Boxer by Richmond Barthé
Art Institute of Chicago

Boxer

Richmond Barthé · 1942

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Frank Breckenridge, Chicago, by June 4, 1948 [incoming permanent receipt R9285, June 4, 1948; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, International Print Society, <em>Sculpture by Richmond Barthé</em>, Mar. 26–Apr. 14, 1945, brochure.
  • Los Angeles, Landau/Travelling Exhibitions, <em>Two Sculptors, Two Eras: Richmond Barthé, Richard Hunt</em>, cat.; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, June 16–Aug. 9, 1992; Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum, Dec. 20, 1992–Feb. 28, 1993; Hampton, VA, Hampton University Museum, Apr. 1–May 14, 1993; Chattanooga, TN, Hunter Museum of Art, Dec. 5, 1993–Jan. 30, 1994, Dallas, African American Museum, Feb. 15–Apr. 15, 1994; Lubbock, TX, Museum of Texas Tech., c. May 1–Aug. 14, 1994; New Orleans Museum of Art, Sept. 1–Oct. 31, 1994; Odessa, TX, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, no dates; Columbus, OH, King Arts Complex, no dates; Monroe, LA, Masur Museum of Art, c. Jan. 1–c. Feb. 28, 1995.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Feb. 15–May 18, 2003, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • International Print Society, <em>Sculpture by Richmond Barthé</em>, exh. brochure (International Print Society, 1945), cat. 8 (listed, not ill.).
  • Samella Lewis, <em>Two Sculptors; Two Eras: Richmond Barthé, Richard Hunt</em>, exh. cat. (Landau/Travelling Exhibitions, 1992), 3 (ill.).
  • Margaret Rose Vendryes, <em>Expression and Repression of Identity: Race, Religion, and Sexuality in the Art of American Sculptor Richmond Barthé</em> (PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1997), 379–87 (ill.).
  • Susan F. Rossen et al., “African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, 2 (1999): 141, 184, 200–201, no. 11 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), 285-86, cat. 139 (ill.).
  • Jordana Moore Saggese, <em>Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art</em>, (University of California Press, 2014) (ill.).
  • Jordan Carter and Sarah Kelly Oehler, "Black Art Matters to This Prominent Museum," interview by Wendy Altschuler, <em>Forbes</em>, June 8, 2020, <a href="https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum"> https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum</a> (ill.).

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