Barbara Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase-Riboud (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli June biɛɣ'pishi ni ayɔbu dali yuuni 1939) nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda, ŋun mɛri yaɣiri, lahabali sabira, ka lahi sabiri yɛltɔɣ'taɣimalisi.

 Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Barbara Chase nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ŋun nyɛ o ba Vivian May Chase mini o ma Charles Edward Chase kɔŋko bia.Smith, Jessie C. (1991). "Barbara Chase Riboud", in Notable Black American Women, p. 177 (Gale Cengage). Chase nyɛla ŋun daa wuhiri baŋsim o bilim ni zaŋ jandi nucheeni baŋsim tuma saha shɛli o ni daa chani Fleisher Art Memorial shikuru, o yuma anii saha. O nyɛla ninvuɣ bɛ ni daa na kari so shikuru ni din daa niŋ ka o "plagiarizing" o yɛltɔɣitaɣimalisi "Autumn Leaves". O nyɛla ŋun chaŋ Philadelphia High School for Girls bin din gbaai yuuni 1948 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1952 ka daa naai ni  summa cum laude. O naabu dali, o sabbu "Of Understanding" nyɛla bɛ ni daa karim shɛli.  O daa tuɣi o bɔhimbu Philadelphia Museum School of Art.

Yuuni 1956, Chase nyɛla ŋun daa nya Bachelor of Fine Arts shikuru yuli booni  Tyler School ka di be Temple University."Barbara Chase-Riboud: Awards and Degrees", Michael Rosenfeldt Art. Retrieved July 28, 2018. Lala yuuni maa, Chase nyɛla ŋun daa di John Hay Whitney fellowship n-daa ti bɔhim American Academy in Rome chiri pinaayi.Smith (1991), "Barbara Chase Riboud," in Notable Black American Women, p. 178. 

Do'kundi mini daŋ
Paris, Chase nyɛla ŋun daa nya Marc Riboud, anfooninima yaara ŋun daa be Magnum laɣingu ni. Bɛ daa niŋ amiliya yuuni 1961 Christmas Day asori duu ni. Bɛ nyɛla ban mali bihi ayi ban nyɛ dabba, David Charles Riboud (b. 1964) mini Alexis Karol Riboud (b. 1967), ka nyɛ ban chaŋ gili  Russia, India, Greece n-ti pahi North Africa.

Yuma nyaaŋa bɛ daa luhi ka wurim. Yuuni 1981, Chase-Riboud nyɛla ŋun daa labi kuli o yidana ŋun pahiri ayi, Sergio Tosi, nucheeni tuma baŋda.

Legacy and honors

 1957: John Hay Whitney Fellowship
 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 1979: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American woman, for Sally Hemings.
 1988: Carl Sandburg Prize for Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra
 1993: honorary Doctorate of Letters from Muhlenberg College.
 1995: James Van Dar Zee Award for Lifetime Achievement
 1996: honorary Doctorate of Letters ka di daa yina University of Connecticut.
 1996, knighted by the French Government and awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres."People", International Herald Tribune, March 23, 1996.
 1996: commissioned by the United States General Services Administration zaŋ n-ti memorial, Africa Rising, at 240 Broadway, site of the newly designated African Burial Ground National Monument, next to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan."African Burial Ground Commissioned Artwork" , General Services Administration
 2004: Nominated Hurston-Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) for Hottentot Venus 
 2005: "Best Fiction Book of 2004" by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for Hottentot Venus
 2007: College Art Association Women's Caucus for Art lifetime achievement award.
 2007: Alain Locke Award from Detroit Institute of Arts
 2020: "Anonymous Was A Woman" from the Rockefeller Foundation
 2021: "Laureate of Prix d'Honneur" from AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions)
 2021: "Laureate of Grand Prix Artistique de la Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca"
 2022: knighted by the French Government and awarded the "Legion d'Honneur".

Selected works

Sculptures
Last Supper (1958)
Bullfighter (1958)
Malcolm X (1970)
Why Did We Leave Zanibar (1971)
Confession for Myself (1973)
Cleopatra's Cape (1973)
Africa Rising (1998)
Mao's Organ (2008)

Novels
Sally Hemings: A Novel (1979). /reprinted in paperback, 2009
Valide: A Novel of the Harem (1986). 
Echo of Lions (1989). 
The President's Daughter (1994). /reprinted in paperback, 2009
Hottentot Venus: A Novel (2003). 
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel (2022). 

Poetry
From Memphis & Peking (1974). 
Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra (1987). 
Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released (2014). 

 Memoir 

 I Always Knew: A Memoir (2022). 

 Kundivihira 

 Further reading 
Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (eds), "Barbara Chase-Riboud", Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Basulado, Carlos and BCR. Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles Catalogue, 2013 (Philadelphia Museum of Art & Yale University Press).  PMA, &  Yale
Dawson, Emma Waters. "Witnesses and Practitioners: Attitudes toward Miscegenation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings." In Dolan Hubbard (ed.), Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1997, 1–14.
Farrington, Lisa E. Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. 2004 (Oxford University Press)
Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History, 1987 (Cross River Press)
Janson, H. W., History of Art, 1995 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
Lewis, Samella. ART: African American, 1990 (Hancraft Press)
McKee, Sarah. "Barbara Chase-Riboud (1939– )". Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 82–87.
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. "Representing the Constitution: Embodiments of America in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Echo of Lions." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.4 (1995 Summer): 258–80.
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. I Write in Tongues': The Supplement of Voice in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings", Contemporary Literature 35.1 (Spring 1994): 100–35.
Russell, John. "Review of Sally Hemmings". The New York Times, September 5, 1979.


Simmons, Charitey. "Thomas Jefferson: Intimate History, Public Debate". Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1979.
Smith, Carney. Notable Black American Women, 1991 (Gale Cengage). 
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Callaloo. 2009 (Johns Hopkins University Press). ISSN 0161-2492
Trescott, Jacqueline. "The Hemmings Affair: The Black Novelist and Jefferson's Mistress". Washington Post, June 15, 1979.

 Related links 
The Art Blog
Decades in the Making

Fred B. Adelson, "Barbara Chase-Riboud brings Malcolm X sculptures home", USA Today, November 5, 2013
Barbara Chase-Riboud papers at the Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University
 "American expat artist living in Paris France – Barbara Chase-Riboud", YouTube video, April 27, 2010.
 "Memory Is Everything: Barbara Chase-Riboud", Barbara Chase-Riboud in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mousse Magazine, 60
 Myth of a Colorblind France. Documentary by Alan Govenar featuring Barbara Chase-Riboud.

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