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ROMARE BEARDEN (1911 - 1988)
Memories (The Train)
.
Color aquatint, etching and photo engraving, 1974. 455x560 mm; 17
7
/
8
x22 inches, full margins.
One of a small group of monotypes with unique coloring, printed from the key plate, and aside
from the edition of 125. Signed, titled and numbered 1/1 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the
artist and Robert Blackburn, NewYork. Published by Transworld Art, NewYork.
When Romare Bearden was commissioned to make
TheTrain
, he and Bob Blackburn created a new
combination of etching and photo engraving to re-create the appearance of his collage. One of
Bearden’s best known and innovative prints,
The Train
was then described by John Loring in
Arts
Magazine
as one of the ten most important prints of our time.The print is based on the same-titled
collage also from 1974, which is in turn based on the photomontage collage
Mysteries
, one of the
artist’s earliest works from 1964. Other experimental printings from this matrix are a series entitled
12 Trains
(see Gelburd/Rosenberg p 14). Not in Gelburd/Rosenberg.
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