Romare
Bearden
During the 1930s, Bearden was involved with 306, an art school and workshop in Harlem. In 1950, he travelled to Paris to study art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne and met, among others, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Joan Miró. Beardon was a founding member of Spiral group and a co-founder of the Cinque Gallery, a non- profit organization that showed the work of minority artists. The complex scenes Beardon created were were greatly inspired by the African-American experience, mythology and religion. Bearden’s work has been celebrated in numerous museum exhibitions across the United States, and in 1990 the Romare Bearden Foundation was established to preserve the legacy of the artist. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC organized a retrospective in 2003.
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