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Richard Hunt (sculptor) was born on 12 September, 1935 in Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, United States, is a Sculptor. Discover Richard Hunt (sculptor)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Occupation Sculptor
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 12 September 1935
Birthday 12 September
Birthplace Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of death December 16, 2023
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2022

On February 26, 2022, the Obama Foundation announced the commission of the sculpture "Book Bird" for the Barack Obama Presidential Center. The sculpture is an elaboration from a piece Hunt created as an award to supporters of the United Negro College Fund. "This beautiful piece encapsulates the progress one can make through reading—embodying the inspiration we hope all young people take away when they visit the Obama Presidential Center." – Obama Foundation

The Getty Research Institute acquired the archive of Richard Hunt in October 2022. The Richard Hunt archive contains approximately 800 linear feet of detailed notes and correspondence, notebooks, sketchbooks, photographic documentation, financial records, research, ephemera, blueprints, posters, drawings, and lithographs, as well as a selection of wax models for public sculptures. “Richard Hunt is one of the foremost American artists of the mid- to late-20th century,” says LeRonn Brooks, associate curator for modern and contemporary collections. “I am thrilled that Getty, whom I first became affiliated with through my participation in the Getty Center for Education in the Arts during the 1980s, will be the home of my archive,” says Richard Hunt. “The entirety of my papers, photographs, letters, and sketches trace the arc of my career and my contribution to art history. I hope that my archive will serve not only as a remembrance but an inspiration to others.”

1980

He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as one of the first artists to serve on the governing board of the National Endowment for the Arts and he also served on boards of the Smithsonian Institution. From 1980 to 1988, Hunt served as Commissioner of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art. From 1994 to 1997, Hunt served on the Smithsonian Institution's National Board of Directors. Hunt is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

1971

Hunt's work has been exhibited 12 times at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, including a major solo retrospective in 1971, when the artist was only 35 years old. Titled The Sculpture of Richard Hunt, March 25 – July 9, 1971, Hunt became the first African American sculptor to be given a retrospective by MoMA, this was only the second exhibition for a black artist of any kind in the history of the museum.

In 1971, Hunt acquired a deactivated electrical substation near northern Chicago and repurposed it into a metal welding sculpture studio. The station came equipped with a bridge crane, which was convenient for moving large sculpture pieces, and a spacious 40-foot ceiling. While handling the metal, Hunt works with two assistants. Hunt describes metalworks as "free play of forms evolving, developing and contrasting with one another."

1968

Hunt was the first African American visual artist to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Arts. Hunt was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. He was the fourth African American on the council, after Marian Anderson, Ralph Ellison, and Duke Ellington.

1967

Hunt received his first sculpture commission in 1967 known as Play, which was commissioned by the State of Illinois Public Art Program. The making of this sculpture led him to many other public commissions and was considered to be his second career as a public sculptor. Hunt has completed more public sculptures than any other artist in the country. His signature pieces include Jacob's Ladder at the Carter G. Woodson Library in Chicago and Flintlock Fantasy in Detroit. His 1972 sculpture, Natural Forms II, can currently be seen at the Delaware Art Museum.

1960

March 7, 1960, Mary Andrews, president of the local youth council of the NAACP, writes letters to store managers in downtown San Antonio who operate white-only lunch counters. Encouraged by the growing sit-in movement, she requests equal services be provided to all, regardless of race. Hunt in uniform goes to lunch at Woolworth's on March 16, 1960, is seated at the counter, has his order taken, and is served without incident. Hunt, the only known African American to eat at San Antonio's Woolworth's lunch counter that day, fulfills Mary Andrews vision of integration. This action, along with a handful of other African Americans at other lunch counters across the city, make San Antonio the first peaceful and voluntary lunch counter integration in the south.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Hunt used car junkyards as his quarries and turned bumpers and fenders into abstract, welded sculptures. Hunt also focused on linear-spatial arrangement of his materials where he followed Julio Gonzalez's footsteps into three dimensional structures. This experimentation garnered critically positive response from the art community, such that Hunt was exhibited at the Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Show and the American Show, where the Museum of Modern Art purchased a piece for its collection. He was the youngest artist to exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, a major international survey exhibition of modern art.

1958

During the fall of 1958 Hunt completed his basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. He will go on to serve nearly two years in the United States Army from 1958 to 1960. Hunt serves as an Army illustrator at Brooke Army Medical Center located within Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. While in Texas, Hunt rents a newly constructed house on the base in a neighborhood occupied only by white noncommissioned officers; as the first African American to live there, he desegregates the neighborhood.

1953

Hunt graduated from Englewood High School in 1953 and entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago that year. He was once interested in Surrealism where he experimented with the assemblage of broken machine parts and metals from the junkyard such as car bumpers and reshaping them into organic forms. Hunt worked with materials of copper, iron and then to steel and aluminum which led to him to produce a series of "hybrid figures" which were references to human, animal and plant forms. This is where Hunt attains a combination of organic and industrial subject matter in his artwork. Hunt studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1953 to 1957, focusing on welding sculptures, but also studying lithography. His earliest works were more figural than his later ones, and usually represented classical themes. Hunt began exhibiting his sculptures nationwide while still a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a Junior, his piece "Arachne," was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He received a B.A.E. from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1957.

1950

With a career that spans seven decades, Hunt has held over 150 solo exhibitions and is represented in more than 100 public museums across the world. Hunt has served on the Smithsonian Institution's National Board of Directors. Hunt's abstract, modern and contemporary sculpture work is notable for its presence in exhibitions and public displays as early as the 1950s, despite social pressures for the obstruction of African-American art at the time. Barack Obama said "Richard Hunt is one of the greatest artists Chicago has ever produced."

As a teenager, Hunt began his work in sculpture, working in clay and carvings. While his work started in a makeshift studio in his 1950 bedroom, he eventually built a basement studio in his father's barbershop.

Hunt began to experiment with materials and sculpting techniques, influenced heavily by progressive twentieth-century artists. Hunt was inspired to focus on sculpture because of the 1950s exhibition called the Sculpture of the Twentieth Century that was held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. The Sculpture of the Twentieth Century included works of Pablo Picasso, Julio González and David Smith. At the exhibition, this was the first time Hunt saw various artworks of welded metal. Hunt was also inspired and paid respect to French sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon whose 1914 bronze "Horse" was instructional. Seeing these artists' works led Hunt to created abstract shapes by welding metal.

1935

Richard Howard Hunt (born September 12, 1935) is a sculptor. In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture." Hunt, the descendant of enslaved people brought through the port of Savannah from West Africa, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s, and while there received multiple prizes for his work. He was the first African American sculptor to have a retrospective at Museum of Modern Art in 1971. Hunt has created over 160 public sculpture commissions in prominent locations in 24 states across the United States, more than any other sculptor.

Hunt was born in 1935 in the neighborhood of Woodlawn on Chicago's South Side. Hunt and his younger sister Marian grew up in South Side Chicago, but moved to Galesburg, Illinois at eleven years old where he spent the majority of his time in the city of Chicago. From an early age he was interested in the arts, as his mother, a beautician and librarian, would bring him to performances by local opera companies that sang classical repertoires of Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, and Handel. As a young boy, Hunt began to show enthusiasm and talent in artistic disciplines such as drawing and painting, and also sculpture, an interest that grew more and more as he got older. Hunt was inspired to pursue his career in the arts because his family appreciated art and he clearly said "My mom was supportive and dad was tolerant." In the seventh grade, Hunt attended the Junior School of Art Institute of Chicago where he began his interest in art. Hunt also acquired business sense and awareness of social issues from working for his father in a barbershop.