Reference Request
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7449
Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers, circa 1926-1982 and undated
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Hirshhorn, Joseph H. |
| Title: | Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers |
| Dates: | circa 1926-1982 and undated |
| Quantity: | 29.78 cu. ft. (27 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (3 16x20 boxes) (3 oversize folders) |
| Collection: | Record Unit 7449 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | These papers document Joseph Hirshhorn's relationships with artists and dealers, 1946-1981. Of particular interest is correspondence with artists Willem de Kooning, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, George Rickey, Man Ray, David Hayes, and Henry Moore. There are smaller amounts of correspondence with other well-known artists including Robert Motherwell, Marcel Duchamp, Milton Avery, Josef Albers, Marino Marini, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, and Niki de Saint-Phalle. Many of these files contain clippings, an occasional photograph, and greeting cards. Also included is Hirshhorn's general and social correspondence; Hirshhorn's speeches; awards, plaques and diplomas; personal newspaper clippings, 1955-1981; fan letters; some biographical material; a large number of photographs; and material regarding the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. These papers contain no material relating to Hirshhorn's business interests. |
Historical Note
Joseph Herman Hirshhorn was born in 1899 in Mitau, Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father died when Joseph was still an infant. In 1905 his mother emigrated with her children to the United States and settled the family in Brooklyn, New York, where she found work in a purse factory, six days a week, twelve hours a day. To keep the family afloat, the children had to help, and Joseph left school at the age of twelve to sell newspapers. By the age of fourteen, he was an office boy for the firm that later became the American Stock Exchange. In a short time, he became a chartist, charting stocks for an editor on Wall Street. In 1916 he took a small sum he had saved and launched himself as a broker, earning $168,000 the first year.
In 1924 Hirshhorn became a broker's broker, dealing in bank stock and unlisted securities. He made his first million long before he reached the age of thirty. In 1929 he distrusted the booming stock market and pulled out completely with four million dollars just two months before the crash.
In the 1930s, he began to invest heavily in Canadian mining, discovering gold and then uranium. He secretly acquired mining rights to some 56,000 acres, which became two huge uranium mines. By the mid 1950s, his interests stretched across Canada and the United States, involving him in more than two dozen mining and oil companies. Shortly thereafter, he began to reduce his business interests. His fortune was once estimated at more than one hundred million dollars.
Although the grinding poverty of his childhood spurred Hirshhorn to create a fortune, he also credited it with his love of art. His mother managed to buy her children a piano, and an insurance policy with Prudential sent a yearly supply of calendars into the home. The calendars included reproductions of various art works, which Joseph pinned to his wall.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn with Smithsonian Regent and Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, at the Museum's First Anniversary, December 9, 1975. When he began to make money, he began to buy art, both paintings and sculpture. Using only his own tastes as guidance, he bought and bought, until the size of his private collection had grown to some 5,600 pieces. In the 1950s, he hired an art dealer, Abram Lerner, to curate his collection. Even Lerner could not always keep track of the acquisitions. Hirshhorn would sweep into a gallery and make so many purchases that the dealer felt his head spinning.
Hirshhorn relied solely on his own "feel" for each piece he bought. He once told a dealer who was advising a purchase for investment purposes, "Don't tell me how to make money. I don't collect art to make money. I do it because I love art." (From Art in America, summer 1958.)
In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Hirshhorn would donate his entire collection to the United States along with one million dollars to supplement the collection. A new museum would be constructed on the Mall as part of the Smithsonian Institution and would be named the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The new museum opened in 1974 with Abram Lerner as its first director. It was called the most important development in art for the Capital since the Andrew Mellon gift of the National Gallery of Art.
Hirshhorn's collection includes an international range of sculpture, but its paintings are primarily modern American. The collection has paintings by Thomas Eakins, Jackson Pollock, and Stuart Davis, and sculpture by Henry Moore, Picasso, and many others.
Hirshhorn was married four times, lastly to Olga Zatorsky Cunningham, who shared his passion for art. His marriages produced four children and two adopted ones. He died in 1981.
