MS01.01.03.B02.F23.091

[essay?] account of the exihbition services
of the foundation outlining his
objections to the lack of standards
in the [exhibition] program. Bearden's article, [entitled]
"The Negro Artist and Modern Art" made
[left] [a] Brady [equally] as suspicious of his
actions [him] as she was of Porter's. [*35 36*] His
article entitled "The Negro Artist's Dilemma",
written in 1946, did not convince Brady that [Bearden] he was
benovelant to the Black cause or [its]
the [*insuing*] efforts of the [Harm??] foundation. ¢ [After hearing] [*Nearly 30 years after Bearden article appears in the Forum of Negro Life*]
Brady learning [*nearly 30 years later*] that Bearden had [*again used his pen to express his concern about Black artists*]. He wrote to
Marvin Sadik, of the Boudoin College Museum
of Art, Suggesting that morE Black Artists
should have been included in the landmark
exhibition [*Sadik?*] he curated at [Boudoin] the
College [illegible] in 1964. [Brady's response called]
"The Portrayal of the Negro in American
Painting" Brady wrotE:

"I am
afraid that Romaire Bearden doesn't do his homework before he launches off
with critical letters. His comment goes back to the time, many years ago now,
when he wrote an article, I think in Phylon, downgrading the Foundation,
without ever bothering to come down to see what we were doing.

He has made pretty much a full circle in his philosophical
attitude, but I am afraid he is still a stormy petrel. He has done, as you

undoubtedly know, very well in the last few years. Where formerly he seemed
to object entirely to race, he has become pretty completely racial at the
present time. "38
[*35 [See 28 original [Harm??] paper] - Lewis, Art African American 114*]
But perhaps most [telling] revealing about
how Brady attempted to orchestrate
Bearden, Romare. "The Negro Artist and Modern Art". [*The opportunity, No.12 (December 1934), pages 371-373*]
"The Nego Artist's Dilemma". Critique: A Review of Contemporary Art 1, No 2
(November, 1946) : K-22

[Left margin: [36 same as] 38 same as 33
same as 34
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