Mecklenberg County: Round About Sunset
Romare Howard Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988
1977
Paper collage with watercolor and acrylic on Masonite
Overall: 6 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (17.2 × 34.6 cm)
Frame: 13 × 20 × 2 in. (33 × 50.8 × 5.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
P.986.77.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, lower right: bear/ den; signed, dated, and inscribed, by artist, on label, on reverse: Mecklenberg County:/ "Round About Sunset" / R. Bearden/ 1977. Inscribed by artist on frame reverse: When the supper dishes were done / Mabel got ready to go to / choir practice
Course History
SART 17, Collage, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, III, Summer 2013
SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, II, Summer 2013
SART 17, Collage: Bridging the Gap, Esme Thompson, Fall 2013
SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2013
SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2014
WGST 51.8, The Femme Fatale in Literature, Film, and Myth, Paul Carranza, Spring 2014
SART 17, Special Topics: Digital Painting, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
SART 20, Drawing II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
AAAS 91.1, ENGL 53.18, The Harlem Renaissance, J. Martin Favor, Winter 2015
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016
AAAS 67.5, GEOG 21.01, Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms, Abigail Neely, Winter 2019
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2022
SART 25.01, Painting I, Danielle Genadry, Summer 2022
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 33, Picturing Family in "The South", Legacies of the American Civil War, Sophia Hutson, Class of 2006, Kathryn and Caroline Conroy Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 29-October 22, 2006.
Art Since 1945: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 19, 1992-March 14, 1993.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.
Romare Bearden 1970 to 1980, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1980.
Romare Bearden: Collages, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-April 12, 1998.
Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden's Profile Series, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 14, 2019-February 2, 2020.
The Art of Romare Bearden: Recollections of Mecklenberg County, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island , New York, September 20-December 30, 2001.
Publication History
Rebecca Bailey, What Is There to Teach About Art?, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 88, Number 8, May 1996, South Burlington: The Lane Press Inc., 1996, pp.36-45, ill. p. 41
Romare Bearden 1970 to 1980, Exhibition Catalogue, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1980, p. 106, no. 215.
Profile I: The Twenties, Cordier & Ekstrom Catalogue, 1978, no. 5.
Sophia Hutson, A Space for Dialogue 33, Picturing Family in "The South", Legacies of the American Civil War, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. cover (detail), p. 4.
Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Robert G O'Meally, Rachael Z Delue, Paul Devlin, Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019, illus. no. 5.
Provenance
Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, New York; sold to Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey; given to present collection, 1986.
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