Awards & Winners

Romare Bearden

Date of Birth 02-September-1911
Place of Birth Charlotte
(North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, United States of America, Area code 704, Area code 980)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Artist, Writer
Romare Bearden was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950. Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights. Bearden was the author or coauthor of several books, and was a songwriter who co-wrote the jazz classic "Sea Breeze", which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie. His lifelong support of young, emerging artists led him and his wife to create the Bearden Foundation to support young or emerging artists and scholars. In 1987, Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His work in collage led the New York Times to describe Bearden as “the nation's foremost collagist” in his 1988 obituary.

Awards by Romare Bearden

Check all the awards nominated and won by Romare Bearden.

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story