- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Firebirds
- Creator:
- Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
- Date of Original:
- 1979
- Subject:
- African American prints--United States
Birds
Mythology
Human figure in art
African Americans in art
Prints, American - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- lithographs
prints (visual works) - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Lithograph by Romare Bearden.
Bearden's collages and prints delineate an African American cultural mythology; knowledge of the African American experience is key to understanding his work. In this print, three women stand beneath a crest of two gray birds flanking a brown sun. Birds play a symbolic role in Bearden's expansive body of work; they symbolize migration, journey and displacement. They may also represent messengers from the spirit world, or be seen as symbols of the head as the house of knowledge, which adds significance to the placement of the birds in this image.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04122011-100
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04122011-100
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 print (number 117 from an edition of 300) : lithograph, color ; 90 x 72 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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