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Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Washington, D.C.,
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Exhibits and Design
SI Records
Exhibition Records
1971-1989
10.5 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Record Unit 516
English
Prefered Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 516, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Department of Exhibits and Design, Exhibition Records
Historical Note
The Department of Exhibits and Design, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), is responsible for arranging permanent and temporary HMSG exhibits and monitoring
conditions in the Museum's exhibit galleries. From 1971 to 1976 the Department operated under the Director's Office. In 1976 Joseph Shannon was made acting Chief of the Department.
He served as Chief from 1977 to 1986. Edward P. Schiesser succeeded Shannon, serving 1986- .
Descriptive Entry
These records include the correspondence of Shannon and Schiesser; minutes of meetings; exhibition proposals; installation floor plans; scripts; conservation planning;
budgets; and photographs of HMSG, art works, and artists; and modifications to the Museum's Sculpture Garden.
Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Name
Shannon, Joe
Schiesser, Edward P.
Subject
Museum exhibits
Art, Modern
Art museums
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Floor plans
Manuscripts
Black-and-white photographs
Illustrations
Box 1
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Acquisitions
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Banner Poles, 1977-1978
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Budget, 1974
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Collections, 1974-1975
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Gallery Installations, 1975
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Memoranda, 1976 (2 folders)
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Exhibits, 1981
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American Association of Museums (AAM) Meetings, 1976
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Budget, 1977-1980
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Building Specifications, 1971-1979
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HMSG Carpet, 1977
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Conservation, 1971-1980
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Correspondence, 1975-1978
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Damage Paintings, 1978
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Electrical and Lighting, 1978-1980
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Exhibition Handouts, 1977-1978
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Frame Shop, 1976-1977
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Freight Elevator Doors and Cove, 1977-1978
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Front Lawn: Posts and Chain, 1976. Includes blueprint.
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Future Exhibitions, 1977-1978
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Morandi Kulicke and Arikha, 1979
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Memoranda, 1975-1979
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Garden Installations, 1976-1977, 1980
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Garden/Plaza Appointments, 1974, 1978-1979
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Installation Procedures, 1973-1974
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Interior Cases and Pedestals, 1974
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Graphics and Design, 1979-1980
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Label Copy for Non-Exhibits, 1978
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Label Designs, 1980
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Landscaping, 1980
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Gallery Lighting, 1973-1977
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Minutes of Meetings, 1973
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Minutes of Meetings, 1977-1980
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Museum Visits and Letters of Inquiry, 1974-1976
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Non-Gallery Placements, 1975-1978
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Painters, 1977
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Office of Exhibits Central, 1976-1980
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Sculpture Pedestals, 1973-1979. Includes photographs and drawings.
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Personnel, 1978
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Personnel, 1976, 1980
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Realist Criminal Article
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Personnel Actions, 1971, 1977
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Registrar, 1978
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Reports to the Director
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Silk-Screening, 1974-1977
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Safety Committee, 1980
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Exhibition Scheduling, 1978-1979
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Exhibition Scripts
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Sculpture Garden Plans, 1979. Consists mostly of drawings.
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Museum Security Planning, 1976-1981
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Signage and General Graphics, 1975-1979
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Special Projects, 1975-1979
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Storage, 1977
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Memoranda, 1975-1977
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Facilities Planning, 1979
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Urinal Graphics
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Homage to Joseph Albers
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Ambulatory Reinstallation, 1979. Includes drawings and blueprints.
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The Animal in Art, 1977
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Art Deco, 1980
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Banner Project Blueprint
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Bacon Mechanical
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1976 Bicentennial Planning
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Botero, Fernando
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Brancusi Photographs
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Business Cards
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Calder's Universe: Whitney Museum Exhibition, 1978-1979
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14 Canadians, 1977
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Caries Collection, 1977
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Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
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e. e. Cummings Film, 1976
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De Stijl: Visions of Utopia, 1982. Includes brochures, blueprints, drawings, and articles (2 folders)
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Directions Project, 1978-1979
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Directions II Project, 1981. Includes blueprints and drawings.
