Valerie J. Fletcher

Curator of Sculpture

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C. 20560-0350

Current Research Projects

Materials and techniques as part of the creative process for modern sculpture.
Surrealist sculpture (history and aesthetics of).
Display of sculptures, including sculpture gardens.
Individual artists, including Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, David Smith, and many others.
Contemporary Asian artists.

Recent Publications

1999 Shahzia Sikander. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum, 1999, 6 pp.

1998 "Violence, Alienation, and Uncertainty in the Art of Alberto Giacometti" / "Violence, aliénation, et incertitude dans l'art de Giacometti," in Alberto Giacometti. Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1998, pp. 17-29.

1998 A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum. Washington DC and London: Hirshhorn Museum with Thames and Hudson, 1998, 96 pp.

1997 "Alberto Giacometti: A Modern Master," in Alberto Giacometti. Japan: Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, 1997, pp. 11-42.

1996 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art. New York and Washington DC: Harry N. Abrams and Smithsonian Institution, 1996, 41 entries.

1996 "Giacometti's Paintings," in Alberto Giacometti. Vienna: Kunsthalle, pp. 53-59. Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and London: Royal Academy, 1996, 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, 1994, 164 pp., bilingual. Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1995, 130 pp., bilingual.

1993 "Tatlins Turm: Das Modell des Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," in Vladimir Tatlin: Leben, Werk, und Wirkung. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag for Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1993, pp. 76-86.

1992 Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers / Intercambios del Modernismo: Cuatro Precursores Latino-americanos (Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta). Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, 296 pp., bilingual.

1988 Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966. Washington DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press and Lund Humphries, 1988, 252 pp.

1986 Surrealist Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1986, 62 pp.

1983 Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, 202 pp.