Romare Bearden mined a wide range of sources: the Bible, the writings of French satirist François Rabelais, his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, the people and streets of Harlem, the epic poems of Homer, and more.
Bearden portrays Odysseus poised triumphantly on the ship’s bow, a shield in one hand
blue, yellow, red, and pink flowers, woven with strands of ivy, dangles in the hand
His right elbow rests on the arm of the chair so his hand rests in his lap.
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
Sitting before a table in the recesses of his prison cell, Saint Paul has brought his hand
Baron" lower left margin, graphite. "1978" lower right margin, graphite, artist’s hand
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Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1961. 1993 Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance
left in graphite: III/V; lower center in graphite: Elaine de Kooning; by later hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions "5 / Radcliffe / 6/99" verso, black crayon, artist’s hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions "Radcliffe 6/99 NYT" verso, black crayon, artist’s hand
