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Barthé

American  
[bahr-tey] / bɑrˈteɪ /

noun

  1. Richmond, 1901–1989, U.S. sculptor.


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Barnes favored cutting-edge modernism; neither a folk artist nor a Cubist, Barthé was closer in style to Rodin than to Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Archipenko and the other sculptors Barnes collected.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

To promote African American artists, Dr. Lewis made short documentary films about sculptors including Barthé and John Outterbridge.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2022

The work, called “Green Pastures: The Walls of Jericho,” by the Black sculptor Richmond Barthé, will require nearly $1.8 million in repairs that the city has delayed for 26 years.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2021

He tells his mother that he prefers Barthé to the better-known sculptor Augusta Savage, “who offered to let me work at her studio, but was too busy to give much instruction.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

Includes exhibition of paintings by Malvin Gray Johnson and sculptures by Richmond Barthé and Sargent Johnson, presented by the Harmon Foundation in cooperation with the Delphic Studios, April 22-May 4, 1935, inclusive.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.