Bearden, Romare Howard
1911-1988 · Contribution: 1964-1988
Visual Arts
Pioneering collage artist whose layered, photomontage-based works became some of the most acclaimed depictions of African American life in 20th-century American art
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Bearden turned collage into a serious vehicle for narrating African American history and memory, giving the civil-rights era some of its most enduring visual statements.
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