Stephanie Mayer Heydt

Emma I. Hansen

A sweeping look at 100 years of art and material culture from the American frontier

From the Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Art of the American Frontier

Robert G. O'Meally

Rachael Z. Delue

Paul Devlin

In November 1977, The New Yorker published a feature-length biography of artist Romare Bearden by Calvin Tomkins as part of its ?Profiles? series. The essay, titled Profile: Putting Something Over Something Else (using Bearden?s words to describe the creative process), brought national focus to Bearden, whose rise had seemed meteoric since the late 1960s. The experience of the interview prompted Bearden to launch an autobiographical collection he called Profiles. He sequenced the project in two parts: Part I, The Twenties, featuring memories from his youth in the South and in Pittsburgh, and Part II, The Thirties, about his early adult life in New York. Bearden collaborated with friend and writer Albert Murray on a short statement to accompany each piece. These appeared scripted onto the walls of the Profile exhibition to lead viewers on a visual and poetic journey. This landmark volume, reassembles and reconsiders Bearden?s Profile series. Beyond providing the opportunity to explore an understudied body of work, the project will investigate the roles of narrative and self-presentation for an artist who made a career of creating works based on memory and experience. It will also reveal Bearden?s own gestures away from the autobiographical and toward a broader view.

Romare Bearden's Profile Series

Something Over Something Else

Stephanie Mayer

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College, held June 9-September 2, 2012, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and at six other institutions at later dates.

Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College

Rising Up

Stephanie Mayer Heydt

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