Untitled [Mother and Child]

Artist Romare Bearden (American, 1911 - 1988)

Date1969

MediumCollage on board

DimensionsOverall Inches: 13-5/16 x 9-13/16 inches, frame: 14-7/8 x 11-3/8 x 1-5/8 inches; Overall Centimeters: 33.8 x 24.9 cm, frame: 37.7 x 28.7 x 4.2 cm

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.30

Collections

ClassificationsCollage or Assemblage

Object NameCollage

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedtop left corner: romare bearden

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; February Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; “Exactitude ain’t Interesting” Romare Bearden, Louis Stern Galleries, Beverly Hills, January 14–March 6, 1992; Romare Bearden: Recent Collages, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, February 11–March 7, 1970 [possibly one of several untitled collages] ProvenanceProvenance Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby’s Arcade, New York, September 29, 1994, sale 1482, lot 500 Acquired in 1997 from Kraushaar Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesModern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, September 29, 1994 (New York: Sotheby’s, 1994), n.p. (ill., no. 500) Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 127-129, 172, (ill. 128, 172). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 117, 118 (ill.).