Teacher Resource

Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series

Educators can use these key images and lesson resources before or after their students visit “Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series at the High Museum.

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Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting & Model

Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting & Model

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Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Pepper Jelly Lady, 1981, collage on board. Joy and Larry Silverstein. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Peter Harholdt.

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Pepper Jelly Lady, 1981, collage on board. Joy and Larry Silverstein. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Peter Harholdt.

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Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part I, The Twenties, Mecklenberg County, School Bell Time, 1978, collage on board. Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Paul Takeuchi.

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part I, The Twenties, Mecklenberg County, School Bell Time, 1978, collage on board. Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Paul Takeuchi.

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Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part I, The Twenties, Pittsburgh Memories, Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket, 1978, collage of cut paper and fabric with watercolor, graphite pencil, gouache, and felt-tip pen on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum Purchase: The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial and the John J. Emery Endowment, 2011.7. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), Profile/Part I, The Twenties, Pittsburgh Memories, Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket, 1978, collage of cut paper and fabric with watercolor, graphite pencil, gouache, and felt-tip pen on Masonite. Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum Purchase: The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial and the John J. Emery Endowment, 2011.7. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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