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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.
National Gallery of Art [214] Four-Sided Pyramid: Sol LeWitt: 1997 National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden: Concrete blocks & Mortar: 15 ft. 3/8 in. × 33 ft. 1/2 in. × 31 ft. 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in. National Gallery of Art [215] Chair Transformation Number 20B
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]
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
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.
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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.
In 1995 she donated over 600 works to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC., estimated at the time to be worth about 10 million dollars, which surprised the art world since it had been expected that her art would go to the Hirshhorn Museum. [3] She served on the boards of the Hirshhorn Museum as well as the Corcoran Gallery. [4]