In an effort to define the universality of human experience, Romare Bearden drew upon his African American heritage as well as his love of literature and music. He endowed biblical history with an intimate, folkloric quality through the use of rhythmic patterning, flattened design, and disjointed juxtaposition of images. Characteristic of the breadth of Bearden’s compositional repertoire, Noah, Third Day combines Xeroxes of photographs of nature, Greco Roman mosaics, Cubist design, and references to African and early Christian art, thus implying a connection among cultures.