Results for "Sculpture"
The Painter and the Poet: Creative Writing at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Pieces by aspiring poets—and a look at the artwork that inspired them—from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s writing workshops.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Karen Y. Lemmey
- Date: December 6, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Karen Y. Lemmey is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of sculpture, the largest collection of American sculpture in the world, and won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize.
The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall
- Date: December 11, 2018
- Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Valerie Fletcher
- Date: March 11, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Valerie Fletcher joined the research staff at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978 and was promoted to a curatorial role in 1984. Fletcher worked as an Assistant and Associate Curator, 1984–92, Curator of Sculpture, 1992–2005, and Senior Curator, 2005–16. In retirement, Fletcher continues her research at the Museum as Senior Curator Emerita. #Groundbreaker
Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation
- Date: January 26, 2021
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!
Sneak Peek 2/19/2018
- Date: February 19, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: George Washington sculpture by Horatio Greenough on display in the Museum of History and Technology, OPA-994-09.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss
- Date: March 7, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker
Sneak Peek 4/17/2017
- Date: April 17, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: National Air and Space Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden under construction, 72-10414-16A.
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See Here: 9/10/2010
- Date: September 10, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Aerial view of the Sculpture Garden of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden taken on opening night, October 4, 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder November 1974, Negative Number: 94-2860."][/caption]
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anne-Louise Marquis
- Date: June 22, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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See Here: 6/3/2010
- Date: June 3, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Georgia O'Keefe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) with Rene Magritte's sculpture "Delusions of Grandeur," 11 November 1977, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1977, Negative Number: 92-1789."][/caption]
The Room That Could Have Been
- Date: November 11, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe and the Hirshhorns had a friendly relationship. Read about how the two almost negotiated a deal to create a room dedicated to her work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.