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Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn.
In addition to the human likenesses, a number of public and private sculptures of animals, objects, and abstractions are spread throughout the city. Two museums on the National Mall include sculpture gardens: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art.
Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1974 [12] National Air and Space Museum: Aviation and spaceflight history Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1946, 1976 [note 1] [13]
Wish Tree for Washington, DC is a public art work by Yoko Ono.. As a part of her Imagine Peace billboard project, [1] it was installed in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on April 2, 2007, [2] during the 2007 National Cherry Blossom Festival, as one of ten in the city [3] and is part of the museum's permanent collection.
Estate and gardens of Marjorie Merriweather Post, rooms decorated with her collections of 18th- and 19th-century French art, china and art treasures from Imperial Russia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Smithsonian Institution: Art Contemporary and modern art Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Independent History, Library
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Hirshhorn director James Demetrion first saw the sculpture when it was on display in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. [4] The sculpture was acquired by the Hirshhorn with funds from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, a gift from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and by exchange of the di Suvero artwork ISIS, [4] in 1999. [1]
Chinese and Japanese art represent about half of the collection. [17] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library (Washington, D.C.): modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, and emerging art forms.