Research Catalog
Bessye and Romare Bearden portrait collection
- Title
- Bessye and Romare Bearden portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1920?-1950?>
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Bearden, Bessye and Romare | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <3> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
- <7> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- <5> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- Views of civic leader Bessye Jeanne Bearden, mother of artist Romare Bearden, and views of Romare Bearden, during the 1920s through 1950. Includes portraits of Bessye signing graduation diplomas; with an open book; in a snapshot standing beside Augusta Savage's sculpture "The Harp" at the New York World's Fair; aboard a ship; with Romare Bearden during his early years; in group portraits during social and business activities; and a portrait of Romare as a young boy.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Gelatin silver prints
- Portrait photographs
- Civic leaders > United States
- African Americans > Social life > 1920-1950
- Banquets
- Ocean travel
- Snapshots
- Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
- Group portraits
- African American artists
- United States > Officials and employees
- African American journalists
- Bearden, Bessye B., 1891-1943
- African American art
- Leisure > 1920-1950
- African American women > 1920-1950
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits.
- Portrait photographs.
- Snapshots.
- Gelatin silver prints.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs have descriptive information on verso; one has puncture holes; some items have cracks or tears; some items bear stains or ink marks.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Bearden, Bessye and Romare
- OCLC
- NYPG085000247-F
- Title
- Bessye and Romare Bearden portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1920?-1950?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Bearden, Bessye and Romare