New York City - Whitney Museum: The African Dancer - Richmond Barthé
Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) sculpted the human body with a sensitivity to movement and expression, earning him acclaim during the 1930s and 1940s. At age fourteen Barthé moved from Mississippi to New Orleans, where patrons encouraged him to pursue the formal study of art. Along with fellow African American sculptors Meta Fuller, Elizabeth Catlett, and Augusta Savage, he used figuration and the classical sculptural tradition to depict aspects of black American life and culture, drawing particular inspiration from the worlds of music and dance.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a museum of 20th-century American art. The museum was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with 700 works of her own collection. From 1966 to 2014, the museum was housed on Madison Avenue. As of May 1, 2015, the collection moved to a new building designed by architect Renzo Piano on Gansevoort Street in The West Village.
New York City - Whitney Museum: The African Dancer - Richmond Barthé
Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) sculpted the human body with a sensitivity to movement and expression, earning him acclaim during the 1930s and 1940s. At age fourteen Barthé moved from Mississippi to New Orleans, where patrons encouraged him to pursue the formal study of art. Along with fellow African American sculptors Meta Fuller, Elizabeth Catlett, and Augusta Savage, he used figuration and the classical sculptural tradition to depict aspects of black American life and culture, drawing particular inspiration from the worlds of music and dance.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a museum of 20th-century American art. The museum was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with 700 works of her own collection. From 1966 to 2014, the museum was housed on Madison Avenue. As of May 1, 2015, the collection moved to a new building designed by architect Renzo Piano on Gansevoort Street in The West Village.