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Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
Life Dates
Born 1911, Charlotte, NC
Died 1988, New York City
Selected Museum Collections
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Cummer Museum of Art & Garden, Jacksonville, FL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC
DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fisk University Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MS
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Solo Exhibitions
| 1940 | Studio of Ad Bates, New York, NY | |
| 1945 | The G Place Gallery, Washington, DC Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1946 | Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1947 | Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1948 | Niveau Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1955 | Barone Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1960 | Michael Warren Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1961 | Cordier & Warren Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1964 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1965 | Projections, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | |
| 1966 | Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA Bundy Art Gallery, Waitsfield, VT |
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| 1967 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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| 1968 | University Art Gallery, The University of Albany, State University of NY | |
| 1969 | University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City, IO Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1970 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY Tercia Karliss Gallery, Provincetown, MA |
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| 1971 | The Prevalence of Ritual, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| 1973 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1975 | Of the Blues: Romare Bearden, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1977 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1978 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1980 | Romare Bearden 1970 - 1980, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA | |
| 1981 | Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1986 | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
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| 1988 | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC | |
| 1989 | Romare Bearden: A Memorial Exhibition, 1911-1988 ACA Galleries, New York, NY | |
| 1991 | Romare Bearden: Memory and Metaphor, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; traveled Romare Bearden: Finding the Rhythm, The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK; traveled |
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| 1992 | Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA High Museum, Atlanta, GA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
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| 1993 | National Museum on American Art, Washington, DC | |
| 1994 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1995 | Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2002 | A Look at Romare Bearden, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| 2003 | The Art of Romare Bearden, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| 2004 | Sunday Morning Breakfast: Inside the Art of Romare Bearden, Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Romare Bearden: Fractured Tales, Intimate Collages, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
Group Exhibitions
| 1941 | American Negro Art, Downtown Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1944 | New Names in American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| 1945 | Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Passion of Christ, Devoluy Gallery, Paris, France |
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| 1946 | Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, NY Clearwater Art Museum, Clearwater, FL |
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| 1947 | La Tausca Art Competition, New York, NY | |
| 1948 | 6 American Painters, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France Abstract and Surrealist American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| 1950 | American Painting Today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| 1951 | Survey of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| 1953 | Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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| 1956 | Eight New York Painters, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| 1961 | The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 1964 | Morris County Tercentary Committee Exhibition, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ | |
| 1966 | An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Art, Academy Art Gallery, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY The Negro in American Art, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1967 | The Evolution of Afro-American Artists: 1800-1850, City College of New York, New York, NY The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Protest and Hope: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Art Center, New School for Social Research, New York, NY |
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| 1968 | 30 Contemporary Black Artists, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Invisible Americans Black Artists, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
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| 1969 | New American Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Posters by Artists, Finch College Museum, New York, NY Sixth Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Centennial Exhibition, Lincoln University, Lincoln, PA Ten Afro-American Artists, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA The First Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Homage to Martin Luther King, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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| 1970 | 5 Famous Black Artists, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Arts, Boston, MA | |
| 1971 | Black Artists: Two Generations, Newark Museum Association, Newark, NJ | |
| 1975 | Southern Sampler, American Paintings in Southern Museums, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN | |
| 1977 | Heralds of Life: Artis, Bearden, and Burke, Central University Museum of Art, Durham, NC Watercolors by Romare Bearden and Afro-Ethnographs by Reginald Jackson, Wendall Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1978 | Twelve Americans: Masters of Collage, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1979 | Reflections of a Southern Heritage: 20th Century Black Artists of the Southeast, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC | |
| 1980 | In Celebration: 6 Black Americans, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ | |
| 1981 | The Human Form, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 24 Black American Artists, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1983 | Celebrating Contemporary American Black Artists, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY | |
| 1989 | Multiple Images: Prints by Afro-Americans, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | |
| 1991 | Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| 1994 | Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1995 | African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA | |
| 1996 | African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1997 | Civil Progress: Images of Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY This is Why We Sing: An Exhibition of African-American Art, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN |
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| 1998 | Tradition & Conflict: A Visual History of African-Americans in Art, 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
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| 1999 | Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African-American Art, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI |
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| 2000 | Pollock to Wyeth: American Masters, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL |
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| 2001 | Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc, New York, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX |
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| 2002 | African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2003 | African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Building Community: The African American Scene, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| 2008 | African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Il Secolo del Jazz: Arte, Cinema, Musica e Fotografia da Picasso a Basquiat (The Jazz Century: Art, Cinema, Music and Photography from Picasso to Basquiat), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy; Museé du quai Branly, Paris, France; Centro de Cultura Contemporānea, Barcelona, Spain Harlem Renaissance, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
African American Art 2007 Calendar
African American Art: 200 Years
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X
American Identity: Figurative Painting and Sculpture, 1930-1945
Body Beware: 18 American Artists
Building Community: The African American Scene
Collage: Made in America
Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art
Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art
Heartland: The American Scene
Mood Indigo: The Legacy of Duke Ellington - A Look at Jazz and Improvisation in American Art
On Paper: Abstraction in American Art
On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art
Romare Bearden: Fractured Tales: Intimate Collages
