Steel Bloom #1

Name/Title

Steel Bloom #1

Entry/Object ID

2012.124

Artwork Details

Medium

Welded steel

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Samuel and Blanche Koffler

Made/Created

Artist

Hunt, Richard

Date made

1956

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States Chicago

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

SCULPTURE

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

7 in

Depth

7 in

Length

18 in

Relationships

Related Publications

Publication

Richard Hunt: Freedom in Form

Notes

pg: 46-47

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

Hunt's resourcefulness is on full display in the Steel Bloom series. Metal was expensive so Hunt sourced much of the metal in these sculptures from Chicago Alleys and scrapyards. rather than using fabricated flat sheets of metal, these scraps provided Hunt with material that was inherently sculptural. Industrial fabrication methods, such as threaded rods and machine-drilled holes, are visible in these works. Hunt transformed urban materials into flighty, insect- and plant-like creations. From the exhibition "Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt"