The Conjur Woman

Romare Bearden · 1964

Before you is The Conjur Woman — a drawing by Bearden, nineteen sixty-four. Gouache, which is watercolour made opaque with chalk so it covers the paper rather than staining it.

Medium Cut-and-pasted printed paper and gouache on board · Dimensions 12 1/8 x 9 3/8" (30.6 x 23.7 cm) · Credit Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 416: The Baptism, Prevalence of Ritual/Conjur Woman No. 1

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