Featuring eleven works by Romare Bearden from the Newark Museum's collection, this exhibition showcases the artist’s wide range of work.  Spanning the 1940s through the 1980s, this selection highlights Bearden’s exploration of a wide variety of media—including collage, printmaking, painting and watercolor. This presentation features the major themes and subjects Bearden explored throughout his long and productive career, such as jazz, landscape, the nude and his native southern culture.

Many of these works have never been exhibited and represent the Newark Museum’s long commitment to collecting Bearden’s work, a commitment that began in the 1940s and continues today as represented by the most recent acquisition of his work in 2004.

In May 2012, the Museum will showcase Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, an exhibition organized by The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, which will include 80 works that examine how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s career.  Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Banner (detail) and main image: Romare Bearden, American (1911–1988), Family, ca. 1975, Screenprint on white wove paper, Anonymous gift in memory of William P. Miller, Jr., 1989  89.5

Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY