Joseph H. Hirshhorn archival audio collection, 1969-1984.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was a gift to the nation from the financier and avid collector of modern art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Hirshhorn began his collecting with prints in 1917, and it became his lifelong passion. Hirshhorn's collection is best known for its nineteenth and twentieth century sculpture, including the works of Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Calder, and Moore. He also collected widely and enthusiastically from the works of contemporary American painters, includi...

Hirshhorn, Joseph Herman, 1899-1981

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Joseph Herman Hirshhorn was born in 1899 in Mitau, Latvia. In 1905 his mother emigrated with her children to the United States and settled the family in Brooklyn, New York. To keep the family afloat, the children had to help, and Joseph left school at the age of twelve to sell newspapers. By the age of fourteen, he was an office boy for the firm that later became the American Stock Exchange. In a short time, he became a chartist, charting stocks for an editor on Wall Street. In 1916 he took a sm...

Neel, Alice, 1900-1984

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Alice Neel (1900-1984) was a painter in New York, NY. She was known for her portraits of New York artists and intellectuals. Neel studied painting at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now the Moore College of Art and Design) from 1921-1925. She married Cuban artist Carlos Enríquez, and they briefly lived in Havana, Cuba. After the break-up of their marriage, she settled in New York City. During the 1930s she worked for the Public Works of Art Project and the Works Progress Administrat...

Affee, Mikey.

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Hirshhorn, Olga, 1920-2015

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Olga Hirshhorn (April 26, 1920 – October 3, 2015) was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1939 and married her English teacher, John Cunningham, and they had three sons together. In 1964, she divorced Cunningham and married Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who died in 1981. ...

Cummings, Paul (Singer)

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Littlefield was a painter, writer and art collector; New York, N.Y. Died 1969. Cummings, an art historian, was an expert on drawings and prints. From the description of William Horace Littlefield letters and photographs to Paul Cummings, 1951-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122390381 Art historian and editor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Paul Cummings papers, 1967-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594609 ...

Lerner, Abram

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Museum director; Wash., D.C. From the description of Abram Lerner interview, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81787135 Abram Lerner, Museum director of Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Abram Lerner, 1975 Dec. 9-1976 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395750 Museum director (Washington, D.C.). From the description of Abram Lerner interviews, 1975 Dec. 9-1976 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Cooper, E. J

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Percival, John.

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Dzubas, Friedel, 1915-1994

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Painter; Ithaca, New York. Died 1994. From the description of Pop art, What? : lecture transcript; [ca. 1960]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546097 From the description of Friedel Dzubas interviews, 1982 Aug. 5 and 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82962550 ...

Banker, Stephen R., 1956-

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