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Olga Hirshhorn and the art of living.(Smithsonian houses late husband, Joseph Hirshhorn's art collection)
"OH, THERE'S THAT BARYE BRONZE OF THESEUS AND THE centaur--it was in our garden . . ."
Olga Hirshhorn is strolling with me through the museum the Smithsonian built on the Mall to house her late husband's remarkable collection of art. She comes here a lot. It's like old times.
"The thing I notice is how nice the patina is here on the sculptures. We used to hire college kids to polish them, and they did their best. But it's so much nicer here," she said.
It has been a long trip from Olga Zatorsky's modest home in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she was the youngest of three children in a Ukrainian blue-collar family, to this spectacular museum. ...
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