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Record Unit 481
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Department of Painting and Sculpture,
Exhibition Records,
1968-1993, with related records from 1956

By Shawn Johnstone

This record unit is restricted for 15 years from the latest date of records (1993). Restrictions will be lifted at the beginning of calendar year 2009. Access to restricted collections requires explicit permission from the transferring office or donor. Contact the SIA Reference Staff for further information (call 202-633-5890, or email OSIAREF@osia.si.edu).

Descriptive Entry


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

These records document the planning, development, and installation of exhibitions by the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG). Included are biographical and bibliographical research files on artists; correspondence with museums, galleries, and artists concerning loan of artwork; loan reports; shipment records; installation notes and photographs; budget and fundraising files; checklists, photographs, slides, and transparencies of artwork; and label copy and handouts for exhibitions. These records also contain catalogue production files, including draft and final versions of catalogue text, as well as galley proofs. Openings of exhibitions are documented with press releases and other publicity, photographs, invitations to openings, and reviews of exhibitions in newspapers and magazines. Files concerning lectures and seminars related to exhibitions are also included.

Major exhibitions represented by these records include: "Inaugural Exhibition;" "Soto: A Retrospective Exhibition;" "Sculptors and Their Drawings;" "The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman;" "The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976;" "A Quiet Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965;" "14 Canadians: A Critic's Choice;" "The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde;" "Directions;" "Miro;" "Fernando Botero;" "Content: A Contemporary Focus;" "The Fifties;" "Metaphor;" "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia;" "Heirs of De Stijl;" "Russian and Soviet Paintings 1900-1930;" "Different Drummers;" "Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966;" "Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century;" and "Francis Bacon."

A small amount of general administrative files of the Department of Painting and Sculpture are also included, as is some correspondence of Inez Garson, Assistant Curator, 1971-1974, Curator for Archives, 1978-1981; and Phyllis Rosenzweig, Curatorial Assistant, 1974-1977, Associate Curator, 1978-____. Records dating from before the 1974 opening of the Museum were created by members of the Department of Painting and Sculpture office in New York and mostly concern the selection of artwork for the Inaugural Exhibition.

Box 1 of 66

"Sculptors and Their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection"

"Soto: A Retrospective Exhibition"

"Jose de Creeft/Ben Benn"

"Picasso Etchings: A Selection"

"The Art of John Covert"

Box 2 of 66

"The Art of John Covert" (cont'd)

"Winslow Hower: Drawings"

"The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman"

"Artists, Authors, and Others: Drawings of David Levine"

"Bicentennial Banners"

"Robert Rauschenberg's Stone Moon Series," 1976

"Homage to Joan Prats"

Box 3 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (Bicentennial Exhibition)

Box 4 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (cont'd)

"Alfred Leslie"

Box 5 of 66

"Chac-Mool: A Bicentennial Loan from Mexico"

"Peter Plagens: Works on Paper"

"E.E.Cummings: The Poet as Artist"

"Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective Exhibition"

"Thomas Hart Benton: The Sources of Country Music"

"Homage to Joan Prats"

"14 Canadians: A Critic's Choice"

Box 6 of 66

"14 Canadians: A Critic's Choice" (cont'd)

Box 7 of 66

"14 Canadians: A Critic's Choice" (cont'd)

"Acquisitions: 1974-1977"

"The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"

Box 8 of 66

"Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America"

"The Photography of Leland Rice"

"Summer Sculpture '77: Jules Olitski"

"Homage to Josef Albers: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and SculptureGarden"

"The Arthur B. Carles Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"

"Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective (Early Work, 1948-1966)"

"Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art"

"Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona Around 1900"

"Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros: A Selection from Mexican National Collections"

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde"

Box 9 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

"The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection"

"Gregory Gillespie"

Box 10 of 66

"Gregory Gillespie" (cont'd)

"Saul Steinberg"

Box 11 of 66

"Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects"

Box 12 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (Bicentennial Exhibition)

Box 13 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (cont'd)

Box 14 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (cont'd)

Box 15 of 66

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (cont'd)

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde"

Box 16 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

Box 17 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

Box 18 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

Box 19 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

Box 20 of 66

"The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde" (cont'd)

"Louis M. Eilshemius: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"

"Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art"

Box 21 of 66

"Artists and Others: Some Portraits from the Collection"

"Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape"

"David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink"

"Directions"

Box 22 of 66

"David Smith: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"Images of Children"

"Burgoyne Diller from the Collection"

"Arshile Gorky: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"

"Murals Without Walls" (Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Project)

"Alfred Maurer: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"Collages: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection" (Exhibition Tour)

"The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman"

"Paintings by Joan Miro: A Retrospective from American Collections"

