The Baptism

Romare Bearden · c. 1972

This is The Baptism — a print by Bearden, around nineteen seventy-two. It's collagraph, about 31 by 42 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the war, and the group of people.

Medium Collagraph · Dimensions composition: 12 1/4 × 16 3/8" (31.1 × 41.6 cm); sheet: 15 1/8 × 19" (38.4 × 48.3 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 416: Carolina Morning, The Conjur Woman

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