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Spotlight: Romare Bearden
February 2 - 28, 2026
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Spotlight: Romare Bearden

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Romare Bearden, Odysseus Series, c. 1977

Romare Bearden American, 1911-1988

Odysseus Series, c. 1977
Group of 20 works; watercolor and pencil on paper
Various dimensions
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Provenance

The artist; to

Nanette Bearden (wife of the artist), New York, by 1980; to

The estate of the above, 1996;

[DC Moore Gallery, New York, 2007];

[Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina];

Private collection

Exhibitions

DC Moore Gallery, New York, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, November 13-January 5, 2008

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 17-September 9, 2012

Reynolda House, Winston Salem, North Carolina; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michel C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, 2012–2015

Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, North Carolina, Romare Bearden: Odysseus Series, May 18, 2016- November 12, 2017

Literature

Jerald L. Melberg and Milton J. Bloch, Romare Bearden: 1970-1980, Charlotte: The Mint Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 114-115, no. 500-519, an example series listed
Robert O’Meally, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2007

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