Richmond Barthé

Richmond Barthe, a complete James Richmond Barthe (died January 28, 1901 in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, USA, March 6, 1989, in Pasadena, California), American sculptor, Harlem Renaissance important participant

Barthe was born in Africa, the descendant of French and indigenous Americans. At the age of 23, he went to Chicago where he studied art at the Chicago Art Museum from 1924 to 1928. Although he was originally a painter, in his proposal by one of his teachers he attempted sculpture having a special gift. He inscribed the requested work of Henry O. Tanner and Toussaint Louverture. Batai is one of the first contemporary artists who painted African-Americans. After his first exhibition, he won the Julius Rosenwald Foundation scholarship which allowed him to study in New York. His work was very popular from the 1930s to the 1940s and was exhibited at the Century Progress Expo in Chicago in 1933. In 1946, Barthé received the Arts Prize from the College of American Art Academy and Arts and Letters. His life in New York is very busy, productive and portrait bust mission is very rich. When I got tired of New York, the battery built a house in Jamaica. He left Jamaica in 1970 and traveled to Italy, Switzerland and Spain, he returned to America in 1977 and lived in Pasadena, California. During this period of his life, he made friends with the actor James Ghana and gained his support.

Born in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi, James Richmond Barthé became a god Roman Catholic Creole family. His father, Richmond Barthe, died of pneumonia when Rich became one month after birth, and raised him mother alone. As an adult, Barthé will be proud of his name Richmond. Small "Jimmy" is a weak and introverted child, but he has extraordinary talent for painting. His fourth grade teacher and his parish priests influenced the aesthetic development of the young Richmond, and he showed great hope as an artist when he was young. Barthé spends hours copying newspaper and magazine illustrations at once, but his poor physical condition led to a long absence and when his age was 12 his formal education was over. The southern "colored" Americans are forbidden to enter his art school close to their home in New Orleans, Louisiana, so Barut is almost self-taught.

James Richmond Barthe (aka Richmond Barthe) (January 28, 1901 - March 5, 1989) is an African-American sculptor related to Harlem Renaissance. Bat is known for his black topic depiction. The focus of his art work is to express human diversity and spirituality. "I am interested in capturing the spiritual qualities that people see and feel in my life The image of the human being created by God is the best that expresses this spirit to man I think it's a way. "

James Richmond Barthé was born in St. Louis Bay, Mississippi. His father's name is Richmond Barthé, and his mother's name is Marie Clementine Robateau. Barthé's father passed away at the age of 22. He was only a few months old and made her mother nurtured alone. Barthé remarried William Franklin before going to elementary school and finally got five children. Since he was a child he has shown his passion and skill to painting. In many ways, his mother decided to turn the art into a profession. "When I crawled on the floor, my mother let me play with paper and a pen, please keep quiet when I work on my feet.I drew a picture when I was 6 years old That woman gave me a pair of watercolors, by that time I painted it very well. "