Richard Howard Hunt was born and raised in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. Today his studio is an enormous converted trolley station on Chicago’s North Side. For more than six decades, he has executed sculptures in small, pedestal, and monumental scales, welded and cast in steel, aluminum, copper, and bronze.
Hunt is known as one of the foremost artists creating public sculpture. He has realized numerous public commissions in and around Chicago as well as at 125 sites across the nation and internationally. Hunt’s sculptures mix abstract, figurative, and biomorphic forms, which, according to the artist, are what “nature would use if only heat and steel were available to her.”