"In Romare Bearden (1914-88) Harlem found its own history painter, an artist who won dominion over form by studying the Old Masters, and then reinvigorated it with the jazzy rhythms pioneered in painting by Stuart Davis, the master of...
"Under the title 'Le Paradis des Negres' or 'Black Paradise,' photographs of two young women are juxtaposed in typical Surrealist fashion. The first, a young woman from the Congo, is posed naked against a backdrop of the forest's long grass....