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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. It's even a far cry from her second life as Mrs. Cunningham, the teenage wife of her high school English teacher, the mother of three sons at 25,
She helped support the family with a series of little businesses run from the house: a children's swimming class, then a day camp, nursery school and baby-sitting service. By the time she and her first husband separated, all this had evolved into Services Unlimited, an employment agency.
And one day in 1961 the phone rang in her office. She answered it herself It was Joseph Hirshhorn. "I've just bought the…
- Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection.
- Magazine article from: Art Journal Cateforis, David December 22, 1994 700+ words
...the 1960s, as do the warm letters between de Kooning and Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn published in the exhibition catalogue. The catalogue also reveals that Joseph Hirshhorn's patronage of de Kooning extended beyond the mere purchase of his...
- Turmoil at the Corcoran.(FRONT PAGE)(Frank Gehry-designed project on hold)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie September 1, 2005 700+ words
...with the $100 million needed to kick off the project. Instead--perhaps a sign of rough times ahead--philanthropist Olga Hirshhorn withdrew a large gift to the Corcoran because of the board's treatment of Levy, but over the summer a museum spokesperson...
- Art and its markets: a roundtable discussion.(Discussion)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International April 1, 2008 700+ words
...70s. Such engagements--by Seymour H. Knox with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, for example, or by Joseph Hirshhorn with the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC--might have brought them some social prestige. But genuine civil service...
- Place to Be.
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) August 2, 2008 700+ words
...exhibits: “re.action: art that will move you” (May 31-August 31) and “Olga Hirshhorn Collects,” an intimate view at a private collection (May 31- September 31). Baltimore artist Rick Eisenmann...
- Generosity and Standards : a note from the secretary.(Smithsonian has ultimate...
- Magazine article from: Smithsonian Small, Lawrence M. July 1, 2001 700+ words
...placed limits on the acquisition and use of works of art in what became the Freer Gallery. Dr. Arthur M. Sackler and Joseph Hirshhorn were also involved in the formation of the world-class facilities on the National Mall that are named for them. Similarly...
- Smithsonian horizons. (increasing market value of art) (column)
- Magazine article from: Smithsonian Adams, Robert McC. February 1, 1989 700+ words
...Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, must daily confront the dilemma of how, in view of these dramatic changes, to sustain Joseph Hirshhorn's original vision living museum" devoted to the finest contemporary art of succcssively unfolding periods of time...
- Larry Aldrich, 1906-2001. (Artworld).(Obituary)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie December 1, 2001 700+ words
...changed its name to the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and established a board of trustees, which included Barr, Joseph Hirshhorn, Philip Johnson and Vera List. In 1973, Aldrich founded the SoHo Center for Visual Arts, a nonprofit space for artists...
- Flower power: an imaginative installation recalls an all-but-forgotten art...
- Magazine article from: Smithsonian Edwards, Owen April 1, 2007 700+ words
...his death," says Hirshhorn curator Anne Ellegood. "Galleria dell'Obelisco in Rome had an edition of 40 made, and Joseph Hirshhorn bought one of these sets." The winds of war blasted away the esteem that Giacomo Balla--whose influence, Schnapp...
- Body sculpting.(From The Attic)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Smithsonian Py-Lieberman, Beth October 1, 2004 700+ words
...was built to showcase many of the 6,000 modern paintings and sculptures donated by Greenwich, Connecticut, financier Joseph Hirshhorn--the largest artistic bequest ever made to the Smithsonian. (Hirshhorn died in 1981.) Some architecture critics...
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