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Order of Service
Welcome .......................................Clementine Williams
Entrance	I'm	Blessed	St. Rose Gospel Choir
Read in Silence:
Life & Works of Dr. Richmond Barthe'
Soft Music.................Al Acker
First Reading ................................. Marguerite Bennett
Responsorial Psalm
Second Reading ......................................... Marcus Martin
Alleluia Response ...............................................Choir
Gospel/Homily ................................. Fr. Borgia Aubespin
General Intercessions .........................Clementine Williams
Presentation of Gifts
Bread and Wine ................................ Kimberly/Pam Martin
Dr. Barthe'?s Works of Art .................................. Family
Offertory Song Keep on Proving Yourself Phillip Williams/Choir
Communion Touch Me Phillip Williams/Robert Weaver
and Choir
Recessional	Prayer Will Fix It	Charles Joseph/Choir
Life and Works of Dr. Richmond Barthe7
Internationally renowed sculptor Dr. Richmond "Jimmy" Barthe' of Pasadena, California, a former native son of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, died March 6, 1989 in Pasadena. He was 88 years of age. Richmond was born in Bay St. Louis on January 28,1901, the son of Richmond Barthe' and Clementine Raboteau Barthe' Franklin. Dr. Barthe's father passed away when he was just a baby. His mother was a seamstress in the community and it was her custom to give him paper and pencils to keep him busy while she sewed. From this early introduction to paper and pencil, Richmond started drawing and his life in the field of art began to unfold.
Richmond left school early to help support his mother. At the age of 16, the Harry S. Pond family of New Orleans employed him as a butler. Mr. Pond gave him his first oil paint set as a Christmas gift. The first exhibit of his paintings were at a church festival in New Orleans and featured his life-size paintings of the head of Christ. Father Harry Cane of the Blessed Sacrament Parish was so impressed that he helped Barthe' attend the Chicago Art Institute. Though he had studied four years to become a painter, it was his evocative cast, bronze clay sculptures that caught the eye of collectors and critics. In the late 1920s, just as he had finished his first two busts, Barthe' explained, "something happened in America that had never happened before anywhere else in the world. They were going to celebrate 'Negro Art Week.'
"The organizers went around Chicago gathering every drawing, sketch, every painting done by Negroes, but there wasn't one piece of sculpture. They heard about my two heads and came and grabbed them.
"I said, 'But I'm a painting student,' but they exhibited them, and the critics praised them."
Considered one of the most promising young black artists of the day, Barthe' earned awards, honors and commissions by the score. He exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and at museums in Dallas, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. His work is included in the permanent collections of 37 museums in 17 countries.
Perhaps his most popular commission is the giant eagle gracing the entrance to the Social Security Building in Washington. He also designed coins and created a monumental sculpture of black general and Haitian liberator Toussaint L'Ouverture for the government of Haiti.
After leaving New York in the late 1940s, Barthe lived in Jamaica for 20 years and in Europe before retiring to Pasadena in the mid-1970s.
He was given a special recognition award by then-President Jimmy Carter in 1980, and received more than 100 awards during his lifetime. Included among his honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940 and a Citation Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters in 1946. A room is named after him in the New York City Public Library and, in addition to the one in Pasadena, a street in his Mississippi home town was renamed for him.
Since his death, much of Dr. Barthe's collections are on display in the Amis-tead Archives RoomatTulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dr. Barthe' never married. He is survived by one brother, Louis Franklin of St. Albans, N.Y.; and three sisters, Edna Wright of Houston, Texas, Rita Wiggins of Oakland, California, and Louise Williams of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.