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Islet #1
1999 · Cast bronze with stone base
Overall: 18 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 7 1/8 in. (46.4 × 21 × 18.1 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Bryan Hunt
1947
Sculpture
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8
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20
Works in Collection
36
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2
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Drawings of the Eighties from the Collection, Part I
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990
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Contemporary Works from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987–1988
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Sculptors' Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Bryan Hunt is an American sculptor born in 1947 who works primarily in bronze, stone, and steel. His forms often reference natural phenomena, water, wind, geological formations, translated into abstract, biomorphic structures that occupy space with architectural precision. Hunt's practice emerged during the postwar period of expanded abstraction, positioning sculptural form as a vehicle for investigating the relationship between material, gravity, and organic process.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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