This frieze at Kingsborough Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, entitled Green Pastures: Walls of Jericho, was sculpted circa 1937-38 by the African American sculptor, Richmond Barthe, possibly in collaboration with two other artists. It was however, installed at the Kingsborough Houses when they opened in 1941 in Brooklyn. Detail from Richmond Barthé's “Green Pastures: The Walls of Jericho.
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