store managers in downtown San Antonio who operate white-only lunch counters. Encouraged by the growing sit-in movement, she requests equal services be provided to all, regardless of race. Hunt in uniform goes to lunch at Woolworth's on March 16, 1960, is seated at the counter, has his order taken, and is served without incident. Hunt, the only known African American to eat at San Antonio's Woolworth's lunch counter that day, fulfills Mary Andrews vision of integration. This action, along with a handful of other African Americans at other lunch counters across the city, make San Antonio the first peaceful and voluntary lunch counter integration in the south. Museum of Modern Art Hunt's work has been exhibited 12 times at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, including a major solo retrospective in 1971, when the artist was only 35 years old. Titled The Sculpture of Richard Hunt, March 25 – July 9, 1971, Hunt became the first African American sculptor to be given a retrospective by MoMA, this was only the second exhibition for a black artist of any kind in the history of the museum. Career Hunt began to experiment with materials and sculpting techniques, influenced heavily by progressive twentieth-century artists. Hunt was inspired to focus on sculpture because of the 1950s exhibition called the Sculpture of the Twentieth Century that was held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. The Sculpture of the Twentieth Century included works of Pablo Picasso, Julio González and David Smith. At the exhibition, this was the first time Hunt saw various artworks of welded metal. Hunt was also inspired and paid respect to French sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon whose 1914 bronze "Horse" was instructional. Seeing these artists' works led Hunt to created abstract shapes by welding metal. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hunt used car junkyards as his quarries and turned bumpers and fenders into abstract, welded sculptures. Hunt also focused on linear-spatial arrangement of his materials where he followed Julio Gonzalez's footsteps into three dimensional structures. This experimentation garnered critically positive response from the art community, such that Hunt was exhibited at the Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Show and the American Show, where the Museum of Modern Art purchased a piece for its collection. He was the youngest artist to exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, a major international survey exhibition of modern art. Hunt received his first sculpture