Hybrid Form, Number 3, or Crescent Hybrid
1970
Cast bronze

Hybrid Form, Number 3, or Crescent Hybrid is part of an editioned series exhibited in Hunt’s 1971 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the first for a Black sculptor in the museum’s forty-two-year history. The transformation of hard edges into organic forms reveals Hunt’s interest in metals’ ability to move between the two states, a theme throughout his career. Hunt’s close observation of animals while working at the Zoological Experimental Laboratory at the University of Chicago between 1951 and 1957 inspired these forms and others like it.

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