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JUNE 16,1938
Bay St. Louis
Youngs Man Nationally Known for Sculpture.
New Orleans Times-Picayune of Sunday, May 29, under head of "Pen, Chisel and Brush,? by W. M. Darling, carries a paragraph of local interest since the subject is a native of Bay St. Louis, belonging to the colored race. Richard Barthe?s mother lives in Bay St. Louis and her son visits here when the ppportunity prepen^a. He is connected with the Rochons and other well-known names of the local race.
Mr. Darling, one of the editors of the Times-Picayune, has this comment of Barthe?s work as a scluptor, whose first work of art was painting which he has practically abandoned for the plastic figures. He says:
Reproduction in the New York Times last week of the singularly expressive "African Dancer? by Richard Barthe, which is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, recalls the long list of pieces this 37-year-old Bay St. Louis-born negro sculptor has contributed to galleries here and abroad. He is represented in the Lake County Children?s Home, Gary, Ind., Armstrong High School, Richmond, Va.; the University of Wisconsin; the Anson Phelps Stokes Foundation collection; the New Theater, London, Eng., and in Rumania, Germany, Austria, Virgin Islands and Africa. The Whitney Museum has also two bronzes, ?Blackberry Woman? and ??Harmonica Player.?