This week, the editors feature “Romare Bearden Sees in a Memory,” an essay by Myron Schwartzman, author of Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (1990), that appeared in the magazine in May 1984. “Battle Lines,” scholar Michael Lobel’s essay on the artist’s work in the 1930s, appears in Artforum’s current issue.When Schwartzman wrote “Romare Bearden Sees in a Memory,” Bearden himself was sixty-nine years old and widely celebrated for his singular style. “On the one hand,” Schwartzman observes, “he absorbed the legacy of the Cubists, Matisse, and Mondrian, and had established his reputation as a