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The Family from An American Portrait
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
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American (1911–1988)
- Date: 1976
- Aquatint and photoengraving in colors on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil
- Edition of 36/175
- Size: 19.5 x 26 in. (49.53 x 66.04 cm)
- Printer: Transworld Art, blindstamp
- Reference: Gelburd/Rosenberg, GG. 55A
about The Family from An American Portrait
This print by Romare Bearden typifies the subject matter that made him famous - the work depicts an average African American family preparing for a meal.
Based on a collage from which numerous photo-etching plates were made, the work is among the artist’s most ambitious prints, conceptually and technically. In it Bearden used photographic snippets derived from popular magazines like Ebony and The Saturday Evening Post.
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