Romare Bearden Gallery
Watercolor, pen, and India ink, and pencil on paper; 19 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1914. His family soon moved to Harlem where he founded the "306 Group", a club for Harlem's artists. During the 1940's, his style combined African culture and symbols with a stylized realism. After a stay in Paris, Bearden's work became more abstract, using layers of oil paint to produce muted, hidden effects. During the 1960's civil rights movement, his focus shifted again, to collage, considered his best work
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