Introduction
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry
This collection consists of the personal papers of Joseph Hirshhorn, documenting his correspondence with artists and dealers, 1946-1981. Also included is his general and social correspondence; awards, plaques and diplomas; personal newspaper clippings, 1955-1981; fan letters; some biographical material; and many photographs. Not included in this collection is material relating to his business interests. Artists' correspondence in Boxes 3-7 were donated by Olga Hirshhorn.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionBox 31 contains materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Hirshhorn, Olga
- Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
- De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
- Rickey, George
- Ray, Man, 1890-1976
- Hayes, David Vincent, 1931-
- Moore, Henry, 1898-1986
- Motherwell, Robert
- Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
- Avery, Milton, 1885-1965
- Albers, Josef
- Marini, Marino, 1901-1980
- Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
- Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002
- Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002
- Lerner, Abram
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
- Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
- Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- American Stock Exchange
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7449, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers
Container List
Series 1
ART CORRESPONDENCE.Box 1
Early Archives Joseph H. Hirshhorn (JHH) Art (No Bills), 1945-1957
Art Correspondence, 1946-1974 (18 folders)
Box 2
Art Correspondence, 1974-1979 (14 folders)
Box 3
Art Correspondence, 1979-1981 (5 folders)
General Deceased File
Series 2
ARTIST'S CORRESPONDENCE.Box 3
Acheson, Alice
Adams, Ansel
Agam, Yaacov (2 folders)
Ajay, Abe
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Albers, Josef
Anthonisen, George
Anthony, Carol
Anuszkiewicz, Richard
Arcilesi, Vincent
Arikha, Avigdor
Arman
Atirnomis (Rita Simon)
Avery, Milton
Bacon, Francis
Baertling, Olle
Baizerman, Eugene
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Banister, Richard
Bar, Nelli
Barnet, Will
Batuz
Barrow, Julian
Baskin, Leonard
Beauchamp, Charles
Behl, Wolfgang
Bellows, George
Berman, Eugene
Berry, Glenn
Bettina
Bowser, Frank
Bianchini, Vincenzo
Bigelow, Larry
Bill, Max
Bloom, Murray
Block, Irving
Bookatz, Samuel
Botero, Fernando
Bourdelle, Rhodia
Boxer, Stanley
Boyd, Ron
Breder, Hans
Brice, William
Broderson, Morris
Box 4
Brodie, Gandy
Bruder, Harold
Bumgardner, James
Butler, Reg
Calder, Alexander (2 folders)
Callery, Mary
Caryl, Naomi
Casey, Bernie
Casanova, Aldo
Cassatt, Mary
C, Unknown
Chagall, Marc
Chamberlain, John
Chretien, Abel
Cloar, Carroll
Cohen, Arthur
Condon, Rudolph E.
Cornell, Thomas
Coughtry, Graham
Crawford, Ralston
Christ, Noche
Cruchet, Jean-Denis
Cruz, Emilio
Cyril
Cunningham, Mike
Davey, Randall
DeCreeft, Jose
De Kooning, Elaine and Lisa
De Kooning, Willem
Delaunay, Sonia
DeLisio, Michael
Del Prado, Marina
De Moulpied, Deborah
De Niro, Robert, Sr.
De Rivera, Jose
DiGesu, Antony
Dole, William
Dorazio, Piero
Duane, Charles
Dubuffet, Jean
Duchamp, Marcel
Duncan, Sterett Kelsey
Eilshemius. Louis
Embry, Norris
Engman, Robert
Ernst, James
Evergood, Philip
Feitelson, Lorser
Fishman, Richard
Flavin, Dan
Fin, J.
Florsheim, Lillian
Frankenberg, Lloyd and Loren
Friedlander, Isac
Gabo, Naum
Gabriel, Romano
Giacometti, Alberto
Ginnever, Charles
Giobbi, Edward
Glarner, Fritz
Glasco, Joseph
Godfrey, Richard
Goldberg, Elias
Graves, Morris
Greene, Balcomb
Grooms, Mimi and Red
Gross, Chaim
Hadzi, Dimitri
Haeff, Ingeborgten
Hagerty, Clyde
Halahmy, Oded
Halpert, Edith
Halsman, Philippe
Box 5
Hanson, Hardy (Harold Hardeman)
Harmon, Lily
Harriton, Abraham
Hartung, Hans
Hayes, David
Haseltine, Herbert
Hepworth, Barbara
Herder, Addie
Herschler, David
Hertzberg, Carl
Hirshhorn, Naomi
Hockney, David
Hokanson, Hans
Hondius, Gerrit
Honegger-Lavater, Gottfriend (Warja)
Icaro
Ipousteguy, Jean-Robert
Ives, Norman
Jackson, Sarah
Jacobs, David
Jenkins, Paul
Johnson, Douglas J.
