Additional resources
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Romare Bearden at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
“Artist with Painting and Model” by Romare Bearden from the High Museum
Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
Bearden thought about painting like music.
Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians,, 1967, collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 ½ inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts). A conversation with Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Dr. Leo Mazow, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Dr. Steven Zucker
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