A History Of African-American Artists

Romare Bearden's works have been exhibited throughout the world, and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Gallery, and the Whitney Museum. Among the many honors he received was the National Medal of Arts, in 1987. Bearden died in 1988, at the age of seventy-six.Harry Henderson has written for Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Harper's, Reader's Digest, and Redbook, among other magazines and journals. He previously collaborated with Romare Bearden on Six Black Masters of American Art. Henderson lives in Croton-on-the-Hudson, New York.