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Canadian artist
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Male
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Birth:
1956
The details
Biography
Introduction
Calvin Hunt (born 1956, Kwakiutl) is a Canadian First Nations artist from Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The Kwakiutl are part of the larger nation Kwakwaka'wakw.
He was born in 1956, a descendant of the renowned Tlingit ethnologist George Hunt.He was apprenticed as a teenager to his second cousin Tony Hunt, an artist and carver.
He is a woodcarver and owns his own gallery. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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.