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Greetings from the SmithsonianA Postcard History

See how Washington, DC and Smithsonian visitors have shared their trips with others by taking a historic look at the Smithsonian through the picture postcard.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

S. Dillon Ripley, the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian, wanted the Smithsonian to have a contemporary art museum. He worked tirelessly to persuade Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899-1981) to donate his collections to the Smithsonian. On November 7, 1966, the collections of Hirshhorn officially came under the auspices of the Smithsonian. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened to the public on October 4, 1974. The postcards in this gallery show works that are or have previously been at the Hirshhorn.

Postcard of "Scene at Houghton Farm"
Color postcard of American landscape painter Winslow Homer's Scene at Houghton Farm (c.1878) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07767 (front) and SIA2013-07768 (back). 
Postcard of "T. Lucretii"
Color postcard of T. Lucretii (c. 1955), an Assemblage constructed by Joseph Cornell from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07769 (front) and SIA2013-07770 (back). 
Postcard of "East Side, New York"
Color postcard of Louis Eilshemius’ painting East Side, New York (c.1908) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07771 (front) and SIA2013-07772 (back).
Postcard of "Reclining Nude with Guitar"
Color postcard of Jacques Lipchitz's Reclining Nude with Guitar sculpture (1928) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Cubist bronze sculpture is in the Sculpture Garden. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box1, Negative NumbersSIA2013-07773 (front) and SIA2013-07774 (back).
Postcard of "Goat's Horn with Red"
Color postcard of painter and photographer Georgia O'Keeffe's Goat's Horn with Red (1945), a pastel on paperboard work from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07775 (front) and SIA2013-07776 (back).
Postcard of "Beach at Gloucester"
Color postcard of Post-Impressionist Maurice Prendergast’s painting, Beach at Gloucester (c. 1912-1914) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07777 (front) and SIA2013-07778 (back). 
Postcard of "Two Discs"
Color postcard of Adolph Gottlieb's Two Discs (1963), an abstract expressionist painting from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07723 (front) and SIA2013-07724 (back). 
Postcard of "The Burghers of Calais"
Color postcard of Auguste Rodin's sculpture, The Burghers of Calais (1886), from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The bronze sculpture depicts six men of Calais when they went to the gates to meet their conqueror, Edward III of England, in 1347. The image shows the work in the Sculpture Garden. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07725 (front) and SIA2013-07726 (back).
Postcard of "Number 3, 1949"
Color postcard of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s Number 3, 1949 (1949) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07727 (front) and SIA2013-07728 (back). 
Postcard of "The Therapeutist"
Color postcard of René Magritte's sculpture The Therapeutist (1967), also known as The Healer, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The surrealist sculpture is made of bronze. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07729 (front) and SIA2013-07730 (back).
Postcard of "Beach Scene"
Color postcard of American Impressionist Edward Potthast's Beach Scene (c. 1916-1920) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07731 (front) and SIA2013-07732 (back).
Postcard of "Morning Light"
Color postcard of modernist painter Oscar Bluemner's Morning Light (c. 1912-1916) from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. c. 1980, Museum Press Inc., Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 87-147, Box 1, Negative Numbers SIA2013-07733 (front) and SIA2013-07734 (back).
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