NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis selected from the collection of Albert Murray (b. 1916), the well-known novelist, social and cultural critic, and jazz historian. The exhibition, on view in our Project Gallery, celebrates the cultural contributions of these three important figures and friends. In the late spring of 1950, Murray traveled to Paris, where he first befriended Romare Bearden (1911–1988), who was also studying via the G.I. Bill. The fruitful and complex relationship that ensued has been documented and discussed in many scholarly studies of Bearden’s work. For a time, Murray and Bearden collaborated, devising the artist’s themes, titling his work, and writing together. The two appear in the documentary Bearden Plays Bearden (1981), riffing on art and the creative process. Murray later wrote catalog essays for Bearden exhibitio