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The Worcester Art Museum Presents the ‘Debut of the Modern French Woman’

Worcester, MA.- The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present “Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman”, a selection of prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate an overall shift in the depi…

Romare Bearden’s ‘The Block’ and Related Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), "The Block", detail, 1971. Cut & pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, pencil, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and pen and ink on Masonite, 48 x 216 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Shore, 1978 © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York , NY.

NEW YORK, NY.- Romare Bearden’s vibrant mural-size tableau The
Block (1971) and related sketches and photographs will be featured at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 15, 2010
, in a small
installation of works from the collection. The Block, an ambitious 18-foot-long
collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood in New York City that nurtured and
inspired so much of the artist’s life and work. On view through Spring,
2010.

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