Two Figures
Romare Howard Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988
1968
Collage of commercially prepared, coated, colored paper, prepared photographic paper, and transparent and opaque watercolor on cream wove paper, with additions of graphite and black ink on card, mounted on smooth-surfaced plywood panel
Overall: 20 × 16 1/16 × 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.8 × 2.2 cm)
Frame: 20 3/16 × 16 3/16 in. (51.2 × 41.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Bernstein
© Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
P.977.179
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in red ballpoint, in upper left: romare bearden
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Jennifer Caine, Spring 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2014
SART 17, Special Topics: Digital Painting, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
SART 20, Drawing II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015
SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Art and the American Experience, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, no. 6, 8, September 13-December 6, 1998.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Romare Bearden: Collages, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), January 24-April 12, 1998.
Publication History
Jan van der Marck, Art and the American Experience, Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1998, ill. p. 6.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 39, 222, 275-276, ill. p. 223, no. 80.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 93
Provenance
The artist; consigned to Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc. (art dealer), New York, January 1969; sold to Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, January 1969; consigned to Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, by December, 1974 [not sold]; returned to Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, 1977; given to present collection, 1977.
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