One of the best-known and most important works by acclaimed artist Romare Bearden is a new part of the permanent collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Three Folk Musicians,” a 5 ...

Romare Bearden, “Watching the Good Trains Go ... perhaps wearing his World War I uniform. The itinerant folk musician, ready to strum, catches trains from town to town. In “Of the Blues ...

Bearden’s style was influenced by many sources, including Western European art, African sculpture, and even jazz and blues music. That even led to Romare composing music, like the legendary ...

Romare Bearden ... is familiar territory for Bearden, who combined images of the African-American experience — from his African-American roots in the South to jazz musicians who made up his ...

90, illustrated in color Ntozake Shange and Romare Bearden, I Live in Music, New York, 1994, p. 7, illustrated in color Kevin Brown, Romare Bearden, New York 1995, p. 54, illustrated in color Graham ...

In 2011, he was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with his father and brothers, who are also legendary jazz musicians. Marsalis will perform "Romare Bearden ...