| LC control no. | n 50006433 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988 |
| Variant(s) | Bearden, Romy, 1911-1988 Bearden, Rommie, 1911-1988 |
| Birth date | 1911-09-02 |
| Death date | 1988-03-12 |
| Place of birth | Charlotte (N.C.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Art Painting Collage Composition (Music) |
| Affiliation | New York University UniversiteĢ de Paris New York (N.Y.). Department of Social Services Harlem Cultural Council National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Painters Composers |
| Found in | The painter's mind, 1969. Romare Bearden, his life & art, 1990: t.p. (Romare Bearden) p. 10 (b. 9/2/1911 Charlotte, N.C.) CIP data sheet (d. 1988) Artist biographies master index, c1986 (Bearden, Romare, 1912- ; Bearden, Romare, 1914- ; Bearden, Romare Howard, 1914- ) Little girl, 1951: caption (Romy Bearden) Just as you are, 1954: caption (Rommie Bearden) Wikipedia, Sept. 08, 2014 (Romare Bearden ; born September 2, 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina; died March 12, 1988 in New York City artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935; he studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950. His early paintings were often of scenes in the American South, and his style was strongly influenced by the Mexican muralists, especially Diego Rivera and JoseĢ Clemente Orozco. 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) African American National Biography accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Bearden, Romare; Romare Howard Bearden; painter, printmaker, social worker; born 2 September 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States; BS degree in Education in New York University (1935); caseworker with the New York City Department of Social Services; served in an all black regimen (1944); studied philosophy at the Sorbonne on the GI Bill; teacher, art director of the Harlem Cultural Council; cofounder of the Cinque Gallery in New York; inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1966); awarded National Medal of Arts (1987); died 11 March 1988 in New York, New York, United States) Encyclopedia of African American artists, 2009: page 23 (Bearden, Romare; composer) |
| Associated language | eng |
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