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Directory Sign, 1980
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Di Suvero Exhibition, 1977-1978
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Thomas Eakins Exhibition, 1976-1977
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Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects, 1977
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Louis M. Eilshemius Exhibition, 1979. Includes blueprints and sketches.
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Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900. An exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978.
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The Ephemeral is Eternal: Posters, 1982
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Escalator Lobby
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HMSG Equipment List
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Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape, 1979
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Inaugural Exhibition; Garden, Plaza Sculpture
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George Grosz Exhibition, 1978
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Philip Evergood Exhibition, 1978
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Exterior Painters, 1974
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The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1980.
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HMSG Floor and Ceiling Plans
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Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1981
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Gallery Changes, 1981. Includes blueprints and drawings.
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Gallery Notices
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Murals Without Walls: Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered, 1980.
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Europe in the 1970s: Aspects of Recent Art, 1978
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Bregory Gillespie Exhibition, 1978
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Heirs of De Stijl, 1982
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Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, 1981
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Hirshhorn Holiday, 1982
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Joseph H. Hirshhorn Memoriam Booklet, 1981
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Exhibition Graphics, 1974-1975
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Travels with David Hockney, 1979
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Hans Hofmann Exhibition, 1976
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Ibero-American Art, 1981
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Itek Labels
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R. B. Kitaj Exhibition, 1981
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Landscapes Exhibition, 1981
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David Levine Exhibition, 1976
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Lighting Fixtures
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Maillol L'action Enchain
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Didactics, 1980-1981
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Alfred H. Maurer Exhibition, 1979
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Metaphor Exhibition, 1981-1982
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Mexican Art, 1978
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Joan Miro Retrospective, 1980
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Henry Moore Exhibition, 1978
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Mahmoud Moukhtar Sculpture Exhibition, 1981
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Elie Nadelman Exhibition, ca. 1974-1975
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Jacques Lipchitz Exhibition, 1980
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Preliminary Selections for the Lower Level, 1980
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Nadelman Exhibition Plans
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Reuben Nakian Exhibition, 1980
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Robert Natkin Exhibition, 1979
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Minoru Niizuma Exhibition, ca. 1976-1977. Includes photographs.
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New Acquisitions Show, 1974-1976
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New York: The Artists View, 1980
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Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art, 1979
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Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective of Early Works, 1977
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Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros: A Selection from Mexican National Collections, 1978.
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Inaugural Exhibition, Painting and Sculpture
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Directions Exhibition, 1982-1983 (3 folders)
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David Smith: Steel into Sculpture, 1983. Includes blueprints and drawings. (5 folders)
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Educational Brochures
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Gallery Changes, 1982
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Revisions to the Sculpture Garden, 1979. Includes review submission, photographs, and blueprints.
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HMSG Portal Bollards, 1980
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The Noble Buyer: John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, 1978.
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Red Grooms from the Museum's Collection, 1982
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Hans Richter's Stalingrad (Victory in the East), 1977
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Larry Rivers Exhibition, 1981
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Russian Avante-Garde Exhibition, 1981
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Samuel Murray Exhibition
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Small Paintings, 1980
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Mayan Stelae Exhibition
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Belgium Show, 1979
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Alexandra Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs, 1980.
