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1. 1 2019-09-02T11:18:34-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739 "From the mid-1930s through 1960s, Bearden was a social worker with the New York City Department of Social Services, working on his art at night and on weekends." Lauren Cesiro 3 plain 2019-09-04T05:42:58-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739
2. 1 2019-08-28T15:47:08-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739 "In rare archival footage, Romare Bearden sheds light on his concepts and process, and how certain motifs in his art illuminate the African American experience." Lauren Cesiro 2 plain 2019-08-28T15:49:37-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739

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• 1 2019-09-03T18:58:41-07:00 Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
  The Family, 1975 4 Label & Media plain 2019-09-04T11:57:49-07:00
  In a modest rural home, three figures—or is it four?—prepare a humble meal around a table, while in the background at left, a woman grooms herself under an exposed lightbulb. The family, their house, even the landscape glimpsed out a window, are all composed of cut-up bits of photographs and painted paper, creating a patchwork vision of this working-class family. Romare Bearden, one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century, returned to such images of domesticity throughout his career in order to celebrate the everyday lives of African Americans.
  
  Bearden’s artistic career spanned a long arc that stretched from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s to the Civil Rights era and beyond. Although he began as a painter, by the 1960s he had embraced collage, arranging fragments of pictures from magazines and newspapers, pieces of colored paper, fabric and other scraps into scenes portraying contemporary Black life.