Carolina Morning - Serigraph, by Romare Bearden is a Limited Edition production by the Artist. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity which affirms that this is an authentic Limited Edition production from Romare Bearden |
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