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The stunningly colorful and diverse works of Romare Bearden (1911-1988) and Sedrick Huckaby (b. 1975) are currently on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX. The selection of Bearden's works, featuring his Odyssey series of collages and watercolors, and Huckaby's painting, Hidden In Plain Site, form a wonderful juxtaposition of vision by two outstanding African-American artists.
Romare Bearden (1911–1988) Home to Ithaca, 1977 Collage© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Courtesy of the Mount Holyoke Art Museum missed.
Huckaby, who says that he was heavily influenced by Bearden, uses his grandmother (Big Mama) and the quilts she made as the subject for many of his works as an expression of the art she created using bits of cloth. This quiet and unassuming artist shares more about his work and vision in a recent Swathmore College interview here.
For more information about the Amon Carter exhibit, as well as other locations for the Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, click here.
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