Romare Bearden Revealed; Romare Bearden seamlessly merged his knowledge of black culture with the tradition of the European masters, creating uniquely American works of art.(THE NATION) From: Insight on the News | Date: December 8, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

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The artist Romare Bearden made a rich, incomparable record of the black America of his time. Born Sept. 2, 1911, in Charlotte, N.C., he painted the African-Americans of the South and the stories he heard from them his whole life, decades after he left Dixie with his family for the North, like so many Southern blacks.

Bearden painted the people of Harlem, where he grew up, his college-educated parents being friends of such central figures of the Harlem Renaissance as Duke Ellington and the maverick (and conservative) journalist George S. ...

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