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Richard Howard Hunt

Richard Howard Hunt (1935 - 2023) was active/lived in Illinois.  Richard Hunt is known for Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics.

Sculptor Richard Howard Hunt was born on September 12, 1935 in Chicago and raised there.  Most of his work is abstract, suggesting recognizable human and natural forms.  Hunt describes his work as, "the reconciliation of the organic and the industrial."

Hunt began in his teens, modeling in clay and carving in his bedroom at home. He later created a studio in the basement of his father's barbershop.  Intrigued by metalwork at the African collection of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, where his mother, a librarian, frequently took him. Working in a zoological lab at the University of Chicago contributed to his fascination with animal and insect forms.

Hunt attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1953 to 1957 focused on sculpture especially welding, and he studied lithography.  Hunt was exposed to the work of the Sculptors Julio Gonzales and David Smith, to whom he has attributed inspiration to use direct-metal techniques to t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3579 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Richard Howard Hunt


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Association
  • Art Students League, New York
Art School
  • Art Institute of Chicago (School Of), Teacher
  • Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Teacher
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
  • Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque, Student
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Allan & Susan Marion Collection
  • Art Enterprises Collection
  • Chicago Union League Club
  • Evans-Tibbs Collections
  • First National Bank of Chicago Collection
  • Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
  • American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940

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