Johnson, Ray (Raymond Edward)
Jolley, George
Kahnweiler, G.
Karina, Elena
Katzen, Lila
Kelley, Chapman
Kelsey, Sterett-Gittings
King, Phillip
King, William (Bill)
Knaths, Karl
Knowles, James
Korner, John
Kreloff, Beatrice
Kulicke, Robert
Kupka, Franz
Laffan, George
Lam, Wifredo
Lark, Raymond
LeCrone, Anne
Leger, Nadia
Lessing, Janel
Levee, John
Levine, Naomi
Lipchitz, Jacques
Lipton, Seymour
Lowe, Maurice
Lukin, Sven
Lurie, Tamar and Ranan
MacDonald-Wright, Stanton
MacIver, Loren
Malicoat, Conrad
Manzu, Giacomo
Mara, Pol
Marini, Marino. Includes images of Hirshhorn with Marino.
Martin, Julie Warren
Mason, Raymond
McCabe, Lawrence
McMahon, John
Meadows, Bernard
Meyerowitz, Patricia
Miller, R. Guy
Miner, Todd
Miro, Joan
Mo, Carlo
Montenegro, Enrique
Moore, Henry
Moswitzer, Gerhardt
Motherwell, Robert
Muhlert, Christopher
Box 6
Nadas, Georgette
Nakian, Reuben
Natkin, Robert
Naylor, Geoffrey
Nevelson, Louise
Nevelson, Mike
Neujean, Nat
Noguchi, Isamu
Noland, Kenneth
Joseph H. Hirshhorn with Georgia O'Keeffe at the Museum, November 9, 1977
Nonay, Paul
Offner, Elliot
O'Keeffe, Georgia (2 Folders)
Oldenburg, Claes
Olitski, Jules
Oliveira, Nathan
Orellana, Gaston
Ossorio, Frederic
Otero, Roberto
Pan, Marta
Parker, Dave
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Pavia, Phillip
Peck, Kathy
Penalba, Alicia
Penrose, Roland
Pepper, Beverly and William
Pereire, Emmanuel
Perls, Frank
Picasso, Pablo (2 folders)
Pierelli, Attilio
Pinto, James
Pippin, Horace
Pomodoro, Arnaldo
Poncet, Antoine and Florence
Prestopino, Gregorio
Raible, John
Ramans, Modris
Rattner, Abraham
Rauschenberg, Robert
Ray, Man
Reimann, William P.
Rickey, George
Rieger, Shay
Rietta, John
Riopelle, Jean-Paul
Rivera, M.
Rivers, Larry
Robinson, John
Robles, Glenn
Rothko, Mark
Rosati, James
Rose, Herman
Rosenborg, Ralph
Roszak, Theodore
Roth, Frank
Steichen, Edward and Joanna
Sartory, Barna Von
Savitz, Frieda
Schuler, Melvin
Schuman, William
Scofield, John
Secunda, Arthur
Segalman, Richard
Sehgal, Amar Nath (Amarnath)
Serrano, Pablo
Selikowitz, Olga
Senanayake, Senaka
Shahn, Ben
Sherrill, Milton
Sherrod, Philip
Shemi, Yehiel
Shrady, Frederick
Smith, Daniel
Smith, David
Smith, Richard
Snelson, Kenneth
Box 7
Solman, Joseph
Soyer, Raphael
Soshana
Saint Phalle, Niki de
Staempfli, George
Stark, Margaret
Staude, Marguerite
Steinberg, Saul
Stern, Jan Peter
Still, Clyfford
Storel, Sergio
Stromeyer, David
Stubbs, Lu
Suttman, Paul
Szafran, Sam
Tamayo, Rufino (2 folders)
Terry, Alice
Toyofuku, Tomonori
Trajan, Turku
Turturro, Domenick
Tumarkin, Igael
Vallorz, Paolo
Valtchev, Ivan
Van Treaux
Veneto, Angela
Verkade, Kees
Vevers, Tony
Von Schlegell, David
Vytlacil, Vaclav
Wartofsky, Gerald
Wesselmann, Tom
Willis, Thornton
Wilson, Charles
Wilson, Emily
Wiseman, Ann
Witken, Isaac
Wolf, Sherry
Wyeth, Andrew
Yamamoto, Taro
Ziegler, Laura
Zorach, William (Bill)
Zilzer, Gyula
Zuniga, Francisco
Zogbaum, Wilfrid M.
