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collage collage
Not currently on view
Gift of Bank of America
“I use the train as a symbol of the other civilization—the white civilization, and its encroachment on the lives of the blacks. The train was always something that could take you away.” Romare Bearden In this small but dynamic collage, Romare Bearden depicts a family gathered together at a table inside a humble wooden dwelling. Each element of the composition – from the faces and bodies of the figures (the one on the right holding a small child, and all gazing outward at the viewer) to the food that they eat to the structure of the home itself – is pieced together from a range of disparate elements that have been brought together to create a dynamic whole. In the window on the upper left hand side of the composition the train steams by. The Train is, in fact, directly related to an even earlier Photostat collage titled Mysteries, created in the 1960s. The artist has re-used many of the elements from this collage but incorporated them into a more colorful composition.
Accession Number: 2002.68.2
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