Photo of work from the "Compromised" collection, RESTORATION GATE. Installed 2008.
Alan B.Pearson Cancer Center of Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA (commissioned by an anonymous patron of the arts).
July 8, 2010
“History & Controversy”
- WVTF PUBLIC RADIO
WVTF’s Keran Billaud talks both to history experts and the sculptor, himself.
July 1, 2010
“Sculpting and Inconvenient Truth”
June 10, 2010
June 9, 1010
June 6, 2010
Editorial endorsing historical validity of Stalin bust placement at the National D-Day Memorial
Memorial Ought To Be True To WWII History
Lynchburg College art professor and sculptor Richard Pumphrey created a bust of the dictator for the memorial—Lynchburg News Advance
June 3, 2010
News Story concerning 6.3.10 installation and ongoing debate about placing Stalin at the National D-Day Memorial (Good photos)
Stalin bust installed at D-Day Memorial — Lynchburg News Advance
Richard Pumphrey, a Lynchburg College professor and artist, finished the piece last year . . . Residents and leaders in Bedford have spoken out against installing the Stalin piece at the memorial.
August 16, 2009
Interviews broadcast on WVTF, Central Virginia’s NPR station
STUDIO VIRGINIA. Richard Pumphrey, in his studio with host Libby Fitzgerald, discusses the Stalin sculpture for the National D-Day Memorial. Topic: Matters associated with the bust’s design and installation.
July 29,2009
EVENING EDITION. Richard Pumphrey and William McIntosh, the National D-Day Memorial’s Executive Director, speak with WVTF host Libby Fitzgerald about the Memorial’s financial future and Pumphrey’s sculpture.
August 8, 2009
A sculpture of Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin by Lynchburg artist Richard Pumphrey will join the busts of Allied leaders (from left) Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va.