We just learned about the sculpture of Alice in Wonderland by Jose de Creeft.
Another famous American sculpture is Booker T. Washington made by Richmond Barthé in New York in 1946.
In America after the Civil War was over and slavery was made illegal, a lot of African American people who lived as slaves in the south moved to the north to find places to live and get jobs.
Many places in the south were still not very friendly toward African Americans, so they wanted to go to places in the north where they felt more free.
Barthé was born in Mississippi and grew up wanting to be an artist.
He tried to go to a college in the south but they would not let him because he was African American, so he went to art college in Pennsylvania.
Later on he moved to New York where a lot of African Americans were living and getting jobs, and he became a famous artist there.
Booker T. Washington was a famous African American who fought for the rights of freed slaves after the civil war.
(from: wikipedia - richmond barthé)
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