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Art of Romare Bearden

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The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes—religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the realities of black life—endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s.

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