Letter from Marilyn A. Smith to JHH (Dated August 11, 1977)
Series 3
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, BUSINESS PAPERS, BIRTHDAY GREETINGS, CONDOLENCE LETTERS, GARDEN TOUR INFORMATION.Box 7
Blind River
Algom Uranium Mines
JHH Rio Tinto Mining
Greenwich
Round Hill
JHH Foundation - Harris
Callahan - 1968
JHH Foundation, Appraisal
Israel Museum
Rodin Museum
Palm Springs Desert Museum
Invitations - Important Ones to Keep, 1981
Originals and photocopies of letters from publishers, actors, personal friends, and government officials pertaining book publications, paintings, and exhibitions (Accession 94-008)
JHH Birthday Celebration, 1979 (80 Years)
82nd Birthday - Senate's Wishes
Box 8
JHH Fan Letters, 1966
Fan Letters sent to JHH RE: Gift to US, Most Answered, May 1966 (4 Folders)
General Correspondence, 1963-1965 (3 folders)
Garden Tour Correspondence, 1965
General Correspondence, 1966
Garden Tour Correspondence, 1966
General Correspondence, 1967 (2 folders)
Garden Tour Correspondence, 1967
Box 9
Dining Calendar, October 1967-December 1968
Tours, 1968
Dining Calendar, May 1969-August 1970
General Correspondence, 1969
Garden Tours Correspondence, 1969
Dining Calendar, September 1970-October 1971
Garden Tours, 1970
General Correspondence, 1970
Kennedy Center Opening, 1971
Garden Tours, 1971
General Correspondence, 1971
General Correspondence, 1972 (2 folders)
Tours, 1972
Box 10
Garden Tours, 1973
Last Garden Tour Greenwich, 1973
Final Garden Tour - Arts Council
Greenwich Country Day School (2 folders)
Tour October, 1973
General Correspondence, 1974
1973 Nixon Campaign Donation
General Correspondence, 1973 (3 folders)
General Correspondence, 1974 (3 folders)
Box 11
General Correspondence, 1974 (2 folders)
General Correspondence, 1975 (2 folders)
General Correspondence, 1975 (5 folders)
Joyce Cutler Shaw, 1976
Dining Calendar, January 1975-December 1976
General Correspondence, 1976 (2 folders)
Box 12
General Correspondence, 1977 (2 folders)
General Correspondence, 1978 (2 folders)
General Correspondence, 1978 (2 folders)
General Correspondence, 1979 (2 folders)
Box 13
General Correspondence, 1979 (2 folders)
JHH 80th Birthday
Thank You Notes for 80th Birthday Telegrams
80th Birthday "Thank You's"
Outgoing Correspondence, 1979
General Correspondence, 1979 (2 folders)
Ms. Marian King, February 1980
General Correspondence, 1980 (4 folders)
General Correspondence, 1981 (2 folders)
Outgoing Correspondence - General 1981
General Correspondence, 1981
Chronological Copies of Letters, 1981
Box 14
General Correspondence, 1982
DC Tax Settlement
Condolences answered by Olga Hirshhorn
Miscellaneous Condolence Letters
Visitors Books
Sympathy: Letters, Notes, Cards - No Date Received, September 1981
Sympathy Cards and Letters, August 31-September 17, 1981
Box 15
Sympathy Cards and Letters, September 18-October 5, 1981
Sympathy: Cards and Letters
Sympathy: Cards and Letters Miscellaneous
Sympathy Messages: Telegrams, Cables, Mailgrams
Sympathy: Memorial Gifts
Box 16
Sympathy: Food Received (Thanked)
Sympathy: Flowers Received
Sympathy Messages: By Telephone - Answered
Answered
Johnson Years - White House - Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch (2 folders)
Series 4
