Carolina Morning

Romare Bearden · c. 1972

You're looking at Carolina Morning — a print by Bearden, around nineteen seventy-two. It's relief collagraph, about 34 by 46 centimeters. Measured, it is among the most saturated surfaces in this museum — 41 where the typical work sits at 11. In the picture, look for the abstract geometric.

Medium Relief collagraph · Dimensions composition: 13 3/8 × 17 15/16" (34 × 45.5 cm); sheet: 20 3/8 × 24 5/16" (51.8 × 61.8 cm) · Credit John B. Turner Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 416: Patchwork Quilt, The Baptism

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Vortograph, Concrete 61, Curves and Straight Series, Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Connecticut, Untitled (Fragment 6) from Fragments, Untitled (Fragment 1) from Fragments

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