The Art of Romare Bearden, Ruth Fine, National Gallery of Art 2003, Very Good HC

Fine, Ruth, The Art of Romare Bearden, Washington DC: National Gallery of Art 2003, English, Very Good hardcover 4to, 9 ½” x 11 ¼”, 334 pp. w/ bibliography + index, 224 color plates, 86 black-and-white illustrations.

ISBN 9780810946408

Black cloth boards with grey title to spine, in Very Good dust jacket w/ minor wear, wrinkling to upper edge and tiny dings to spine. Binding tight. Mild temperature waffling to pages (not water damage). Profusely illustrated catalog for the travelling exhibition shown at five different US venues in 2004 and 2005. A comprehensive overview of the work and life of the prolific African-American artist working in a wide array of media from the 1940s through the 1980s. A beautiful, extensively researched and essential document of an collage artist and painter.