Box 23 of 66

"Paintings by Joan Miro: A Retrospective from American Collections" (cont'd)

"Fernando Botero: A Retrospective Exhibition"

Box 24 of 66

"Fernando Botero: A Retrospective Exhibition" (cont'd)

Box 25 of 66

"Fernando Botero: A Retrospective Exhibition" (cont'd)

"The Cubist Heritage"

"George Grosz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"Art Deco Posters from the Library of Congress"

"Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes"

"Seven Belgian Artists"

"Josef Albers: Works from the Collection"

"Oscar Bluemner: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"New York: The Artist's View"

"The Intimate Scale: A Selection"

"Alexander Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs"

Box 26 of 66

"Alexander Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs" (cont'd)

"The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1950-1960"

Box 27 of 66

"The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1950-1960" (cont'd)

Box 28 of 66

"The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1950-1960" (cont'd)

"Directions 1981"

Box 29 of 66

"Directions 1981" (cont'd)

Box 30 of 66

"Directions 1981" (cont'd)

Box 31 of 66

"Directions 1981" (cont'd)

Box 32 of 66

"Mahmoud Moukhtar (1891-1934)"

"Larry Rivers: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"Jacques Lipchitz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Scultpure Garden Collection"

"The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives"

"Ibero-American Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection"

"Kenneth Snelson"

"Andre Masson: Prints from the Museum Collection"

"Landscapes on Paper: Works from the Collection"

"Robert Natkin: Prints and Painted Prints"

"The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976" (Bicentennial Exhibition)

"Hans Richter's 'Stalingrad' (Victory in the East)"

Box 33 of 66

"Hans Richter's 'Stalingrad' (Victory in the East)" (cont'd)

"R.B. Kitaj"

"Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors"

Box 34 of 66

"Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors" (cont'd)

"Soyer Since 1960"

Box 35 of 66

"Soyer Since 1960" (cont'd)

"Raphael Soyer: Sixty-Five Years of Print Making"

"Art from India: Selections from the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi)"

"De Stijl: 1917-1931, Visions of Utopia"

"Heirs of De Stijl"

"Genre Scenes: Works on Paper from the Museum Collection"

"European Abstractions on Paper: Works from the Museum's Collection"

"Drawings from the Museum's Collection"

"Five Distinguished Alumni: The W.P.A. Federal Art Project" - An Exhibition in Honor of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Centennial

Michel Seuphor's Play, "The Ephemeral is Eternal"

Box 36 of 66

Michel Seuphor's play, "The Ephemeral is Eternal" (cont'd)

"Samuel Murray: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

"Variations on a Musical Theme: Selections from the Museum Collection"

"David Smith: Painter, Sculptor and Draftsman"

Box 37 of 66

"Directions 1983"

Box 38 of 66

"Directions 1983" (cont'd)

"Art of Pakistan"

"Prints and Collages"

"Artists and Others: Works on Paper from the Museum's Collection"

"Friedel Dzubas"

"The Eight and the Independent Tradition in American Art"

Box 39 of 66

"The Eight and the Independent Tradition in American Art" (cont'd)

"Joseph Stella: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection"

 

Box 40 of 66

"Paintings by Joan Miro: A Retrospective from American Collections"

Box 41 of 66

"Paintings by Joan Miro: A Retrospective from American Collections" (cont'd)

"Friedel Dzubas"

"Fernando Botero: A Retrospective Exhibition"

"Drawings, 1974-1984"

"Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors"

"Clyfford Still"

Box 42 of 66

"Clyfford Still" (cont'd)

"Russian and Soviet Paintings, 1900-1930"

Box 43 of 66

"Russian and Soviet Paintings, 1900-1930" (cont'd)

"Different Drummers"

"Roger Brown"

"Alberto Giacometti"

Box 44 of 66

"Alberto Giacometti" (cont'd)

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 45 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

Box 46 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

Box 47 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

Box 48 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

Box 49 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

"Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition"

Box 50 of 66

"Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Exhibition" (cont'd)

"Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984" - The Hirshhorn Museum's Tenth Anniversary Exhibition

Box 51 of 66

"Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984" (cont'd)

Box 52 of 66

"Directions 1986"

"A Quite Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965"

"Lucian Freud"

Box 53 of 66

"A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy"(Akron Art Museum)

Box 54 of 66

"A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy" (cont'd)

"John Baldessari"

Box 55 of 66

Box 56 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 57 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

Box 58 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 59 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 60 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 61 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

"America's Smithsonian: Treasures from the National Museums of the United States"(Edinburgh, Scotland)

Box 62 of 66

Box 63 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 64 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)

"German Expressionist Sculpture"

"Alexander Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs"

   

Box 65 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century"

Box 66 of 66

"Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century" (cont'd)


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