id:			151902
accession number:	1984.191
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.191
updated:		2023-09-02 11:05:12.552000

Firebird, 1975. Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935). Welded corten steel; overall: 243.8 cm (96 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky 1984.191 © Richard Hunt

title:				Firebird
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creation date:			1975
creation date earliest:		1975
creation date latest:		1975
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky
copyright:			© Richard Hunt

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	welded corten steel
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 243.8 cm (96 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1984
	opening date:   1985-04-03T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

	title:		From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art
	opening date:   2010-01-29T00:00:00
	<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).

	title:		Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021
	opening date:   2021-04-20T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1985: "Year in Review 1984," CMA Bulletin 72 (April, 1985), p. 202, no. 54.<br>MOCA Cleveland, OH (1/29/2010 - 5/9/2010): "From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art"

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1984
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1984-
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wall description:
Firebird exemplifies Hunt’s intent to "develop the kind of forms nature might create if only heat and steel were available to her." The title Firebird evokes the phoenix, the bird rising out of the ashes, mythologized across civilizations, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 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."
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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
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