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Title:Untitled (from the "Iliad" series)
Artist:Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)
Date:ca. 1948
Medium:Brush and colored inks and colored markers on paper
Dimensions:26 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (66.7 x 51.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Gloria Joyner Lee, 2008
Object Number:2009.167
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in black ink): Bearden
the artist (possibly sold to Lee); Joshua and Gloria Joyner Lee, New York and Massachusetts (until his d.); Gloria Joyner Lee, New York and Massachusetts (until d. 2008; her bequest to MMA)
New York. Niveau Gallery. "'The Iliad': 16 Variations by Romare Bearden," November 9–25, 1948 [possibly this picture].
S. H. "Bearden, Gerard Display Paintings." New York Times (November 12, 1948), p. 21 [possibly this picture].
"Reviews and Previews: Romare Bearden." Art News 47 (December 1948), p. 52 [possibly this picture].
Marynell Sharp. "Bearden Paints 'The Iliad'." Art Digest 23 (November 15, 1948), pp. 32–33 [possibly this picture].
Romare Bearden. "Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings." Leonardo 2 (January 1969), pp. 11–12, mentions the "Iliad" series.
Calvin Tomkins. "Profiles: Romare Bearden. Putting Something Over Something Else." New Yorker 53 (November 28, 1977), p. 61, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Avis Berman. "Romare Bearden: 'I Paint out of the Tradition of the Blues'." Art News 79 (December 1980), p. 65, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Matthew S. Witkovsky. "Experience vs. Theory: Romare Bearden and Abstract Expressionism." Black American Literature Forum 23 (Summer 1989), pp. 265, 268, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Myron Schwartzman. Romare Bearden: His Life and Art. New York, 1990, pp. 106, 144, 152–53, 259, 294, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Sharon F. Patton inMemory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940–1987. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1991, pp. 18, 30, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Kobena Mercer. "Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century." Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies. Ed. Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey. Williamstown, Mass., 2002, p. 35, mentions the "Iliad" series.
Ruth Fine inThe Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D. C., 2003, pp. 17–18, 21, 88, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Abdul Goler inThe Art of Romare Bearden. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003, p. 197.
Pepe Karmel. "The Negro Artist's Dilemma: Bearden, Picasso, and Pop Art." Romare Bearden, American Modernist. Ed. Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis. Washington, D.C., 2011, p. 267 n. 14, mentions the "Iliad" series.
Mary Schmidt Campbell. An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. New York, 2018, pp. 143, 163, 273, discusses the "Iliad" series.
Kobena Mercer. "Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 223 [reprints Ref. Mercer 2002].
Calvin Tomkins. "Putting Something Over Something Else." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 40 [reprints Ref. Tomkins 1977].
Robert G. O'Meally. "'Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship': An Introductory Essay." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 4, mentions the "Iliad" series.
Romare Bearden. "Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings." The Romare Bearden Reader. Ed. Robert G. O'Meally. Durham, N.C., 2019, p. 122 [reprints Ref. Bearden 1969].
Romare Bearden (American, Charlotte, North Carolina 1911–1988 New York)
ca. 1971
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