BiographyRomare Bearden was an African American artist best known for his pioneering use of collage, combining cut photographs, painted papers, and fragments of found imagery into richly layered compositions that celebrated Black Southern life, jazz, mythology, and the urban experience. Working primarily from the 1960s onward in New York, he created tapestries, murals, and mosaics in addition to works on paper and canvas. He is widely regarded as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.
