In the Garden, from the American Portfolio
Romare Howard Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988
1980
Lithograph on paper
113/150
Sheet: 28 11/16 × 21 1/8 in. (72.9 × 53.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ernesto Ostheimer
Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
PR.980.287.1
Printer
Joseph Kleinenman Fine Arts Printing, New York
Publisher
London Arts Group, Detroit
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, in graphite, lower right: 113/150; signed, in graphite, lower left: Romare Bearden
Label
In the Garden mimics the collage style for which Romare Bearden is famous, merging the images of Eve in the garden of Eden and the “conjur woman.” Bringing these two figures together, Bearden marries the concept of the fallible human with a respected healer equipped with extensive herbal knowledge and spiritual insight. In this garden, the woman is not punished, but instead possesses agency over her own sustenance.
From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12 - July 22, 2022.
Provenance
London Arts Group, Inc., Detroit, Michigan; sold to Ernesto Ostheimer, Southfield, Michigian; given to present collection, 1980.
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