HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN

Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented by him to the nation in 1966. Opened in 1974, it is the capital city's first museum devoted exclusively to modern art. The building is a circular, windowless slab of concrete faced with pink granite. The sculpture garden extends from the glass-walled interior courtyard of the building; it contains a shallow pool and a fountain surrounded by masterworks of 19th- and 20th-century sculpture that are considered the chief strength of the collection. The painting collection is especially strong in works by Eakins and examples of pop art, op art, color-field painting, and the new realism. In addition to works from the collection and new acquisitions, temporary exhibitions organized in collaboration with other museums are presented. The museum's full name is the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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books on: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  - 56 results

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Sculpture since 1945
Book by Andrew Causey; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern--20th Century--History
...Power , 1967, at the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund...Turnbull: Permutation Sculpture , 1956. Bronze...O 31.8 O 28 cm. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution...Washington. Gift of Joseph Hirshhorn 1996/photo Lee Stalsworth...
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Museum Careers and Training: A Professional Guide
Book by Victor J. Danilov; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Museum Techniques--Study And Teaching (Higher)--United States, Museums--Employees--Training Of--United States, Museums--United States--Personnel Management, Museums--Vocational Guidance--United States
...357-4911. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Internships The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...internship, the museum requests a tuition...placed in one of the museums departments. For...Education Dept., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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Museum Management
Book by Kevin Moore; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Museums--Management
...every corner, museums were to compromise...denominator. For museums, as with...Journal of Museum Management...director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and Brent...the Boston Museum of Science...1987. 8 Museums should be...
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A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture
Book by Matthew Baigell; Icon Editions, 1996
Subjects: Art, American
...8 . The Brooklyn Museum. Caroline H. Polhemus...8 x8 . Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution...3/8 x3 x21/4 . Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...306 x328 x208 . Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000
Book by Jo Lauria, Gretchen Adkins; LACMA; Rizzoli International Publications, 2000
Subjects: Ceramic Sculpture--20th Century--Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art--Catalogs, Pottery--20th Century--Exhibitions, Smits, Gwen Laurie--Art Collections--Exhibitions, Smits, Howard--Art Collections--Exhibitions
...painting and sculpture has suggested...pottery into the museum as art, winning...exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington...the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam...cups and cup sculptures from the collection...
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journal articles on: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  - 16 results

