Object Information
Richmond Barthé
American, 1901-1989
The Boxer, 1942
Bronze
47.6 x 30.9 x 17.6 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.) (with base)
Simeon B. Williams Fund, 1948.79
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, International Print Society, Sculpture by Richmond Barthé, Mar. 26-Apr. 14, 1945, cat. 8.
Los Angeles, Landau/Travelling Exhibitions, Two Sculptors, Two Eras: Richmond Barthé, Richard Hunt, no cat., p. 3; traveled to Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, June 16–Aug. 9, 1992; Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum, Dec. 20, 1992–Feb. 28, 1993, Hampton, Virginia, Hampton University Museum, Apr. 1–May 14, 1993, Chattanooga, Tenn., Hunter Museum of Art, Dec. 5, 1993–Jan. 30, 1994, Dallas, African American Museum, Feb. 15–Apr. 15, 1994, Lubbock, Museum of Texas Tech, c. May 1-Aug. 14, 1994, New Orleans Museum of Art, Sept. 1–Oct. 31, 1994, Odessa, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, no dates, Columbus, Ohio, King Arts Complex, no dates, Monroe, Louisiana, Masur Museum of Art, c. Jan. 1–c. Feb. 28, 1995.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 15-May 18, 2003, no cat.
Publication History
Margaret Rose Vendryes, Expression and Repression of Identity: Race, Religion, and Sexuality in the Art of American Sculptor Richmond Barthé (Ph.D. Diss, Princeton University, 1997), pp. 379-87.
Susan F. Rossen et al., “African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (1999), pp. 141, 184, 200–01, no. 11.
Ownership History
Frank Breckenridge, Chicago, by 1948; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.