A new biography explores Bearden’s life, art and ties to the region: “Romare Bearden in the Homeland of his Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South.” (UNC Press, $40.

A new biography explores Bearden’s life, art and ties to the region: “Romare Bearden in the Homeland of his Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South.” (UNC Press, $40.

When harassment from a white mob forced the family of renowned artist Romare Bearden to flee their Charlotte home for Harlem in 1915, he was only four years old. In a new biography, Romare Bearden ...

R om are Bearden’s long and varied career has generated a weighty shelf of art-historical scholarship, but various aspects of his life remain elusive. In May 2011, The New Criterion published the ...

Romare Bearden the man was born in Charlotte in 1911 at 401 South Graham, only a few blocks from the park, near what is now Bank of America Stadium.

Romare Bearden and family in Charlotte, circa 1920. Front row, from left: great-grandfather Henry Kennedy, Romare at age 8 or 9, great-grandmother Rosa Catherine Kennedy. Back row, from left: aunt ...

A new biography of artist and Charlotte NC native Romare Bearden covers his connections to Harlem, August Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, baseball and World War II.

A new biography of artist and Charlotte NC native Romare Bearden covers his connections to Harlem, August Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, baseball and World War II.

A new biography of artist and Charlotte NC native Romare Bearden covers his connections to Harlem, August Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, baseball and World War II.

A new biography explores Bearden’s life, art and ties to the region: “Romare Bearden in the Homeland of his Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South.” (UNC Press, $40.

A new biography explores Bearden’s life, art and ties to the region: “Romare Bearden in the Homeland of his Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South.” (UNC Press, $40.