0723NymphsNereids

0723NymphsNereids_Beardon

Bearden Foundation site
Ovid Met.

Romare Beardon, "The Sea Nymph," collage, 1972, private collection, Scarsdale, NY. One of the Odysseus Collages.

Brilliant colors, the collage, silhouettes of the mythological figures characterize this important sequence of artworks by this American artist's work.

A vibrant, abstract painting depicting two figures, one submerged in blue water and one on green land, with flowing ribbons and a boat in the distance

ML 8th edition, color plate 21: "Odysseus' ship is tossed on the surface of the wind-blown sea, while below a Nereid (black, like of Bearden's mythological figures) swims down to the body of a drowned sailor, whose clothes unravel like a winding-sheet."

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.