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...Romare Bearden's sharply observant imagery of black life...
...best stores often run out of goods. Long lines at the cash counters are as common as caterpillars. Says Texas Catalogue King Roger Horchow: "Working women particularly find it's faster and easier to flip through five to ten catalogues than go to five to ten stores." Betty Bearden, 35, founder-president of Atlanta-based Papillon (estimated 1982 sales: $8 million), observes, "The copy alongside the products in our catalogues can tell you more about them than a salesclerk, if you are lucky enough to run into a salesclerk, much less one who knows anything about the product...
...Gene Bearden...
Cocktail Sales. Whether their work is polemical or not, most black artists feel that the art world is controlled by whites and still largely closed to them. True, such artists as Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden have been widely recognized on their merits. Moreover, despite the efforts of the newly zealous black historians, no neglected genius has been turned up. though figures like Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister and Henry O. Tanner have been given refurbished status. The past lack of major black painters is not due to any inherent lack of artistic talent on the part of black...
...younger lesser-knowns, graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives). The committee also complements its postwar selections with 18th and 19th century American wood carvings, South Pacific tapa cloth, Middle Eastern bronzes. In ihe past year, the committee's nod has gone to recent works by Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Ilya Bolotowsky, Adolph Gottlieb, Ludwig Sander, Wojciech Fangor, Otto Piene, Gunther Uecker, Pol Bury. Since Chase plans to open new offices in London, Milan and Puerto Rico, still more additions will be needed to furnish them as well...