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RICHMOND BARTHE /
Born January 28, 1901; s, Richmond Barthe and Clementine Raboceau; student Chicago Art Institute, 1924-1928; study under Charles Schroeder, unmarried. Began as painter; sculptor since 1928. Exhibited Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, N'.Y.C.; Century of Progress, Chicago; Dallas Museum; Philadelphia Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Sculptors Guild, Audubon Artists. Received $500 prize, Artists for Victory Exhibition, M.Y. City 1>942. Awarded Julius Rcsenwald Fellowship 1931, 1932; Guggenheim fellowships, 1940, 1941; Hon. M.A., Xavier University New Orleans, La., 1934; Hon. Dr. of Fine Arts, St. Francis College,
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1947; Citation and Award from American Academy of Arts & Letters and the National Academy of Arts & Letters, 1945; Audubon Artists Gold Medal of Honor, 1945; James J. Hoey Award for Inter-Racial Justice, 1945; received Key to City of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 1964. Zti &'?>	??
Began as a painter, switched to sculpture in 1928. Has exhibited in most leading museums. Represented in Whitney - Museum; Metropolitan Museum; I.B.M. Collection, N.Y.C.; Oberlin College Museum, Ohio; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; The Gibbes Museum, Charleston, S.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Tuskegee University, Alabama; University of Southern Mississipp Hattiesburg, Miss.; Church of St. Jude, Montgomery, Ala.; Church of St.
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Jude, South Bend, Ind.; College of St. Mary of the Springs, Columbus,
risk University, Tc-r.n.; Vale University; Arthur Brisbane Memorial York City; Theosophical Society, Adyar, India; Countee Collen Library,
New York City; Schomberg Collection, New York City; and Jamaican Public Library, St. Ann's Bay, Jama i ca, W.I.
-osijr.ed coins, loussair.t L1 Ouvertura monument and Dessaiines ~rrv-.r.cr.;
:_-r Haitian Government. Also is represented in Phillips Galleries,
Insrifj: ?- . i ?; i j I Security iioard Hid-.;. in .Washington, 0.