NGA | Bearden Resources

Resources

Official web site of the Bearden Foundation
The National Endowment for the Humanities web site includes a resource for "Learning the Blues"
PBS has educational materials about the blues along the Mississippi River
PBS has extensive information about jazz from the Ken Burns television series. Includes biographies, audio, and online activities.
Web site of the International Association for Jazz Education
ArtsEdge, on the Kennedy Center site, has an educational resource for performance and visual arts
American Memory, a section of the Library of Congress web site, includes archived recordings as well as other cultural documents.

The quotations from Romare Bearden that appear in this resource are from the sources cited below.

Bearden, Romery. "Rectangular Structures in My Montage Paintings." Leonardo 2 (January 969):1–9
Berman, Avis. "Romare Bearden: I Paint out of the Tradition of the Blues." Art News 79 (December 1980): 60–67
Fine, Ruth, et al. The Art of Romare Bearden. Exh cat.. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 20003
Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940–1987. Exh. cat., The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1991. Published by Oxford University Press
Murray, Albert. "The Visual Equivalent of the Blues," in Romare Bearden: 1970–1980. Exh. cat., Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 1980, 17–28
Romare Bearden, Projections. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965
Romare Bearden in Black and White: Photomontage Projections 1964. Exh. cat., Whitney/Philip Morris, New York, 1997
Schwartzman, Myron. Romare Bearden: Celebrating the Victory. New York: Franklin Watts, 1999
Schwartzman, Myron. Romare Bearden: His Life and Art, New York: Abrams, 1990
Tompkins, Calvin. "Profiles: Romare Bearden, Putting Something Over Something Else." New Yorker 53 (November 28, 1977): 53–77

Bearden, Romare. Lil' Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story. (book and CD). New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
Collier, Bryan. Uptown. New York: Henry Holt, 2000
Giovanni, Nikki. Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems. New York, Henry Holt, 1996
Hughes, Langston (with collage by Romare Bearden). The Block. New York, Viking, 1995
Greenberg, Jan. Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories. New York: Abrams, 2003
Hartfield, Claire (illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue). Me and Uncle Romie. New York: Dial, 2002
Shange, Ntozake (paintings by Romare Bearden). I Live in Music. New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1999
Weatherford, Carole Boston (illustrated by Eric Velasquez). The Sound That Jazz Makes. New York: Walker and Company, 2000

Branford Marsalis Quartet, Romare Bearden Revealed, Marsalis Music/Rounder Records, 2003