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Publicity Records

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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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  • Els Quatre Gats, correspondence

  • German Expressionist, photos

  • Canadian culture symposium, 1977

  • Mailing lists and public affairs procedures memos, 1974

  • HMSG, recipes for food served at press briefing, 1974

  • HMSG, publicity schedule, 1974

  • International Year of the Child, 1979

  • The Animal in Art exhibition, press release, 1978

  • The 'Eight' and the Independent Tradition in American Art, 1983

  • Gillespie exhibition, photographs

  • Winter film and lecture program, 1978

  • Planning for Nadelman and Sato events, 1975

  • Gordon Bunshaft interview, Washington Star-News, October 1974

  • Press book

  • Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture, correspondence

  • Utopia related events

  • Sentinels of Silence, film, 1976

  • Europe in the 70's, invitation lists

  • Film/lecture series, spring 1982

  • Noland opening, 1977

  • HMSG, schedule of events and story possibilities, opening, 1974

  • Press mailing list questionnaire

  • Speech by Abram Lerner at opening, October 1, 1974

  • Grant Mudford, opening, 1979

  • Philip Evergood, photos

  • HMSG opening, Antiques, September 1974

  • Directions 1981, Publicity

  • Eakins symposium lectures

  • Kreeger house tour

  • Box 14

  • Botero photos

  • Friedlander photographs

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Lenders' information

  • David Smith, dinner

  • David Smith, press

  • Black press mailing lists

  • Press releases, exhibition of David Levine caricatures, 1976

  • DiSuvero sculpture, background materials

  • Hirshhorn Museum newsletter, 1973-1974

  • Noland press release

  • Utopia, reception

  • Alfred H. Maurer: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection exhibition, 1979

  • Snelson correspondence

  • Joseph Stella, photographs

  • Dzubas opening

  • New York Post, January 15, 1975

  • Henry Moore: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, checklist

  • Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of his Art, 1978, correspondence

  • Hirshhorn unveils 800 works

  • Utopia transparencies

  • Second opening party, HMSG, Washington Star, October 3, 1974

  • HMSG opening, captions for art works with religious terms

  • Three Mexican Masters, press

  • Centerbeam laser art exhibition, June 1978

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Catalogue

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Press coverage

  • Anne Rorimer lecture, January 12, 1978

  • Box 9

  • Box 5

  • Review copies of Abrams Hirshhorn book

  • The 'Eight,' opening

  • RAG, opening

  • Calder for Kids, 1979

  • Joseph Hirshhorn speech, October 1, 1974

  • John Covert exhibition, photographs and negatives

  • Exhibition schedule, 1981-1982

  • Estes, press

  • Homage to Joseph Albers, 1976

  • The Fifties, photographs, 2 folders

  • WPA, lecture Lerner/Brown

  • The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York, 1980 - Opening

  • DeStijl TV spot

  • Docent names

  • Saul Steinberg exhibition, opening, 1978

  • RAG, catalogue

  • Purchases, press

  • Grosz press

  • Eakins opening reception, 1977

  • James Wines lecture, January 26, 1978

  • HMSG, ducks in Hirshhorn fountain, May 1975

  • 1978 exhibition schedule

  • Gillespie exhibition, miscellaneous correspondence

  • HMSG opening, Newsweek, October 7, 1974

  • Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects

  • Calder press

  • 1979 press requests

  • HMSG opening, 1976

  • Directions exhibition, 1979

  • Assorted mailing lists

  • Bicentennial banners to Grace Hirshhorn Museum Plaza

  • Directions correspondence, 1978

  • Probing the Earth, guests and invitations

  • Directions 1983, press

  • Eakins lecture and dinner lists

  • DeStijl correspondence (2 folders)

  • Oscar Bluemner: Selections from HMSG, 1979-1980

  • HMSG, school group schedules, 1974-1975

  • HMSG, guest list for Daniel Robbins lecture

  • Museum shop preview

  • Informational advisory, 1977-1978

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