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A piece of artwork by the famed American artist, Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988) entitled "Autumn of the Rooster." Romare Bearden is considered to be one of the greatest contributors to the African American art world. It is a framed lithograph created in 1983.

Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1914. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Harlem in New York City. During the mid-1930s, when Bearden was a student of George Grosz at the Art Students League, he founded the "306 Group" for black artists living in Harlem. Romare Bearden was honored during his lifetime and posthumously with numerous prestigious awards, publications and exhibitions. Along with representation in important public and private collections, he was also awarded the National Medal of the Arts and honored with a groundbreaking retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. A master collagist, Bearden is celebrated today as a preeminent, highly prolific artist of exceptional and multifaceted talents and interests. He was a jazz aficionado, author of scholarly books, a song writer/lyricist as well an arts activist and an engaged humanist. Bearden incorporated into his artwork a rich combination of influences from the art and culture of America, Africa, Asia and Europe and took inspiration from memories and experiences of the rural South, the urban North and the Caribbean. Romare Bearden, painter and collage maker, filled his works with the symbols and myths of the American black experience.