Romie We Love You

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A silkscreen print tribute to Romare Bearden by Faith Ringgold. The print features an illustrated portrait of Bearden at center, holding one of his cats. Surrounding Bearden are blocks repeating “ROMIE WE LOVE YOU” in a diamond quilt pattern, one word in each colorful triangle. Bearden is depicted in yellow, with the surrounding quilt blocks in blues, reds, orange and black. A decorative border of grey flowers with orange, blue, and black leaves surrounds the central block design. Dedication text reads [Romie We Love You: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of your birthday on Sept 2, 2011] at top and [your art so beautiful and true for all the world to see you love us too. Faith Ringgold] at bottom. Along the bottom margin is [10/30] at left, [Romie We Love You] at center and the artist’s signature [Faith Ringgold 7/20/12] at right.

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