Romare Bearden: Abstraction

While Jacob Lawrence is the most well-known African American artist, Romare Bearden is equally admired and respected. Like Lawrence, Bearden captured scenes of everyday life in Harlem and elsewhere. At the Frye we will see his abstractions – and closer ties to modern art gained firsthand from his stays in Paris, where he met Picasso, Léger and Braque. Once he was back in New York, his studies of Chinese ink painting freed him for the leap to abstraction.