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.Box 16
Hirshhorn Gifts to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), 1966-1978
Magazine Clippings, 1967-1981
Guggenheim Museum, September 12, 1962
Kroller-Muller Museum
Gifts
Purchase, New York
Washburn House
Northwestern University
Lucca
JHH and Olga with Burghers of Calais (removed to Box 30)
JHH Ink Portrait
Barbara Babcock Milhouse
Baltimore Museum of Art
Greystone
Portrait of Hirshhorn by Paul Feinberg - Taken in DC Garden, February 1980 (removed to Box 30)
Evans House
Florence, Italy
Blackstone Studio Portraits (removed to Box 30)
Moffett-Family Portrait (removed to Box 30)
JHH Sculpture at New York's World's Fair
World's Fair Layout
England
Cunningham and Snell - Museum Sketches, January 11, 1957 (removed to Box 30)
JHH Portrait by Sullivan (removed to Box 30)
JHH Photographs by Gjon Mili (removed to Box 30)
Wave Hill, 1977-1980
Harris, Sam - Museum
JHH Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1970-1971
JHH Museum thru 1968
JHH - Personal Museum, 1969-1970
Opening Exhibition Painting Mot in Original Gift
JHH Deed of Gift Correspondence
US Bill S3389 Provide for the Establishment of HMSG, 1966
Congressional Record, October 17, 1966
Box 17
JHH 80th Birthday Dinner
Museum Invitation List - Rough Draft
HMSG Opening
JHH Museum Clippings , 1971-1972
JHH Museum - Correspondence, 1971-1972
Opening Night JHH Museum (Original Copy of JHH's Speech)
Press release, August 5, 1974
Invitations - Hirshhorn Opening
HMSG Groundbreaking - Press Packet
Groundbreaking, January 8, 1969
Opening Night
HAHN Fin Arts Center, 1974-1975
JHH Museum - Correspondence - Moving Art to Washington, 1973-1974
Gift: Painting, Chapman Kelley
Gift: Herman Rose Painting
Famous May 21 Luncheon (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Gift: Eakins Painting
Correspondence - General JHH Museum
Deed of Gift
Gifts: From the Hirshhorn to the Museum, etc.
Sotheby Inventory - JHH Art - Parke Bernet Evaluations
Sotheby Parke Bernet #1
Box 18
Sotheby Parke Bernet #2
Appraisal of the JHH Collection of Painting and Sculpture (2 folders)
HMSG Opening - Letters from Artists, Dealers, etc.
Brochure for Tour of the Hirshhorn Gardens at "Round Hill"
Greenwich, Connecticut, Sponsored by the Friends of Channel 13
Congratulations Correspondence, 1974 (4 folders)
Washington Bicentennial - President's Program
Series 5
SOCIAL CORRESPONDENCE.Box 18
Assorted Acheson, Dean
Anderson, Jack
Arnason, H.
Bernard, Claude
Beaverbrook, Lord
Blitzer, Chas
Brademas, John
Bradley, James
Braverman, A. Marvin
Breskin, Adelyn
Brown, J. Carter
Brown, Milton
Bry, Doris
Bumshaft, Gordon
Burnham, Sophie
Cain, Dixon
Canaday, John
Capote, Truman
Carter, Jimmy
Clark, Colin
Clark, Sir Kenneth
Coates, Bob
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cooper, Douglas
Davis, Sophie
Diamond, Harold
Eichholz, Robt.
Evans, Thomas
Fishko, Bella
Fitzmorris, Dr. Andrew
Ford, President
Fortas, Abe
Fulbright, Senator John
Garcia, Gabriel
Gash, Frederick
Gavignaud, Paul
Genaurer, Emily
Box 19
Getz, Oscar
Gibson, Thomas
Gimbel, Bernard
Glazer, Bernard
Goldsheider, Cecile
Grantz, Norman
Greene, Jerome
Harmon, Lily
Harris, Sam Business
Hawley, Brenda, 1969-1970
Hawley, Brenda
Hazen, Joseph E.
