Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 516
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Exhibits and Design
Exhibition Records, 1971-1989
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Exhibits and Design |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | 1971-1989 |
Quantity: | 10.5 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Record Unit 516 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records include the correspondence of Shannon and Schiesser; minutes of meetings; exhibition proposals; installation floor plans; scripts; conservation planning; budgets; photographs of HMSG, artworks, and artists; and plans to modify the Museum's Sculpture Garden. |
Historical Note
The Department of Exhibits and Design, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), is responsible for arranging permanent and temporary HMSG exhibits and monitoring conditions in the Museum's exhibit galleries. From 1971 to 1976 the Department operated under the Director's Office. In 1976 Joseph Shannon was made acting Chief of the Department. He served as Chief from 1977 to 1986. Edward P. Schiesser succeeded Shannon, serving 1986- .
Descriptive Entry
These records include the correspondence of Shannon and Schiesser; minutes of meetings; exhibition proposals; installation floor plans; scripts; conservation planning; budgets; and photographs of HMSG, art works, and artists; and modifications to the Museum's Sculpture Garden.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 516, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Exhibits and Design, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Acquisitions
Banner Poles, 1977-1978
Budget, 1974
Collections, 1974-1975
Gallery Installations, 1975
Memoranda, 1976 (2 folders)
Exhibits, 1981
American Association of Museums (AAM) Meetings, 1976
Budget, 1977-1980
Building Specifications, 1971-1979
HMSG Carpet, 1977
Conservation, 1971-1980
Correspondence, 1975-1978
Damage Paintings, 1978
Electrical and Lighting, 1978-1980
Exhibition Handouts, 1977-1978
Frame Shop, 1976-1977
Freight Elevator Doors and Cove, 1977-1978
Front Lawn: Posts and Chain, 1976. Includes blueprint.
Future Exhibitions, 1977-1978
Morandi Kulicke and Arikha, 1979
Memoranda, 1975-1979
Garden Installations, 1976-1977, 1980
Garden/Plaza Appointments, 1974, 1978-1979
Installation Procedures, 1973-1974
Interior Cases and Pedestals, 1974
Graphics and Design, 1979-1980
Label Copy for Non-Exhibits, 1978
Label Designs, 1980
Box 2
Landscaping, 1980
Gallery Lighting, 1973-1977
Minutes of Meetings, 1973
Minutes of Meetings, 1977-1980
Museum Visits and Letters of Inquiry, 1974-1976
Non-Gallery Placements, 1975-1978
Painters, 1977
Office of Exhibits Central, 1976-1980
Sculpture Pedestals, 1973-1979. Includes photographs and drawings.
Personnel, 1978
Personnel, 1976, 1980
Realist Criminal Article
Personnel Actions, 1971, 1977
Registrar, 1978
Reports to the Director
Silk-Screening, 1974-1977
Safety Committee, 1980
Exhibition Scheduling, 1978-1979
Exhibition Scripts
Sculpture Garden Plans, 1979. Consists mostly of drawings.
Museum Security Planning, 1976-1981
Signage and General Graphics, 1975-1979
Special Projects, 1975-1979
Storage, 1977
Memoranda, 1975-1977
Facilities Planning, 1979
Urinal Graphics
Homage to Joseph Albers
Ambulatory Reinstallation, 1979. Includes drawings and blueprints.
The Animal in Art, 1977
Art Deco, 1980
Banner Project Blueprint
Bacon Mechanical
1976 Bicentennial Planning
Botero, Fernando
Brancusi Photographs
Business Cards
Box 3
Calder's Universe: Whitney Museum Exhibition, 1978-1979
14 Canadians, 1977
Caries Collection, 1977
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
e. e. Cummings Film, 1976
De Stijl: Visions of Utopia, 1982. Includes brochures, blueprints, drawings, and articles (2 folders)
Directions Project, 1978-1979
Directions II Project, 1981. Includes blueprints and drawings.
Directory Sign, 1980
Di Suvero Exhibition, 1977-1978
Thomas Eakins Exhibition, 1976-1977
Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects, 1977
Louis M. Eilshemius Exhibition, 1979. Includes blueprints and sketches.
Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900. An exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978.
The Ephemeral is Eternal: Posters, 1982
Escalator Lobby
HMSG Equipment List
Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape, 1979
Inaugural Exhibition; Garden, Plaza Sculpture
George Grosz Exhibition, 1978
Philip Evergood Exhibition, 1978
Exterior Painters, 1974
The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1980.
HMSG Floor and Ceiling Plans
Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1981
Gallery Changes, 1981. Includes blueprints and drawings.
Gallery Notices
Murals Without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, 1980.
Box 4
Europe in the 1970s: Aspects of Recent Art, 1978
Bregory Gillespie Exhibition, 1978
Heirs of De Stijl, 1982
Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, 1981
Hirshhorn Holiday, 1982
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Memoriam Booklet, 1981
Exhibition Graphics, 1974-1975
Travels with David Hockney, 1979
Hans Hofmann Exhibition, 1976
Ibero-American Art, 1981
Itek Labels
R. B. Kitaj Exhibition, 1981
Landscapes Exhibition, 1981
David Levine Exhibition, 1976
Lighting Fixtures
Maillol L'action Enchain
Didactics, 1980-1981
Alfred H. Maurer Exhibition, 1979
Metaphor Exhibition, 1981-1982
Mexican Art, 1978
Joan Miro Retrospective, 1980
Henry Moore Exhibition, 1978
Mahmoud Moukhtar Sculpture Exhibition, 1981
Elie Nadelman Exhibition, ca. 1974-1975
Jacques Lipchitz Exhibition, 1980
Preliminary Selections for the Lower Level, 1980
Nadelman Exhibition Plans
Reuben Nakian Exhibition, 1980
Robert Natkin Exhibition, 1979
Minoru Niizuma Exhibition, ca. 1976-1977. Includes photographs.
