Richard Hunt, a prolific sculptor whose towering metalwork became a mainstay of American public art, and whose 70-year career drew the attention of presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Barack ...

Richard Hunt, an influential sculptor whose work channeled the civil rights movement and filled public spaces across the U.S., has died at age 88.

Renowned sculptor and Chicago native Richard Hunt died on Dec. 16 at the age of 88, in his beloved Chicago home. This marks the end of a remarkable journey, one that saw Richard Hunt rise to ...

Richard Hunt, a prolific Chicago artist who was the first Black sculptor to receive a solo retrospective at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and whose public works drew praise from ...

Richard Hunt, prolific Chicago sculptor whose public works explored civil rights, dies at 88. ... Hunt was a graduate of the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Richard Hunt, abstract sculptor at home in public spaces, dies at 88. He often drew on Black history and culture in his work, ... At 13, he began taking junior classes at the museum’s art school.

Richard Howard Hunt was born Sept. 12, 1935, in Chicago, the first of two children born to Cleophus Howard Hunt, a barber, and Etoria Inez Henderson Hunt, a librarian.