![]() “An incredible sense of space created - both interior and exterior space,” Logan says. Such attention to context, color and space is part and parcel of Bearden’s work, says Jonell Logan, local artist, entrepreneur and executive director of the nonprofit League of Creative Interventionists. “Brass Section” suggests the shifting rhythms and movement of jazz, while simultaneously - and perhaps more importantly - placing African-American experiences within a universal, classical and mythic context. For just under $700, the couple acquired Bearden’s lively depiction of three musicians emerging from a swirling abstract background, a jazz trio comprised of two trumpeters and a trombonist. “We were living in Atlanta at the time, and as soon as we got back, we investigated whether any local galleries carried his work.”Īfter visiting yet another Bearden exhibit, this one at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, the Diamonds walked down the street to a private gallery and found the piece that launched their lifelong devotion to collecting art together. “Judy and I both fell in love with Bearden’s work,” Diamond remembers. There they discovered the celebrated collages and paintings of Bearden, the Charlotte-born African-American art pioneer, and it changed their lives forever. It was with Romare Bearden’s painting “Brass Section” that Patrick Diamond took the plunge.ĭiamond and his wife Judy are now influential Charlotte art collectors, but in 1980 they were only novices visiting a one-man exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. ![]() Romare Bearden’s “Brass Section” hangs second from right. Judy and Patrick Diamond in their living room. The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2019.The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2020.The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2021.
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