Constructing Identity: Portland Art Museum

28 January - 18 June 2017

Romare Bearden 1911-1988

Circe, 1978

Tapestry

58 x 83 in.
147.3 x 210.8 cm

PFF189

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Wool tapestry with nap

Provenance

Treadway-Toomey Auction

Exhibitions

"Queens, Gods, and Devotees", Maguire Art Museum. Dates: Sep 23, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024.

"Mobility: African American Artists Abroad", Truman State University. Dates: Jan 02, 2024 - Mar 08, 2024.

"Outlines: Explorations of Form from 20th Century African-American Artists", Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. Dates: Jan 27, 2023- May 31, 2023.

"Figures & Projections", Kutztown University. Dates: Oct 28, 2021 - Dec 12, 2021.

"Afrocosmologies", Wadsworth Atheneum. Dates: Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 20, 2020.

"An Essential Presence: The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Allentown Art Museum. Dates: Jun 02, 2019 - Sep 01, 2019.

"Ain't I America: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Hampton University. Dates: Jan 25, 2019 - May 11, 2019.

"Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Portland Art Museum. Dates: Jan 28, 2017 - Jun 18, 2017.

Publications

1. Multiple Contributors, (2021), "FIGURES AND PROJECTIONS: Selected Works from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Kutztown University - Figures and Projections, Catalog, Kutztown University, Miller Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Dan Haxall and Karen Stanford, https://issuu.com/millerku/docs/pff_at_ku 2. Berrisford Boothe, Moe Brooker, Brian Ferriso, James G. Petrucci, (2017), "Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art", Portland Art Museum – Constructing Identity, Catalog, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Gretchen Dykstra

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Constructing Identity: Portland Art Museum

Romare Bearden 1911-1988

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