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Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Sculptor Richard Hunt (1935–2023), who died in December at the age of eighty-eight, was honored with a comprehensive exhibition of his early works at White Cube. Early Masterworks homes in on the artist’s output from 1955–69, a fruitful decade that saw the young Hunt—later to become acclaimed for his large, public sculptures—testing, experimenting, and refining the distinctive style that would become his own.
"From this day forward, Richard Hunt is a book no serious art library can be without." - Artbook
Seven decades of incredibly dynamic sculpture in bronze and steel from the Chicago virtuoso―with full-color plates, archival materials and much more.
"[Hunt] was a titan among sculptors who created colossal works of art that challenge us to mine the depths of spirituality to find solace and strength, resilience and resolve," says Kevin Young, the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).