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Barthé

American  
[bahr-tey] / bɑrˈteɪ /

noun

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


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Among those artists were the sculptors Elizabeth Catlett and Richmond Barthé; the photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks; the painter Jacob Lawrence; the poet Gwendolyn Brooks and the visual artist Archibald J. Motley Jr.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2023

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 Dorothy B. Porter

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