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Richmond Barthé (l.) internationally recognized sculptor, began his career as a painter before changing to three-dimensional art in 1928. Considered virtually without peers among his Negro colleagues, he is represented in collections in America, Europe and Africa.

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Richard hunt has made swift, and relatively recent, rise in art world with his provocative works of scrap metal parts welded into bizarre shapes and designs. Already represented in several important museums in U. S. and abroad, he is product of Chicago.

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Charles White, noted for his masterful drawings, is popular among art lovers although his largely representational works deviate drastically from current abstract vogue. While a pupil in Chicago public school, he once refused to study U. S. history text book because it omitted Negroes.

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John Biggers, professor of art at Texas Southern University and painter-sculptor-printmaker of national renown, masters realistic treatment of subjects with same ease as he does surrealistic symbolism depicted in his mural in background. He was born in Gastonia, N. C. in 1924.

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