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The theatre, as represented by the drama and the dance, has always been one of Richmond Barthe's major interests and naturally he turned to it for subjects early in his career as a sculptor. Harald Kreutiberg and Rose McClendon, friends of the artist, were perhaps the original inspiration for the idea of the lit+le group now on exhibition in this gallery. It is probable, too, that the dancer and the actress posed, and more than once, for the portraits which represent them.
Latterly, however, the sculptor has altered his technique in this matter. He prefers to study his subjects from a chair in the orchestra, during a performance. He went again and again to see John Gielgud, Katharine Cornell, and Muriel Smith in Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Carmen, and gradually acquired a deep sympathy for the insides of the characters they were portraying. An actor in a studio is quite likely to be dead, but on the stage he lives, the success of his roles depending on his talent for expression. So it was on the stage itself that Barthe determined to look for his inspiration and on the stage he found it.
Sometimes he has invited his model in at the end for a final sitting "for corrections," but this can be dangerous, he has discovered, because he can be misled, by the appear* ance of the actual person, into criticizing a detail already successfully expressed in clay, which he had really seen happen in the theatre.
There is another interesting fact to record about these heads and figures. One or two of them have been orders, but for the most part they are the artist's own choice of subjects. In other words, he has selected from his theatre-going the actors and dancers he has preferred to preserve in marble or bronie. So there is nothing accidental or tentative about the fact that he has recreated them in clay. They are all distinguished figures and he has awarded them his warmest and most sympathetic attention. He will be delighted to learn that he has made them live again in the eyes of the spectator.
I. KATHARINE CORNELL AS "JULIET" 2 JOHN GIELGUD AS "HAMLET?
3.	MAURICE EVANS AS "RICHARD II"
4.	LAURENCE OLIVIER AS "HOTSPUR"
5.	FANlA MARINOFF AS "ARIEL"
Loaned by Mr. Carl Van Vechten
6.	ROSE McCLENDON AS "SERENA"
Loaned by Mrs. Arthur Holden
7.	JUDITH ANDERSON AS "MARY"
8.	MURIEL SMITH AS "CARMEN JONES"
9.	"CHORAL" (HARALD KREUTZBERG)
Loaned by Mr. Leo Epstein
10.	GEORGE ZORITCH
11.	JAMES MITCHELL
12.	MASK OF ROSE McCLENDON
13.	FERAL BENGA
14.	GYPSY ROSE LEE
15.	RAM GOPAL
16.	JIMMIE DANIELS
Loaned by Mr. Alan Wolfe
17.	CANADA LEE
18.	HARALD KREUTZBERG
January 22, 1947
Carl Van Vechten