Romare Bearden and family in Charlotte, circa 1920. Front row, from left: great-grandfather Henry Kennedy, Romare at age 8 or 9, great-grandmother Rosa Catherine Kennedy. Back row, from left: aunt ...

As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored. By Ash Wu Once she was cast out of the United ...

Romare Bearden’s art was a mirror for the communities that raised him. While Romare Bearden is widely recognized for his ties to Harlem’s art scene, his roots run deep in the south. Born in the ...

In the early weeks of 1969, protesters gathered before the entrances of New York City's major art museums to complain about the institutions' treatment of African-American artists. The public ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter New York City’s sprawling public ...

A new book on Charlotte native Romare Bearden provided a number of unexpected details about the artist’s life, family and work. Here are 15 of them, from Glenda Gilmore’s “Romare Bearden in the ...

Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was an American artist, activist, and writer. Working with various media including oil, prints, and watercolor, he is perhaps best remembered for his inventive paintings of ...

Many artists and art historians consider Romare Bearden one of America's most important and inventive artists. But he's hardly a household name. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that the National Gallery of ...