Romare BEARDEN Family/ Mother and Child 1980 African American ARTIST ORIGINAL SIGNED Serigraph

Fine Art : Romare Bearden : Original : Serigraph : Limited Edition : African American : Black Artist

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Romare Bearden American, 1911 - 1988

The MOTHER AND CHILD subject was one of Romare Bearden’s favorites, he rendered different versions throughout his career and I believe this particular one is the most vibrant he created. The colors are amazing, absolutely vibrant!

This serigraph is in MINT condition, ARCHIVAL QUALITY, it has never been framed or exposed to light other than to photograph.

The image measures 18-1/8" X 14 -1/8", the size of the paper is 29- 1/2" X 21- 1/4", it is titled FAMILY in pencil with the artist’s handwriting, it is number: 140 in a very small series of only 180 and is signed in pencil by Romare Bearden.

A reference to this serigraph can be found on Page 116 in "A Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden as Printmaker" Edited by Gail Gelburd, Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press

Romare Bearden Is among the preeminent artists of his generation and one of the first African American artists to get recognition in the mainstream world. He remains one of the foremost African American artists of the 20Th century with his works exhibited in Art Galleries’s permanent collections around the world.

Travelling exhibitions of his works are met with overwhelming success, his legacy and contribution to the World of Art is enormous, without even taking into account the impact that it had in opening doors for African American artists to start getting a much deserved recognition in a very tumoltuous time in African American history.

His powerful works represent the places where he lived and worked: the rural South; northern cities, principally Pittsburgh and New York's Harlem; and later the Caribbean island of St. Martin. Religious subjects and ritual practices, jazz clubs and brothels. History and literature are overlapping themes in his work. Throughout his career Bearden also dabbled in abstraction, usually with musical associations.

The complexity and scope of Bearden's art included collages and Projections- photostats, for which he is best known, watercolors, gouaches, and oils.

Bearden's body of work includes book and poster illustrations, he designed costumes and sets for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and programs, sets, and costumes for Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theatre. He also completed more than a dozen mural commissions in a variety of media including collage, ceramic tile, and faceted glass.

He was an artist, a writer as well as an eloquent spokesman on artistic and social issues of the day.

A Slightly MORE DETAILED BIOGRAPHY

Romare Bearden American, 1911 - 1988

Romare Bearden was born to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, on 2 September 1911. Around 1914, when Life became increasingly difficult for African Americans, even for college educated and economically successful families as the Beardens, Howard (Dad) , Bessye (Mom), and Romare (Son), moved toNew York City, which remained Bearden's main home for the rest of his life.

Bessye became a social and political activist and was the New York correspondent for the African-American newspaper, Chicago Defender, while Howard worked as a city sanitation inspector, played the piano in his spare time and apparently he also was an amazing Story Teller.

The Bearden family socialized with the intellectual, artistic, and political mainstream of the Harlem Renaissance.

Bearden's interest in art was inspired by his need to capture childhood experiences and his early love of cartooning.

He studied science and mathematics at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, then ART and Art Education, including two years at Boston University and courses with German-born artist George Grosz. He graduated with a degree in education from New York University, where he was a lead cartoonist and then art editor for the college's monthly journal.

The first of many of his journal covers was published during his university years as well as the first of numerous texts he would write on social and artistic issues. Between 1935 and 1937 he was a weekly editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Afro-American. In later years Bearden's works graced the covers of Fortune and Time magazines, among many others; and his many publications include A History of African American Artists: From 1792 to the Present, published posthumously in 1993.

Bearden had his first solo exhibition in Harlem in 1940 and his first solo show in a major mainstream gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1944. His work was exhibited in Paris before the end of the decade. The prestigious Samuel Kootz Gallery in Manhattan, which represented prominent artists including Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, and Robert Motherwell, also represented Bearden during the late 1940s .

He travelled to Paris, where he studied literature, philosophy, Buddhism, and spent many hours in museums, he also travelled through Italy and Spain. In 1954 Bearden married a choreographer and dancer, with whom In the early 1970s established a second residence on the Caribbean island of St. Martin..

He joined the prestigious Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in the early 1960s, where his works were represented for the rest of his life. He was also included in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.

In 1963 he was a founding member of Spiral, an association of African American artists to support the civil rights movement; In 1964 1964 he was appointed as the first art director of the Harlem Cultural Council, a prominent African American advocacy group with several hundred members; and was founding member of Cinque Gallery, which supported young minority artists. He also was involved in the founding of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Among Bearden's many awards and honors were his election to the American Academy of Design and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1987, one year before he died, Romare Bearden received the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan.

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