Romare Bearden Honored By United States Postal Service
Today the United States Post Office issued commemorative stamps celebrating the life of iconic artist Romare Bearden. The stamps which come in four different designs, each with an iconic Bearden collage, coincides with the 100th anniversary of his birth. Make sure that you get you some stamps and celebrate a man who sought to change people's perspective via art.  -YG (@youngglobal)
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Born a century ago in North Carolina's Meklenburg County, the American painter and collagist Romare Bearden (1911–1988) moved with his family to New York when he was 3 years old. While many of his most famous images—including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "The Block" (1971), depicting a teeming section of Lennox Avenue in Harlem—focus on scenes of African-American urban life, Bearden never strayed far in his work from the countryside and people he glimpsed as a child in rural North Carolina.
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