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Publicity Records

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

Creator:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of Public Affairs
Topic
Museum exhibits
Museums -- Public relations
Art, Modern
Art museums
Creator:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of Public Affairs
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Publicity Records
Historical Note
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's (HMSG) first employee devoted explicitly to public affairs was Sidney Lawrence, first hired as a Museum Specialist (publicity) in 1976. In 1978 he became the Public Affairs Officer, Publications and Information Services Department. Lawrence became Public Information Officer, Office of Public Affairs, Department of Administrative and Museum Support Services, serving 1980- . The Office of Public Affairs is responsible for disseminating information on the Hirshhorn's various activities as broadly as possible among the audiences the Museum serves. To this end, it distributes many kinds of publicity - press kits, news releases, advertising spots, and the like. These materials are targeted at a wide variety of audiences, including professional artists and critics, knowledgeable patrons, school children, and casual visitors. The subject matter includes touring exhibits, exhibits from the HMSG's own collections, lectures, films, publications, and community-based activities which the Museum sponsors.
Extent
14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
Date
1969-1985
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Identifier
Record Unit 513
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Clippings
Black-and-white photographs
Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 513, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of Public Affairs, Publicity Records
Genre/Form
Manuscripts
Clippings
Black-and-white photographs
Descriptive Entry
These records include exhibition catalogs, news releases, news clippings and articles from the serious and popular press, mailings, public correspondence seeking more information on artists and art-related topics, invitations to openings and other special events, and many photographs.
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Record ID
ebl-1503511334957-1503511334970-0
Metadata Usage
CC0

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  • Peter Plagens exhibition, photographs

  • e.e. cummings exhibition, press release

  • Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes, 1980

  • Box 4

  • Rivers, opening

  • The Golden Door, press book, 1977

  • Soyer opening, 1982

  • Alfred Leslie catalogues

  • HMSG, D.C. camera clubs, 1972-1973

  • Natkin photographs

  • RAG, acoustiguide

  • DeStijl checklist

  • The Sources of Country Music, exhibition, label copy, 1976

  • HMSG, press release Elie Nadelman show, 1975

  • Benton mural exhibit, press correspondence

  • HMSG opening, Die Welt, October 10, 1974

  • Benton mural exhibit, photographs

  • Grooms correspondence

  • HMSG opening events (2 folders)

  • David Levine catalogue of caricatures, 1976-1977

  • HMSG, printing, 1974

  • R. B. Kitaj exhibit, 1981, press releases handouts

  • Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, Texas, December 1, 1974

  • The Noble Buyer, photographs

  • The Fifties, press

  • HMSG, Central Delivery Service

  • Purchases, checklists

  • Gregory Gillespie exhibition, 1978

  • Soyer paintings/photographs

  • Natkin press release

  • Gillespie lenders

  • Philip Evergood, press

  • Noland catalogue

  • Aga Khan reception, 1980

  • The Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith, 1983 - Based on archival material in the Archives of American Art

  • Directions: 1983, opening

  • HMSG opening, 1974

  • DiSuvero sculpture, press follow-up

  • Metaphor, opening

  • HMSG opening, captions for Paul Richard

  • Sculpture for plaza

  • Hans Hoffman exhibition, photographs

  • Rivers press release/handout

  • Probing the Earth, photographs (2 folders)

  • Metaphor, correspondence

  • The Chac-Mool and Pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, press

  • Directions 1981, press release/handout

  • Charles Eakins Show, press release, 1977

  • Grooms press release/didactic/lecture/reception

  • Bicentennial banners - Photographs

  • HMSG opening, Congressional Record, November 19, 1974

  • The Animal in Art

  • International Sculpture Conference, 1980

  • HMSG opening, Miami Herald, September 29, 1974

  • Noland invitation lists, 1977

  • Botero press clippings

  • Acquisitions: 1974-1977

  • Box 7

  • Dreams and Nightmares; Utopian Visions in Modern Art, 1983, correspondence

  • HMSG, gifts to museum not made by Hirshhorn

  • Olitski exhibition, didactic label

  • HMSG, Medusa Corp. Mirror, summer 1974

  • House Beautiful, November 1974

  • Europe in the 70's, European concerts

  • David Smith: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 1979 - Correspondence

  • Northrop Frye lecture text, 1977

  • HMSG opening, postcards made from collections holdings (2 folders)

  • Hirshhorn remarks at groundbreaking, January 16, 1969

  • The Chac-Mool and Pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, lecture, 1976

  • Press preview, Sato exhibit, 1975

  • The Chac-Mool and Pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, opening

  • Names on completed press list

  • Rice exhibition catalogue

  • USIA film on HMSG, 1978

  • Artist-immigrant film series, 1976

  • Botero catalogue

  • HMSG opening, Washington Star, October 1974

  • e.e. cummings: The Poet as Artist, catalogue, 1976

  • Mahmoud Moukhtar Sculptures, 1981

  • New acquisitions show, 1977

  • DeStijl, press

  • Directions didactic; list of artists

  • Josef Albers postage stamp design, 1980, 2 folders

  • Washington Star-News, October 4, 1974

  • HMSG opening, postcards made from collection holding items

  • 14 Canadians, guest curator's comments

  • HMSG, welcoming the millionth visitor, 1975

  • Rauschenberg lithograph exhibition, 1976

  • Eakins exhibition, press responses

  • Soyer prints, catalogue/checklist

  • HMSG, photos of Alexander Calder stabile

  • Grant Mudford, press release/handout

  • Film and lecture programs, winter 1979

  • Nicholson opening

  • National Businesswoman, HMSG article

  • The Chac-Mool and Pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, photographs

  • HMSG opening, East European artists listed by country

  • Edwin Dickinson, guest lists

  • Joseph Stella: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 1983

  • Els Quatre Gats, opening

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Friedel Dzubas at the Hirshhorn, June 1983. (Image no. SIA2016-000462)
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