Hewitt, Ed.
Holman, Libby
Hoyle, SelenaEmmet
Humphrey, Hubert
Hus, Amidee
Hyams, Barry
Javits, Jacob
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Mrs. L. B.
Joubin, Franc R.
Kahnweiler
Kay, Steve
Knowlton, Monique
Koteen, Bernard
Kramer, Hilton
Kreeger, David L. (Carmen)
Kuh, Katherine
Lapham, Lewis
Lee, Arthur
Lerner, A. 1962-1984 (6 folders)
Levine, Jos.
Levinson, Michael
Linen, James
Lipman, Howard
List, Vera and Albert
Box 20
Lloyd, Frank
Lowe, Ira
Luria, Jeffrey
Matisse, Pierre
McManus, Thomas
Melzac, Vincent
Messer, Tom
Millard, Charles
Mondale, F. (Vice President)
Moynihan, Daniel
Murray, Arthur and Kathryn
Muskie, Edmund
Newman, Arnold
Nixon, Richard President
Odlum
Perls, Frank
Perth, Lord
Pitt, Bill
Read, Sir Herbert
Present, Ignatz
Rayne, Max
Streep, Jan
Reid, Ogden
Ribicoff, A.
Ripley, S. Dillon 1965-1981 (4 folders)
Roberts, Bob
Rockefellar, Nelson
Rockefellar, David
Rodman, Seldon
Rose, Billy
Rothschild, Baron Edmund de
De Rothschild, Guy
Russel, John and Bernier, Peggy
Saarenin, Aline
Sandberg, William
Schreiber, Taft
Schutz, Anton
Seldis, Henry
Shasken, George
Shikanai, Nobutaka
Silber, John
Singe, Isaac Bashevis
Silver, Julius
Simon, Norton
Slater, John
Snead, Charles
Speyer, A. James
Stern, Isaac
Stokes, John
Sursock, Ibrahim
Sweeney, James J.
Tarlow, David
Ternbach, Jos.
Topping, James
Tunick, Judge Archibald
Vega, George Naples Business
Walbridge, Norton
Wallenstein, Mr. Alfred
Wallis, Hal
Washburn, Gordon
Weicker, L.
Wilson, William
Winters, Robert
Winthrop, John
Yessayian, Roxie
Zilkha, Abdulla
Series 6
BIOGRAPHY, AWARDS, CLIPPINGS, AND IMAGES.Box 21
Passport and Naturalization Papers
Current Biography, Vol. 27 No. 10, November 1966
SI Office of Public Affairs News Releases - 1974
Obituary News Release
Biography: Magazine Articles
Biography: Biographical Sketch Printed by HMSG
Biography: Clippings and Reprints from Newspapers
JHH Speeches
Dedicating Speech for JHH Museum
Biography: Current Biography, 1966
Art Purchases and Bills paid, 1964-1980
National Art Material Trade Association (Annual Awards), 1966
American Jewish Congress
Awards - Union Collegge
Awards - Skidmore
Horatio Alger Award
Boston University Lombard-Silber
Maryland Institute College of Art, Honorary Degree
George Washington University
Moore College of Art
Pratt Institute
Cheekwood
Skowhegan Award
Wake Forest
Baltimore Museum of Art, JHH Selects, 1970
Awards - Miscellaneous
Congressional Record
"The Nutmegger" Bicentennial Edition, September 1976
Passport Picture
JHH outside HMSG
Miscellaneou Images of JHH
JHH for Fortune, May 6, 1956
Portraits of JHH
"Action" shots of JHH
Portraits of JHH folder 2
JHH Images - Horatio Alger Awards Banquet, 1976
JHH Burghers of Calais, 1974
Assorted Snapshots of JHH
"Lou Mirodou" and Home at Cap d'Antibes - Candids of JHH
JHH by Arnold Newman - HMSG Design
Paradise Island - Taken by Frank Lloyd, January 1968
Box 22
JHH Taken by Frank Lloyd, December 1969
JHH with Maillor
Paradise Island by Frank Lloyd, 1969
Mixed Group (JHH Portraits)
JHH in Mirror, 1975
JHH - Assorted Small Images
JHH Portrait - Paul Frieberg
Press Coverage of JHH
Baltimore Wanted the Collection
Miscellaneous News Clippings, 1967-1984
IN Estate Bequest (Images)
Hirshhorn Clippings, 1963-1967
New Clippings, 1961-1967
Projects, July 23, 1973
Vogue, December 1969
Arts Yearbook #8 Contemporary Sculpture
