New Orleans: Ragging Home
Artist
Romare Bearden
American, 1911–1988
Date1974
MediumCollage of plain, printed, and painted papers, with acrylic, lacquer, graphite, and marker, mounted on Masonite panel
Dimensions36 1/8 x 48 in. (91.8 x 121.9 cm)
Frame: 37 3/8 x 49 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (94.9 x 125.1 x 6 cm)
Frame: 37 3/8 x 49 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (94.9 x 125.1 x 6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and various donors, by exchange
Object number95.3
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesMyron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (New York: Abrams, 1990), illus. (color) 223.
Huston Paschal, "Romare Bearden's New Orleans: Ragging Home, from Of the Blues," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1995-96), 16-17, illus. (b-w) 16, (color) 20-21 & cover (detail),
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview/Annual Report (Spring 1996), listed and illus. (b-w) 70.
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South (New York: Doubleday, 1996), illus. (b-w) 77.
Linda Beatrice Brown, "An excerpt from Dangerous Pretty," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal,ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 122-125, illus. (color) 122, also detail 125.
Huston Paschal, entry for New Orleans: Ragging Home, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 238, illus. (color) 238, detail (color) 239.
Chuck Twardy, "Gifts to ourselves," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997), mentioned 16.
M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 289, no. 19 (May 21, 2003), discussed 2464, illus. (color) 2464 and cover.
Huston Paschal, entry for New Orleans: Ragging Home, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 506, illus. (color) 507.
Carla M. Hanzal, et al, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum of Art, 2011), mentioned 30, illus. (color) 29, pl. 14.
Linda Beatrice Brown, "An Excerpt from Dangerous Pretty" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 204.
Victoria Scott-Miller, The Museum Lives in Me (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2022), illus 14, 15, 33, 34, 35 (artist's illustrations).Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Cordier and Ekstrom, "Of the Blues," February 14-March 15, 1975.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions,” September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009.
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum, "Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections," September 2, 2011-January 8, 2012, cat. illus. (color) 29.
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