October 2021

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Chief Curator Emily Talbot and Graduate Intern Frances Lazare spoke with Richard Hunt about his fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1965 and the prints that he produced there.

September 17, 2020

 

Curators Jordan Carter and Ann Goldstein worked with legendary Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt on a new installation for the museum’s Bluhm Family Terrace.

October 22, 2015

 

Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts.

January 15, 2001

 

Sculptor and painter Richard Hunt is an internationally renowned for his artwork and his ability to transform and fuse raw material with space. Hunt has completed more public sculptures than any other artist in the United States, including Jacob's Ladder at the Carter G. Woodson Library in Chicago and Flintlock Fantasy in Detroit, Michigan. Hunt was interviewed by The HistoryMakers® on January 15, 2001, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the original video footage of the interview.

August 1, 1993

 

Studs Terkel interviews Richard Hunt about his "rich and full" career.

March 3, 1979

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"Well, as a matter of fact, there was a great exhibition at the Art Institute called "Sculpture of the 20th Century," organized by Andrew Cadder Fritchie [phon.sp.]. And, you know, that was the first time I saw kind of a survey of work done in metal. Gonzalez, David Smith, Picasso's iron sculpture. You know, people coming to the fore at the time. And it seemed to me a very interesting way of being able to work more freely and improvisationally and incorporate more space," says Richard Hunt.

1960s

 

Terkel interviews Richard Hunt, Vin Rosenthal, Theodore Sherrod, and Sterling "Red" Quinlan in the 1960s. “I like the idea of making somehow organic forms out of mechanical material and techniques. The same thing is to get this feeling of making machine and organic at the same time," says Richard Hunt.