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Resources  
Online 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.
- 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.
Books and Articles by and about Bearden
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
For Young People
- 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
Music
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Romare Bearden Revealed, Marsalis Music/Rounder Records, 2003
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