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July 4, 1973
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS

Black Artists Show in Indy
By MARION SIMON GARMEL

A special exhibition of works by black sculptors has been arranged by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to coincide with the national convention of the NAACP to be held here the first week in July. 

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A dual show of works by Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt and American-born, Paris sculptress Barbara Chase-Riboud will open July 3 at the museum in the third-floor south gallery of the Krannert Pavilion.
At the same time works by Nigerian sculptor Felix Eboigbe, current artist-in-residence at Indiana University in Bloomington, will go on display in the Kannert Pavillion's third-floor Fauvre Gallery.
Also the museum will put on display a painting from its permanent collection by William E. Scott, pioneer black Indianapolis artist who studied in Paris at the turn-of-the-century. Scott studied with Henry O. Tanner, a black artist many historians consider one of the greatest of the late 19th century, in Etaples, France, and his painting owned by the museum is entitled "Rainy Day, Etaples."
Delegates to the NAACP convention will be guests at a special preview of the shows Sunday at 8:30 p.m.
Hunt was born in Chicago in 1935 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney and Metropolitan museums in New York and at the Milwaukee Art Center. Writing of Hunt's work in 1963, art critic Hilton Kramer said: "I think that Hunt is one of the most gifted and assured artists working in the direct-metal, open-form medium - and I mean not only in his own country and generation but anywhere in the world." Twenty-five Hunt sculptures and 15 lithographs will be included in the museum's show.
Barbara Chase-Riboud, who has lived in Paris for the last 10 years, is a sculptress, jeweler and draftsman who specializes in combing materials such as metals and fibers to produce hard-soft sculptures uniquely her own. 
Her works are included in collections at the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum in New York, the University Museum at Berkeley, Calif., and the Centre Nacional des Arts Contemporains in Paris. More than 18 of her works are included in the show, among them bronzes, charcoal drawings and pieces combining aluminum and silk and aluminum and synthetic fibers. 
Eboigbe, who came to Indiana from Lagos, Nigeria, works only in wood and uses traditional Nigerian tools in his carving. 

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Felix Eboigbe at work.

He does not execute a priliminary drawing but follows the grain of the wood in devising his traditional, modern and some abstract sculptures. He will be present in the museum's Fauvre Gallery next Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to demonstrate his technique.
The Hunt and Chase-Riboud show will remain at the museum through Aug. 26. The Eboigbe sculpture will remain through July 22. Also from July 3 through July 22 the museum will display Alexander Calder's miniature circus in the Krannert Pavilion's second-floor Beesley Gallery. The circus exhibit is sponsored by the American Federation of Arts. 

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