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Casting Feral Benga: A Biography of Richmond Barthé's Signature Work
by Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes, a 2002 Anyone Can Fly Foundation Professional Scholars Grant recipient.
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James Richmond Barthé (1901-1989)
was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi into a
family of devout Roman Catholic Creoles.
Barthé was an introverted child prone to
daydreaming and reading fairytales several
times over.  He began making pictures by
copying typography and photographs from
local newspapers and popular self-help
magazines like Physical Culture all the while
ignoring his schoolwork. Not surprisingly, his
formal education ended at age fourteen. By
this time, Barthé was a voracious reader with
impressive self-taught drawing talent. Two
years later, he left home for New Orleans to
accept employment as a houseboy for a wellheeled
family who summered in Bay St.
Louis. Barthé held that position for eight
years. While living in the midst of European
finery, his artistic tastes and influences
matured towards the nineteenth-century
Romanticism and Neoclassical painting
collected by his employers.
--Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes, June 2003
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