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Reviews Online
Journal article; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 92, 2010
Subjects: Art history, Books, Cultural identity, Fairs & exhibitions, Impressionism, New York, Photography, Sculpture
...Civic Ideals and Sculpture in Italy, c. 1240...HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART. A Room of...Stomberg. HIGH MUSEUM OF ART. Leonardo...by .Anne Leader. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. Anne Truill: Perception...
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Bibliography of the Visual Arts and Architecture in the South, Part Xxii
Journal article by Judith H. Bonner; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2010
Subjects: African Americans, Art exhibits, Art galleries & museums, Black Mountain College, Colleges & universities, Visual artists
...New York: Museum of Modern Art...Michael C. Carlos Museum. Anne Truitt: Early Drawings and Sculpture, 1958-1963...Sampson Meyer, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Anne Truitt...Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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William Kentridge
Journal article by Laurie Ann Farrell; African Arts, Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: Animals as artists--Exhibitions, Animals as artists--Works, Animals--Exhibitions, Animals--Works, Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Artists, Artists--Exhibitions, Artists--Works, Kentridge, William--Exhibitions, Kentridge, William--Works, Minorities, Minorities as artists, New Museum of Contemporary Art--Exhibitions, Prisoners, Prisoners as artists, South Africans--Works
...Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art...Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art...touring major American museums, that includes eleven...exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution...
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Exhibition Reviews: Willem de Kooning
Journal article by David Cateforis; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art exhibits, Visual artists, de Kooning, Willem
...and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian...Exhibition schedule: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian...respectively, by the Hirshhorn Museum and the National...Neither the Hirshhorn nor the National...his drawings, sculptures, and prints...the Hirshhorn museums seventy-one...
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Seeing Morris Louis Now
Journal article by Lisa Frye Ashe; Art Journal, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Louis, Morris--Exhibitions, Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions
...Jeffrey D. Grove, High Museum of Art, Atlanta...May 6, 2007; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC...early this year at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...exhibition at the Hirshhorn, and despite the...
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"Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Magazine article by Mario Naves; New Criterion, Vol. 18, January 2000
Subjects: Art--20th century, Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden--Exhibitions
...Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Mario Naves...Century" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...visitors to the Hirshhorn Museum come upon a wall...I visited the Hirshhorn, gallery-goers...the Washington museums would be bustling...
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"The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture"; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Magazine article by Michelle Kuo; Artforum International, Vol. 45, February 2007
Subjects: Modern sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture, Modern--Exhibitions
...Sculpture"; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington...Ideas: Recent Sculpture": You will never...all aspects of a sculpture at once, and...If contemporary sculpture has increasingly...between the shows sculptures and several peripheral...culled from the museums permanent collection...
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"Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers": HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, DC
Magazine article by Nuit Banai; Artforum International, Vol. 49, September 2010
Subjects: Klein, Yves--Criticism and interpretation, Museums
...Full Powers": HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON...Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington...sponge reliefs and sculptures, and air-architecture...situation at the Hirshhorn is a well-crafted...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Magazine article by Carol Armstrong; Artforum International, Vol. 44, Summer 2006
Subjects: Images, Photographic--Exhibitions, Photographs--Exhibitions, Sugimoto, Hiroshi--Exhibitions
...Hiroshi Sugimoto: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington...retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington...portraits and stone sculptures alike. The materiality...organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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Sean Scully: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Magazine article by Glenn Dixon; Artforum International, Vol. 34, October 1995
Subjects: Artists--Exhibitions, Scully, Sean--Exhibitions
Sean Scully: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Glenn Dixon Before this retrospective...conversation with Ned Rifkin, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...speaking at a press briefing, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...
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newspaper articles on: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  - 182 results

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Hirshhorn Exhibit Stresses High Anxiety
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, June 23, 1996
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hirshhorn exhibit stresses...curator for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, decided to...Benezra and Hirshhorn assistant curator...ongoing series of sculptures, "La Casa...galleries on the museums second floor...
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Different Hues, Views of Beauty: Hirshhorn Exhibit Takes a Pleasing Look at Modern Interpretations of Loveliness
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, October 9, 1999
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
...the Brooklyn Museum of Art last...Giuliani. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is focusing...Though the Hirshhorn shows how 30...definition. The Hirshhorn says beautys...Louise Bourgeois sculptures of fecundity...
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Hirshhorn Curator Pictures the 'Street'
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, August 18, 2001
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
...Museum and Sculpture Garden as chief curator...Angeles. "The Hirshhorn hasnt concentrated...arrived at the Hirshhorn. At first...scenario. The Hirshhorn curator says...curator feels the museum ranks among the top museums collecting...
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`Recent Acquisitions' at the Hirshhorn Paints Broad Sweep
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, July 20, 1997
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
...Acquisitions at the Hirshhorn paints broad...acquisitions" by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: * Cuban artist...making up "The Hirshhorn Collects...paintings, sculptures, graphics...half of the museums collection...
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Images of Contorted Reality at Hirshhorn Show
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, July 19, 1998
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
...contorted reality at Hirshhorn show by Joanna...visiting the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. You reach the museums third floor...doll-like sculptures. Through images...especially for the Hirshhorn exhibit. Five...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Washington, D...industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented...capital citys first museum devoted exclusively...collaboration with other museums are presented...the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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Museums of Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Metropolitan Museum of Art , the...much of the museums superb medieval...Cloisters ); the Museum of Modern...art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, devoted...Cincinnati Art Museum , the Art...and the museums and galleries...
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Smithsonian Institution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...institution began as a museum and today "the...is the largest museum complex in the world, with 19 museums, nine research...Anacostia Community Museum; the Arthur M...Gallery of Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ; the National...


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