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        "tombstone": "Firebird, 1975. Richard Hunt (American, 1935\u20132023). Welded corten steel; overall: 243.8 cm (96 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, 1984.191. \u00a9 Richard Hunt",
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        "title": "Firebird",
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            "America"
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        "technique": "welded corten steel",
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        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 243.8 cm (96 in.)",
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                "height": 2.438,
                "height_inch": 96,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Richard Hunt",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 309849,
                    "title": "Year in Review for 1984",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-04-03T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 219059,
                    "title": "From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art",
                    "description": "<i>From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-May 9, 2010).",
                    "opening_date": "2010-01-29T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 393229,
                    "title": "Contemporary Installation",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Installation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-04-12T04:00:00"
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            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1985: \"Year in Review 1984,\" CMA Bulletin 72 (April, 1985), p. 202, no. 54.",
                    "opening_date": "1985-04-01T00:00:00"
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                    "description": "MOCA Cleveland, OH (1/29/2010 - 5/9/2010): \"From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art\"",
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                "description": "Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "1984",
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        "description": "Firebird exemplifies Hunt\u2019s intent to \"develop the kind of forms nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her.\" The title <em>Firebird</em> evokes the phoenix, the bird rising out of the ashes, mythologized across civilizations, including Ovid\u2019s <em>Metamorphoses</em>. Informed by 20th-century abstract art, however, Hunt derives his subject matter not only from myth but from universal experience, the \"observation of the form and spatial contents of organic and machine structures, [and] the implications of image and emotion.\"",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79935764"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cole, Mark, Amy Sparks, and Rebecca Michaels.<em> African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced p. 16; mentioned p. 18",
                "url": ""
            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky",
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        "gallery_donor_text": "Paula and Eugene Stevens Gallery",
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                "description": "Richard Hunt (American, 1935\u20132023)",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1985-01-21T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:13.661000"
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