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Joseph Hirshhorn
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Olga Zatorsky was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to immigrant parents from Ukraine. She graduated from Greenwich High School in 1939 and married her English teacher, John Cunningham, and they had three sons together. [1] In 1964, she divorced Cunningham and married Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who died in 1981. She owned houses in Martha's Vineyard ...
The museum, whose original board of trustees included Alfred Barr, Joseph Hirshhorn, Philip Johnson, and Vera List, was renamed The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967. To better focus on its founding mission to exhibit only the very newest art, the museum's board voted in 1981 to deaccession the museum's permanent collection.
In 1953, Joubin persuaded Joseph H. Hirshhorn to finance exploratory drilling and Hirshhorn signed a contract with Eldorado Mining and Refining Ltd, the Canadian Crown Corporation that bought all uranium in Canada; together they quickly started the Pronto Mine.
A third cast was exhibited at the Curt Valentin Gallery in New York, was bought by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and is now in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. [6] A fourth cast was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London in February 1954, to mixed reviews, some disliking the mixture of figurative and abstract elements.
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]
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 ...