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I am afraid, despite my intentions, that in some instances commentators have tended to overemphasize what they believed to be the social elements in my work. But while my response to certain human elements is as obvious as it is inevitable, I am also pleased to note that upon reflection many persons have found that they were as much concerned with the aesthetic implications of my paintings as with, what may possibly be, my human compassion.
| | - Romare Bearden, 1969, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
Romare Bearden Works Online
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Original works by Romare Bearden available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Art Institute of Chicago Art Access
The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pintoricchio and Benin), 1977
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Romare Bearden at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Village of Yo
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Return of the Prodigal Son, 1967
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Mississippi Monday
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
7 prints
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Cotton Workers
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
In the Garden from the American Portfolio
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Tidings, silkscreen and lithograph, ca.1973
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Before the First Whistle, 1972-73
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Three Women, lithograph, 1979
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
Evening: Off Shelby Road, 1978
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
In the Garden
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, California
Mother and Child, 1968
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Sacrifice, 1941
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Mysteries, 1974
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
At Five in the Afternoon
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Mecklenburg Autumn
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Early Morning, 1967
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Information about a 2005-2006 exhibition of the artist's work
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Family, 1971
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Gospel Song
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Street
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Carolina Shout
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Girl in the Garden
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Summertime, collage on board, 1967
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
2 works by Romare Bearden
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Johnny Hudgins Come On, 1981
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Mecklenburg Autumn, 1981
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Jazz
The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
In The Garden, 1980
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Train, ca.1974-76
Jazz at Montreux, ca.1982
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Conversation Piece, 1969
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Romare Bearden Foundation, New York
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
The Art of Romare Bearden at High Museum of Art (5 works online)
PBS
Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website
Presence Africaine
Romare Bearden at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Papers of African American Artists (see the links at right)
Time Magazine Cover Archive
John Lindsay, 1968
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Romare Bearden 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Resource Library Magazine
Romare Bearden at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1968 interview from the Oral History project
Romare Bearden at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Romare Bearden papers online
The New York Observer
"Romare Bearden Tied His Work to Race, But Was a Cubist", article by Hilton Kramer
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: The Art of Romare Bearden
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
An appreciation of Romare Bearden's art
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Romare Bearden: Celebrating the Victory
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The Block
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Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story
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Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
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I Live In Music
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