Artist
Richard Hunt (American, 1935–2023)American, 1935–2023
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled
Date1957
MediumWelded steel, cottonwood, and fir
Dimensions61 1/8 × 43 × 19 in. (155.3 × 109.2 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2020.72
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 203
Exposé
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
his gestural, experimental works in steel
that evoke the surreal and the fantastic,
blending natural and architectonic forms.
Untitled balances the dramatic vertical of the
wooden column and found metal elements
with expansive lines of welded steel that
extend horizontally into space as they coil
around a wooden gourd. A distinctive early
work, this sculpture established Hunt’s
formal vocabulary—combining disparate
forms and biomorphic shapes—for which
he later would become known
ProvenanceThe artist; [Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago]; purchased by the MFAH, 2020.
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