Town and Country, March 1973
Sotheby's Catalogue "Important American Furniture: The Collection of JHH," January 30, 1982
20th Century Canadian Culture: A Symposium, 1977
Hias Building
The Nutmegger, November 1970
Richard Fishman, November 29, 1969 - Terpsichore
The Nutmegger, April 1981
Fred Gurner, Photo - 1975 (removed to Box 30)
JHH 80th Birthday Celebration, Audiotape
JHH at 80th Birthday Dancing
Douglas Wright Portrait (removed to Box 30)
Art Notes
White House Dinner Party, May 27, 1968
Entertainment
Christmas
Stock Interests, 1972-1977
Stock Interests, 1978-1979
Stock Interests, 1980
Box 23
Stock Interests, 1981
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Dedication
Friends of Channel 13 - Tour of the Hirshhorn Gardens
HMSG - Reprint from "the ART gallery magazine," 1973
Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Tour - For the Bernard College Club of Fairfield County,
September 18, 1968
Friends of Channel 13 (Copies)
Smithsonian Magazine, January 1975
JHH Duplicate Clippings, 1955-1973 (19 folders)
JHH Duplicate Clippings, 1974-1981 (8 folders)
Box 24
JHH Business Clippings
JHH Clippings - On Collecting and Miscellaneous
JHH Clippings - Breaking Ground at HMSG
JHH Miscellaneous Art Clippings, 1966-1977
JHH Clippings, August 1955-August 1965
JHH Clippings, September 1968-May 1970
JHH Clippings, December 1966-May 1968
JHH Clippings, September 8, 1965-November 3, 1966
JHH Clippings, September 1972-October 1974
JHH Clippings, 1974
Photographs
JHH at his home with wife, Lily
Gordon Hirshhorn
Skidmore, Owings, and Merill - 1967 Revised Program
Business Photos
Jack - Olga H. Art
Callahan Mining Corp. 1964 Annual Report Cover
Business Photos
Business - Mining
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Artist: Richard Howard
Gallerie Maeght - Calder
Assorted Friends
Li Suvero opening
Ottawa Museum with Sir Vincent Massay
Assorted Friends
At Warehouse with Lerner-Arnold Newman
His master's hand, 1970
Assorted Group (including JHH and Ladybird Johnson)
Los Angeles - Taken by Naomi, June 1968
Family
Box 25
Regents' Dinner, December 9, 1975: 1 candle on cake, HMSG 1 year old
Miami, Florida
Huckleberry Hill Farm
Marty and Foster Harmon
Landowski; Mondale Party; Channel 13
Honorary Degree - Pratt Institute, 1980
Tumarkin
Friends
Good Photos of Artists
JHH and Kreegers
Birthday Card
Dartmouth College Show, 1967
Photos from Naomi (Family)
Sister Annie
Prints from Gene LePere
Miscellaneous Images (Blind River, Naomi, Christmas 1967, Amy Hirshhorn)
JoAnn Hirshhorn (removed to Box 30)
May 25, 1968 - Channel 13 Fundraiser (photos removed to Box 30)
Compliments of Janet Solinger - Resident Associates
Negatives - Art Works Brigadier Studios
May 28, 1975 - Visit of the Empress to HMSG
Groundbreaking, 1969
Luncheon to discuss possibility of JHH Museum
As HMSG was being built - Trustee Meeting, 1972
October 4th 1974 - "Hirshhorn Day," JHH received Key to City from Mayor Washington
JHH Birthday, August 11, 1979 (proofs removed to Box 30)
Statues from Round Hill - October 1972 (removed to Box 30)
Calder Sculpture
Museum Staff Party - Christmas, 1973
September 24 Museum Solo Opening
September 1963
Opening Night, 1974
Miro, August 2, 1979
Gorky Opening
Assorted HMSG photos
Opening Night, Mr. Hirshhorn
2nd Trustee Meeting - December 6, 1971 - JHH Museum - Morgan Manhattan Warehouse
