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The Street, Romare Howard Bearden, 1964
Romare Bearden, portraitRomare BeardenAmerican, 1912–1988

The Street

1964 · Photograph

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Where is “The Street” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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About the work

“The Street” is from Romare Bearden’s early “Projections” series, which documents the artist’s childhood in North Carolina and his migration to Harlem. These works began as small collages made with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and paint, which were then enlarged using the Photostat copy process—which allowed Bearden to create large–scale reproductions on gelatin silver paper. Speaking later of the series, Bearden said, “What I’ve attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. . . . The medium I used was chosen intentionally because assemblage forges a variety of contrary images into one unified expression.

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Accession number
2015.92

What it shows

New York CityAfrican AmericanBridgeBuildingCatChildCityGuitarsInstrumentsManPeopleWoman

In the catalog

PhotographsPost-war art20th centuryUnited States

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