A $100,000 grant announced Monday will underwrite an exhibition of about 75 Romare Bearden artworks, which will be displayed at the new Mint Museum uptown next year and then go on tour.

Bearden, an internationally known artist who died in 1988, is a Charlotte native. After the pieces are shown at the new Mint for four months beginning in September 2011, they will go on the road to be shown at two other as-yet-unannounced venues, the museum said Monday.”