romare bearden brooklyn museum exhibition poster: jamming at the savoy (1981)
“Romare Bearden’s vibrant paintings, drawings, collages, and photomontages canonized Black experience in mid-20th-century America. After transitioning from lush abstractions to figurative canvases in the early 1960s, Bearden depicted Black subjects in classical settings and compositions. He combined his flattened figures with intricate patterned dress and semi-abstract, fragmented blocks of color, giving mythological weight to his scenes. He’s most famous for his collages, which he composed from magazines, advertisements, textbooks, and more. Bearden, who graduated from New York University with a degree in education before studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York, helped establish an infrastructure for Black arts in New York.”
year: 1981, original edition
dimensions: 22” X 31 1/2”
condition: very good
unframed
“Romare Bearden’s vibrant paintings, drawings, collages, and photomontages canonized Black experience in mid-20th-century America. After transitioning from lush abstractions to figurative canvases in the early 1960s, Bearden depicted Black subjects in classical settings and compositions. He combined his flattened figures with intricate patterned dress and semi-abstract, fragmented blocks of color, giving mythological weight to his scenes. He’s most famous for his collages, which he composed from magazines, advertisements, textbooks, and more. Bearden, who graduated from New York University with a degree in education before studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York, helped establish an infrastructure for Black arts in New York.”
year: 1981, original edition
dimensions: 22” X 31 1/2”
condition: very good
unframed
“Romare Bearden’s vibrant paintings, drawings, collages, and photomontages canonized Black experience in mid-20th-century America. After transitioning from lush abstractions to figurative canvases in the early 1960s, Bearden depicted Black subjects in classical settings and compositions. He combined his flattened figures with intricate patterned dress and semi-abstract, fragmented blocks of color, giving mythological weight to his scenes. He’s most famous for his collages, which he composed from magazines, advertisements, textbooks, and more. Bearden, who graduated from New York University with a degree in education before studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York, helped establish an infrastructure for Black arts in New York.”
year: 1981, original edition
dimensions: 22” X 31 1/2”
condition: very good
unframed