New Acquisitions Show, 1974-1976
New York: The Artists View, 1980
Box 5
Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art, 1979
Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective of Early Works, 1977
Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros: A Selection from Mexican National Collections, 1978.
Inaugural Exhibition, Painting and Sculpture
Directions Exhibition, 1982-1983 (3 folders)
David Smith: Steel into Sculpture, 1983. Includes blueprints and drawings. (5 folders)
Educational Brochures
Gallery Changes, 1982
Revisions to the Sculpture Garden, 1979. Includes review submission, photographs, and blueprints.
HMSG Portal Bollards, 1980
The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, 1978.
Red Grooms from the Museum's Collection, 1982
Hans Richter's Stalingrad (Victory in the East), 1977
Larry Rivers Exhibition, 1981
Russian Avante-Garde Exhibition, 1981
Samuel Murray Exhibition
Small Paintings, 1980
Mayan Stelae Exhibition
Belgium Show, 1979
Alexandra Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs, 1980.
Josef Albers Collection
Raphael Soyer Collection, 1980
Oscar Bluemner Collection, 1980
Box 6
David Smith: Exhibition Installation, 1979
Kenneth Snelson Exhibition, 1981
SOTO: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1975-1976
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal for Artists, 1982
Raphael Soyer: Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking, 1982
Small Exhibitions, 1976
Small Exhibitions, 1977
European Abstraction, 1982
Staff Art Show, 1981
Saul Steinberg Exhibition, 1978
Joseph Cornell: The Cubist Heritage, 1978
Small Exhibitions, 1978
Thomas Eakins Exhibition, 1977
HMSG Reinstallation, Second Floor
Work Requests, 1975-1978 (2 folders)
Sculpture Pedestals: Measurements
Third Floor Painting and Sculpture, 1973-1975
Exterior Sculpture Pedestals, 1974-1975
Styrofoam Mock-up Project, 1974-1975
Variations on Musical Theme, 1982
Stanchions, 1976
Plexiglas Vitrine, 1973-1975 (2 folders)
Sculpture Running List
Box 7
Kircher & Associates, 1976 (2 folders)
Allegories and Fantasies, 1985
Armory Show, 1987-1988
Arnold Newman Exhibition, 1987
Art from Italy, 1983
Bequests, 1987 (2 folders)
Bridging the Century, 1987
Castle Graphics I-11, 1986
Conservation, 1985
Houston Conwill Works, 1989
Jim Dine: Five Themes, 1984-1985
David Levine, 1987
Directions Project: Correspondence and Blueprints, 1986 (3 folders)
Direct Carving Exhibition, 1985
Directions Project: Robert Cummings, Intuitive Inventions, 1988.
Directions Project: Joel Shapiro, 1987-1988 Directions Project: Sherrie Levine, 1988
Box 8
Directions: Keith Sonnier, 1989
Different Drummers, 1988
Friedel Dzubas Exhibition, 1982-1983
"The Eight" Exhibition: New Art Realism, 1982-1983
Elements of Art: Color, 1983
European Modernism, 1984-1985. Includes blueprints.
Expressive: Central European Art Since 1960
Sculpture Garden, 1977-1982 (2 folders)
German Expressionist Sculpture, 1983-1984. Includes slides. (3 folders)
Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, 1987
Giacomo / Manzu Exhibition
Joseph Stella Exhibition, 1983
Lucian Freud: Paintings, 1987 (2 folders)
Box 9
Lucian Freud Retrospective Show, 1987 (2 folders)
Manzu Show, 1983
Morris Louis Exhibition, 1987 (2 folders)
Artwork Purchases, 1983
Pakistan Exhibition, 1982
Patterned Images, 1987
Recent Acquisitions, 1986 (2 folders)
Recent British Sculpture, 1986-1987 (3 folders)
Relief Sculpture, 1985-1986
Representation Abroad: Special Events Correspondence, 1985. (2 folders)
Ring Collection, 1985
Robert Arneson Retrospective Show, 1986
Roger Brown Exhibition, 1987
Russian and Soviet Paintings 1900-1930: Selections from the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum of Leningrad, 1988.
Sea & Shore, 1987
Sixteen Artists from Italy, 1985-1986
Box 10
Tenth Anniversary: Labels and Didactics, 1984
Tenth Anniversary: Plans and Forms, 1984
Tenth Anniversary: Memoranda and Checklist, 1984
Tenth Anniversary: Graphics
Thomas Eakins Photographs, 1989
Vernon Fisher Exhibition, 1988
Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1988
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, 1988. Includes photographs of the Hirshhorn Museum.
Sol LeWitt, 1987-1988
Sculpture Garden and Plaza: Modifications for the Handicapped, 1981. Includes drawings.
Paul Gauguin Installation, 1981
Videotaping Lectures, 1981
Modern Indian Paintings, 1982
Gaston Lachaise, 1988
Henri Matisse, 1981
Hirshhorn Museum Plaza, 1981
Exhibition Labels
Joseph Stella, 1982
Tenth Anniversary: Installation Budget, 1982
Hirshhorn Museum Restaurant, 1979
Utility Door Project, 1980
Hirshhorn Museum Bookstore Renovation, 1987
Correspondence, 1982
Cubist Sculpture Brochure, 1987
Gallery Changes, 1987
Gallery Changes, 1986
Box 11
Gallery Changes, 1986 (3 folders)
Gallery Changes, 1985
Memoranda, 1985
Minutes of Meetings, 1985
Memoranda, 1984
Memoranda, 1983
Memoranda, 1982
German Expressionist Sculpture, 1987
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