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African American Collection on Display at JCSM, Auburn University
Released: November 15, 2011AUBURN, Ala. - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents the exhibition, Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection, on display in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C from Dec. 10, 2011-March 10, 2012. Promises of Freedom features an impressive range of works from a significant private collection of African American art. The exhibition includes 75 paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints by more than 30 artists and spans a period of 150 years. Highlighting artwork by Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, ...
Romare Bearden: An Artist Remembers His Birthplace
Released: August 23, 2011In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Romare Bearden’s birth, Jerald Melberg Gallery presents a major exhibition of over forty collages, watercolors and prints featuring the artist’s memories of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Romare Bearden was born in his great-grandfather's house in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the morning of September 2, 1911. Although at the time this was the rural south, his family was prosperous and well respected. At the age of two, Bearden moved with his parents to New York City where they felt there was more opportunity to pursue their interests in jour...
The Figure at Jerald Melberg Gallery
Released: September 7, 2010THE FIGURE September 18 - November 13, 2010Jerald Melberg Gallery presents an exhibition highlighting gallery artists who use the figure either as the primary or secondary subject in their works of art. The exhibition features paintings, sculpture and works on paper by Romare Bearden, Isabel Bishop, Chuck Close, Raul Diaz, Susan Grossman, Hans Hofmann, Paul Resika, Manuel Reyna and Charles White, among others. Although we do not envision ourselves to be a figurative gallery nor are we considered one, it struck me that a significant number of our artists actually do use the figure, perhaps s...
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