Richard Hunt (artist)
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Richard Hunt (b. 1951) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Kwakwaka'wakw (formerly "Kwakiutl") nation of coastal British Columbia.
He was born in 1951 at Alert Bay, B.C., but has lived most of his life in Victoria, B.C. On his father's side, he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt. He began carving at the age of thirteen and in 1973 began carving with his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.
Richard's maternal grandfather was the artist Mungo Martin, and his brothers Tony and Stanley Hunt are also carvers.
[edit] Sources
- Hunt, Ross (2007) "The Hunt Family's Trip to West Germany to Attend the Bundesgarten Show." Anthropology News, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 20-21.
- Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary (1984) The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre.
