LECTURE | Romare Bearden: American Modernist May 7, 2011

Dr. Jacqueline Francis, co-editor and contributor to Romare Bearden: American Modernist, will present a lecture on this twentieth-century modernist. The lecture will address Bearden's art, career, and life (1911-1988) in New York in City, as well as his sojourns to Charlotte, North Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Paris, France; and the Caribbean island of St. Maarten--all locales which influenced his artistic practice and subject matter. Dr. Francis will also talk about the state of Bearden scholarship, for it has been the focus of art history, literary studies, and art criticism.

Dr. Francis is an art historian specializing in twentieth-century U.S. art. She teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her book, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. She serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, an international organization serving students, artists, scholars, and other creative professionals working in the visual arts.

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