Details

Title

Out Chorus [from the Jazz series]

Artist/Maker

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988)

Date

1980

Medium

Color screenprint

Dimensions

12 7/16 x 16 5/16 inches

Credit

Purchase with general funds for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

1981.105

On View

Currently not on view

Jazz imagery recurs throughout Bearden’s work. He was interested in music from a young age; Duke Ellington, a family friend, bought a painting from his first exhibition. Bearden even dabbled in jazz composition and wrote a hit song, “Seabreeze,” in the early 1950s. In this print, the busy composition and bright colors visually manifest the cacophonous sounds of jazz.

Image Copyright

© Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY