The Museum of Modern Art’s March 1971 announcement presents Richard Hunt’s first major museum retrospective, bringing together fifty sculptures alongside drawings and prints. The release traces his movement from found metal toward open, linear forms and larger architectural structures. Studies for public commissions show an expanding scale of practice. The document records an exhibition planned for New York before a further presentation in Chicago, where Hunt lived.
By AFROSCOPE Daily·Source: The Museum of Modern Art·
Romare Bearden in 1944, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42507. Contextual portrait; not a photograph of the 1971 exhibition.Carl Van Vechten · Public domain
The Museum of Modern Art’s advance fact sheet presents Romare Bearden’s collage as an exploration of everyday Black life, from music and worship to family meals. Guest director Carroll Greene assembled fifty-six works, including enlarged collages and The Block, an eighteen-foot mural accompanied by sound. The historical announcement also records planned presentations in Washington and Berkeley.
By AFROSCOPE Daily·Source: The Museum of Modern Art·
The Museum of Modern Art’s announcement records a Harlem park mural developed from paintings by seven young artists. Betty Blayton Taylor selected their designs through the Children’s Art Carnival, and twenty youngsters worked with three teachers to paint the ninety-foot wall. The account describes paid youth participation and a mural intended to serve as a setting for outdoor plays. MoMA’s archive catalogues the document to 1971; an exact issue date is not established.
By AFROSCOPE Daily·Source: The Museum of Modern Art·
