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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. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian Institution established the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., in 1966 to hold the collection; the museum opened in 1974. At Hirshhorn's death in 1981, he willed an additional 6,000 works and a $5 million endowment to the museum.
1,800 cm (60 ft × unknown ft × unknown ft) Location. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States. Coordinates. 38°53′16.4″N 77°1′20.99″W / 38.887889°N 77.0224972°W / 38.887889; -77.0224972. Owner. Smithsonian Institution. Needle Tower is a public artwork by American sculptor Kenneth Snelson ...
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] National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Aviation and spaceflight history Chantilly, Virginia ...
Smithsonian Institution. Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) is a sculpture by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., United States. [1] The sculpture is named after poet Marianne Moore 's "What Are Years". [2] From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014, the ...
The Old Oaken Bucket (Grandma Moses) Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Throwback (3/3) Torso of a Young Man. Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points.
Within the conservation lab at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, specialized activities for the treatment and care of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and time-based media are performed. As an aid in treatment and to better understand the artist's creative methods and materials, conservators closely examine works of art using a ...
Melissa Chiu. Melissa Chiu (born 1972) is an Australian museum director, curator and author, and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, [ 1] the American Alliance of Museums, and the Museum Association of New York. [ 2]