Trustee Meeting, June 14, 1979
With Georgia O'Keeffe at Hirshhorn, November 9, 1977
Assorted
At Site with Ripley
JHH Birthday - August 11, 1979
Opening Night, 1974
50's Opening, 1980
Press Book HMSG
JHH Press
Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn
JHH Museum and Sculpture Garden
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1899-1981
JHH Duplicates
Index of Works in Opening Exhibition
HMSG-SI
Undated Articles
German for Librarians
Photos, Negatives, Slides
Ten Watercolors and Drawings by Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931)
Box 26
Scrapbook, September 1970-March 1972
Scrapbook, 1954-1957
Scrapbook, 1953-1955
Baltimore Museum of Art, February 1970
Horatio Alger Award
First Family Picture Album, 1965
Key of Baltimore
Skowhegan Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Award
"The Final Tour" Invitation
Triangulation Station Marker
"Knox"
Box 27
Key to the City of Washington
Award from Mayor of Nashville
Happy 80th Birthday, Joe - Photo from Trustees
Happy Birthday Joe - Smithsonite
Arts Hall of Fame - 1982
Lotus Club Award
The Maryland Institute - Honorary Degree
Eakins Donation to the White House
JHH and Olga Dancing
Skidmore College - Honorary Degree
Union College - Honorary Degree
"Joseph H. Hirshhorn Day" Washington, DC, 1974
"Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn Day" Huntington, West Virginia, 1979
People Magazine, 1974
Box 28
Lerner - Arnold Newman Photos
Arnold Newman Photos
Honorary Degree - Wake Forest University
National Association of Schools of Art
National Art Materials Trade Association - 1967
"Clipper Club" - Pan Am, 1958
Washingtonian of the Year - 1974
Pratt Institute
Florida International University
JHH Portraits - Karsh
JHH Proofs by Barrett Gallagher for "Fortune"
J. R. Livermore Portrait
Medal of the James Smithson Society
Boston University Honorary Degree
JHH, LBJ, and Ladybird at the White House, 1965
Prospector's License
JHH Portrait - Maynetak, Naples, 1976
JHH Portrait
JHH Portrait by Naomi Hirshhorn
Box 29
75th Birthday Card
Lotho Frank
"Hirshhorn the Man" and "Hirshhorn the Art Collector" Jan W. Fowl
Ladybird Johnson Portrait, 1967
HMSG Groundbreaking
HMSG "Bicentennial" Birthday Card
JHH - Bachrach Portrait
JHH Portrait
JHH, St. Tropez 1969 by Norman Granz
JHH House in Angles, Pennsylvania - Colten, 1943
Box 30
Fred Gurner, Photo - 1975 (from Box 22)
Douglas Wright Portrait (from Box 22)
JHH and Olga with the Burghers of Calais (from Box 16)
Portrait of Hirshhorn by Paul Feinberg - Taken in DC Garden, February 1980 (from Box 16)
Blackstone Studio Portraits (from Box 16)
Moffett-Family Portrait (from Box 16)
Cunningham and Snell - Museum Sketches, January 11, 1957 (from Box 16)
JHH Portrait by Sullivan (from Box 16)
JHH Photographs by Gjon Mili (from Box 16)
JoAnn Hirshhorn (from Box 25)
May 25, 1968 - Channel 13 Fundraiser (from Box 25)
JHH Birthday, August 11, 1979 (from Box 25)
Statues from Round Hill, October 1972 (from Box 25)
Series 7
RESTRICTED FILES.Box 31
RESTRICTED MATERIALS - Non-Circulating
Series 8
LARGE FORMAT MATERIALS.Proposed design for HMSG
Architectural Concepts and Plans for Hirshhorn Pavilion at Regents' Park London
Newman Portraits (Photographs)
Hoffman Portrait (Charcoal or Pastel?)
Miscellaneous Biographical and Award Materials
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