Richard Hunt (sculptor)

**Richard Howard Hunt** (September 12, 1935 – December 16, 2023) daa nyɛla African-American nira ŋun mɛri binyɛra o nuuni.  20th century ni pirigi buyi ni ha, o daa nyɛla "African-American ŋun yuli ti Tupi du zaŋ chaŋ nuuni tuunbaŋsim polo." Hunt daa chaŋla shikuru School of the Art Institute of Chicago yuma din gbaai 1950s. O ni daa be ni o daa di pina pam zaŋ chaŋ o tuma polo.  Yuuni 1971, ŋuna n daa nyɛ tuuli African-American ŋun neen mana kpe Museum of Modern Art. Ŋuna n daa nyɛ tuuli nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun tum National Endowment for the Arts ka daa naan yi ti tum Smithsonian American Art Museum. Yuuni 2022, Barack Obama daa yɛliya ni "Richard nyɛla nuuni tuunbadi biinsi puuni yino Chicago ni na min mali." 




## Kpibu
Hunt daa kpila Anashaara goli December 16, 2023, o yili din be Chicago ni. O daa kpila o yuun pihinii ni anii ni.

## Silima mini tuma

Hunt daa nyɛla ŋun di pina pam ka deei shɛhira gbana pam.

### Tuun gahinda
*1956 		Mr and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
*1957 		James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 
*1957 		Pauline Palmer Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
*1961 		Mr and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
*1962 		Mr and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal and Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
*1962 		Walter M. Campana Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
*1962   	Guggenheim Fellowship
*1965 		Tamarind Artist Fellowship, Ford Foundation
*1970 		Award, Cassandra Foundation
*1980 		James Van Der Zee Lifetime Achievement Award, Brandywine Workshop and Archives
*1990 		Sidney R. Yates Art Advocacy Award, Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
*1993 		Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois
*1997 		Artists Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem
*1998 		Distinguished Artist, The Union League Club of Chicago
*1998 		Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
*1999 		Chicago African American History Maker Award, The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago 
*1999 		Member, National Academy of Design
*2003 		Harry W. Watrous Prize and Elizabeth N. Watrous Medal, National Academy of Design
*2004 		Archibald Motley Jr. History Maker Award for Distinction in Visual Arts, Chicago History Museum
*2005 		Malvina Hoffman Artists Fund Award, National Academy of Design
*2009 		Charlotte Dunwiddie Prize, National Academy of Design
*2009 		Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center
*2010 		Legacy Award, United Negro College Fund
*2011 		Ruth Horwich Award to a Famous Chicago Artist, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
*2014 		Fifth Star Award, City of Chicago
*2014 		Lifetime Achievement Award, Howard University
*2015 		Alain Locke International Art Award, Detroit Institute of Arts
*2015 		Lifetime Achievement Award, Partners for Livable Communities
*2017 		Legendary Landmark's Honoree, Landmarks Illinois
*2022 		Legends and Legacy Award, Art Institute of Chicago
*2022		Richard Hunt Day proclaimed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, City of Chicago, June 10
*2023		Chicago Public Library Foundation Arts Award
*2023		Dorsky Lifetime Achievement Award, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
*2023		Music of the Baroque Honoree, Chicago
*2023		Richard Hunt Day proclaimed by First Lady of Illinois MK Pritzker, April 24

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### Honorary degrees
*1972 		Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
*1973 		Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
*1976 		University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*1977 		Illinois State University, Normal 
*1979 		Colorado State University, Fort Collins 
*1979 		School of the Art Institute of Chicago
*1984 		Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*1986 		Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL
*1987 		Roosevelt University, Chicago
*1991 		Tufts University, Medford, MA
*1996 		Columbia College, Chicago
*1997 		Governors State University, University Park, IL
*2004 		North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro
*2007 		University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
*2013 		Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
*2022 		Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
*2023		University of Southern Indiana, Evansville IN

Source

### Selected works
**Hero Construction* (1958), Chicago
**[[A Bridge Across and Beyond]]* (1978), Washington, D.C.
**[[Wing Generator]]* (1980) University of Notre Dame, Indiana
*''Symbiosis'' (c. 1981), Washington, D.C.
**[[Build-Grow]]* (1986), Jamaica, Queens, New York
**[[Build-Grow]]* (1992), Washington, D.C.
**Swing Low* (2016), Washington, D.C.
**[[The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument]]*, Chicago

### Selected public collections
* Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
* Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
* Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
* Applewood-Ruth Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
* Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
* Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
* Art Institute of Chicago
* Art Museum of the University of Memphis
* Baltimore Museum of Art
* Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
* Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
* Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
* Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
* British Museum
* Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
* The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
* Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
* Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison
* Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
* The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
* Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
* The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
* David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
* The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
* de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
* DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago
* Denver Art Museum
* Detroit Institute of Arts
* The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago
* Elmhurst University Art Collection, Elmhurst, IL
* Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington
* Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
* Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
* Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
* Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC[JB1] [JO2] 
* Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
* Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
* Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta
* Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
* Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
* High Museum of Art, Atlanta
* Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
* Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
* Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
* Illinois State Museum, Springfield
* Indianapolis Museum of Art
* The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
* The Jewish Museum, New York
* Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
* Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
* Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI
* Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
* McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville
* McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
* Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
* Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
* Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
* Milwaukee Art Museum
* Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
* Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
* Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok), Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
* Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
* Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* The Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
* Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
* Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL
* National Academy of Design, New York
* National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
* National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
* The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
* Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
* New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
* North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
* Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
* Obama Presidential Center
* Paul R. Jones Museum, University of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa
* Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
* Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL[JB3] [JO4]
* Philadelphia Museum of Art
* Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
* Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
* Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
* RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
* Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz
* SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
* Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
* Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
* Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
* Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
* Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
* Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
* Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
* Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
* Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
* Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
* Tougaloo College Art Collections, Tougaloo, MS
* Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
* UCF Art Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando
* University Museum at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
* The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
* University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
* Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
* Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
* Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
* Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
* Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA 
* Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

## Kundivihira

## Luɣ'shɛŋa di ni yina
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* Baltimore Museum of Art, and Jay McKean Fisher. *Prints by a Sculptor: Richard Hunt*. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979.
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