about The Family from "An American Portrait"

This print by Romare Bearden typifies the subject matter that made him famous: the work depicts an average African American family preparing for a meal.

Based on a collage from which numerous photo-etching plates were made, the work is among the artist’s most ambitious prints, conceptually and technically. In it Bearden used photographic snippets derived from popular magazines like Ebony and The Saturday Evening Post.