Valerie J. Fletcher
Senior Curator (Modern Art)

Hirsshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
HMSG 436 MRC 350
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
fletcherv@si.edu

Education

B.A. (1973) Connecticut College; M.A. (1976), M. Phil. (1979), Ph.D. (1994), Columbia University

Research Interests

European and American art, 1880-1970, particularly modern sculpture

Current Research Projects

*Materials and techniques as part of the creative process of sculpture. *Sculpture conservation and display.

*Sculpture gardens. *Individual artists: Albers, Archipenko, Arp, Baizerman, Bourgeois, Degas, Giacometti,

Louis, Moore, Nadelman, Noguchi, Picasso, Rickey, Rodin, Smith, Snelson, & others.

Current or Projected Exhibits

*Surrealist sculpture (history and aesthetics of). *Deaccessioning process & practice.

Current Publications

2008 - "Art of Pride and Anger" in Wifredo Lam. Marquette University & Miami Art Museum. 2007 - George Rickey. Vero Beach Museum of Art & tour.

2004 - Isamu Noguchi. NY & Washington DC: Scala Publishers for Hirshhorn Museum & Whitney Museum.

2003 - "Process and Technique in Picasso's Head of a Woman" in Picasso: Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier. Washington DC: NGArt, pp. 165-192.

2001 - "Elie Nadelman: Art and Craft in Context" in Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk. NY: AFA, pp. 80-95.

1998 - "Violence, Alienation, and Uncertainty in the Art of Alberto Giacometti" in Alberto Giacometti. Montreal Museum of Fine Art, pp. 17-29.

1998 - A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum. Washington DC & London: Hirshhorn Museum & Thames Hudson.

1997 - "Giacometti: Modern Master," in Alberto Giacometti. Japan: Hiroshima Art Museum, pp. 11-42. 1996 - The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art. New York & Washington DC: Harry N. Abrams & SI (41 entries).

1996 - "Giacometti's Paintings," in Alberto Giacometti. Vienna: Kunsthalle, pp. 53-59 & Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, pp. 27-30, 43.

1995 - The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum (Degas, Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Archipenko, Lipchitz, Giacometti, Marini, Moore). Taiwan: Taipei Museum of Modern Art & Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun.

1993 - "Tatlins Turm: Das Modell des Hirshhorn Museum" in Vladimir Tatlin. Köln & Dusseldorf: DuMont Buchverlag & Städtische Kunsthalle.

1992 - Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers (Rivera, Torres-García, Lam, Matta). Washington DC: SI Press for Hirshhorn Museum.

1988 - Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966. Washington DC & London: SI Press & Lund Humphries.

1983 - Dreams & Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art. Washington DC: SI Press.