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Josef Albers Collection
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Raphael Soyer Collection, 1980
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Oscar Bluemner Collection, 1980
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David Smith: Exhibition Installation, 1979
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Kenneth Snelson Exhibition, 1981
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SOTO: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1975-1976
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal for Artists, 1982
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Raphael Soyer: Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking, 1982
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Small Exhibitions, 1976
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Small Exhibitions, 1977
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European Abstraction, 1982
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Staff Art Show, 1981
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Saul Steinberg Exhibition, 1978
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Joseph Cornell: The Cubist Heritage, 1978
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Small Exhibitions, 1978
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Thomas Eakins Exhibition, 1977
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HMSG Reinstallation, Second Floor
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Work Requests, 1975-1978 (2 folders)
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Sculpture Pedestals: Measurements
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Third Floor Painting and Sculpture, 1973-1975
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Exterior Sculpture Pedestals, 1974-1975
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Styrofoam Mock-up Project, 1974-1975
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Variations on Musical Theme, 1982
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Stanchions, 1976
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Plexiglas Vitrine, 1973-1975 (2 folders)
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Sculpture Running List
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Kircher & Associates, 1976 (2 folders)
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Allegories and Fantasies, 1985
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Armory Show, 1987-1988
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Arnold Newman Exhibition, 1987
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Art from Italy, 1983
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Bequests, 1987 (2 folders)
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Bridging the Century, 1987
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Castle Graphics I-11, 1986
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Conservation, 1985
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Houston Conwill Works, 1989
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Jim Dine: Five Themes, 1984-1985
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David Levine, 1987
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Directions Project: Correspondence and Blueprints, 1986 (3 folders)
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Direct Carving Exhibition, 1985
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Directions Project: Robert Cummings, Intuitive Inventions, 1988.
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Directions Project: Joel Shapiro, 1987-1988 Directions Project: Sherrie Levine, 1988
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Directions: Keith Sonnier, 1989
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Different Drummers, 1988
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Friedel Dzubas Exhibition, 1982-1983
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"The Eight" Exhibition: New Art Realism, 1982-1983
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Elements of Art: Color, 1983
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European Modernism, 1984-1985. Includes blueprints.
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Expressive: Central European Art Since 1960
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Sculpture Garden, 1977-1982 (2 folders)
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German Expressionist Sculpture, 1983-1984. Includes slides. (3 folders)
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Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective, 1987
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Giacomo / Manzu Exhibition
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Joseph Stella Exhibition, 1983
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Lucian Freud: Paintings, 1987 (2 folders)
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Lucian Freud Retrospective Show, 1987 (2 folders)
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Manzu Show, 1983
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Morris Louis Exhibition, 1987 (2 folders)
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Artwork Purchases, 1983
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Pakistan Exhibition, 1982
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Patterned Images, 1987
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Recent Acquisitions, 1986 (2 folders)
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Recent British Sculpture, 1986-1987 (3 folders)
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Relief Sculpture, 1985-1986
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Representation Abroad: Special Events Correspondence, 1985. (2 folders)
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Ring Collection, 1985
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Robert Arneson Retrospective Show, 1986
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Roger Brown Exhibition, 1987
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Russian and Soviet Paintings 1900-1930: Selections from the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum of Leningrad, 1988.
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Sea & Shore, 1987
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Sixteen Artists from Italy, 1985-1986
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Tenth Anniversary: Labels and Didactics, 1984
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Tenth Anniversary: Plans and Forms, 1984
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Tenth Anniversary: Memoranda and Checklist, 1984
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Tenth Anniversary: Graphics
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Thomas Eakins Photographs, 1989
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Vernon Fisher Exhibition, 1988
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Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1988
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Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, 1988. Includes photographs of the Hirshhorn Museum.
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Sol LeWitt, 1987-1988
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Sculpture Garden and Plaza: Modifications for the Handicapped, 1981. Includes drawings.
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Paul Gauguin Installation, 1981
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Videotaping Lectures, 1981
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Modern Indian Paintings, 1982
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Gaston Lachaise, 1988
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Henri Matisse, 1981
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Hirshhorn Museum Plaza, 1981
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Exhibition Labels
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Joseph Stella, 1982
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Tenth Anniversary: Installation Budget, 1982
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Hirshhorn Museum Restaurant, 1979
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Utility Door Project, 1980
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Hirshhorn Museum Bookstore Renovation, 1987
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Correspondence, 1982
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Cubist Sculpture Brochure, 1987
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Gallery Changes, 1987
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Gallery Changes, 1986
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Gallery Changes, 1986 (3 folders)
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Gallery Changes, 1985
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Memoranda, 1985
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Minutes of Meetings, 1985
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Memoranda, 1984
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Memoranda, 1983
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Memoranda, 1982
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German Expressionist Sculpture, 1987