The Ripley Years: Expansion, Restoration, and to Put It Politely, Still More Architectual Diversity
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PrintArticle focuses on the major building projects from the mid-1960's to the end of the 1970's that Secretary S. Dillon Ripley undertook at the Smithsonian Instiutuion. The article highlights Ripley's involvement with acquiring funding and support for the Hirshhorn Museum, the Festival of American Folklife, the National Air and Space Museum, the Renwick Gallery, the Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of American Art (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and the National Portrait Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the National Museum of African Art, and the S. Dillon Ripley International Center.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
The article focuses more on the building projects than Ripley himself.
AIA Journal (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
May 1981
pp. 54-61