Carolina Blue

Romare Bearden · 1970

This is Carolina Blue — a print by Bearden, nineteen seventy. A screenprint, the ink pushed through a stencilled mesh — flat unmodulated colour, and one screen for every colour in it.

Medium Screenprint with collage additions · Dimensions composition: 23 7/8 × 17 7/8" (60.6 × 45.4 cm); sheet: 27 1/2 × 21" (69.8 × 53.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Arne H. Ekstrom

Hanging beside it in Gallery 416: He Is Arisen, Beginning to Loom Larger and Larger on the Horizon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Atlantic City, Merz Picture 32 A. The Cherry Picture (Merzbild 32 A. Das Kirschbild), Notes 4 (C. I. A. Brand Bananas), L'Abbatoire No. VI (The Slaughterhouse No. VI), Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, Great Indian Bazaar

More by Romare Bearden here: Patchwork Quilt, Prevalence of Ritual/Conjur Woman No. 1, Music on the Gallery, He Is Arisen, Carolina Morning, The Baptism