This free-standing, bronze-colored sculpture shows the head, neck, and the center of the collarbone of a young, bald boy. In this photograph, the boy faces us with his chin slightly lowered. He looks out from under a projecting brow. He has a flaring nose and his full lips are closed. The hollow of his throat is deep, and light glints off the tendons to each side. His chest is cropped to either side of his neck to create a trapezoidal shape just below his collarbone. The sculpture sits on a thin wooden base. The background is fog gray.

Richmond Barthé, Head of a Boy, c. 1930, painted plaster, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), 2014.136.295

Barthé, Bellows, and Van Loo

Break for Art

Saturday, April 6, 2024
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
West Building, Main Floor - Rotunda

Talks
In-person

What drives our passion for certain art pieces?

Join us for one-hour of gallery talks with National Gallery interns. This session includes dynamic presentations reflecting our interns’ diverse artistic interests and passions: Richmond Barthé’s Head of a Boy (c. 1930), George Bellows’ Blue Morning (1909), and Charles Amédée Philippe Van Loo’s The Camera Obscura (1764).