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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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  • DiSuvero sculpture, slipcase handout

  • Olitski exhibition, photographs

  • HMSG opening, Washington Post editorial, September 30, 1974

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Correspondence

  • Art Deco Posters from the Library of Congress, 1980

  • R. B. Kitaj, correspondence

  • Three Mexican Masters, opening

  • Alfred Leslie exhibition, transparencies, 1976

  • Film and lecture series, press contacts

  • Grant Mudford, catalogue

  • RAG, transparencies

  • HMSG, Circle Theatre mailing list, 1974

  • WPA, opening

  • KET filing, 1980

  • The Animal in Art, photographs

  • Twentieth Century Canadian Culture: A Symposium, 1977

  • Probing the Earth, transparencies

  • Exhibition schedule, 1979

  • Hirshhorn documentary, McKinney, 1981

  • David Smith, opening

  • Rivers reception

  • HMSG, information memos and office procedures, 1974

  • HMSG, press kit for opening, 1974

  • Variations on a Musical Theme: Selections from the Museum's Collections

  • 14 Canadians exhibition, catalogue

  • HMSG sculpture garden tonnage, 1974

  • Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture: Selection from the Museum Collection, 1983, photos

  • The Animal in Art, invitation lists

  • The Noble Buyer, color negatives

  • 1974 -1975 Smithsonian postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows

  • Alfred V. Frankenstein lecture, 1977

  • Olitski exhibition press clippings

  • Probing the Earth, lectures and films

  • Michael Blackwood lecture, May 4, 1978

  • Soyer press release/handout

  • The Animal in Art, catalogue

  • Noland photographs

  • Updated list of sculpture in garden and on plaza

  • Soyer correspondence

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Press release/handout

  • Gorky press release/handout

  • Film/lecture series, winter 1982

  • Bremerton, Washington, Sun, October 17, 1974

  • Moukhtar, publicity

  • Yaacov Agam lecture, 1977

  • Documentary film on the Thomas Hart Benton mural

  • Calder lectures, seminars etc 1979

  • HMSG opening, Paul Richard, Washington Post, September 29, 1974

  • HMSG opening, Washington Post, letters to the editor, 1974

  • Revised fact sheet, August 2, 1974

  • HMSG opening, internal memoranda, January-May 1975

  • Letter to explain helicopter flights, 1974

  • Moukhtar, opening

  • HMSG opening, photographs of building model

  • Banners

  • Friedel Dzubas, correspondence

  • Opening preview of Nadelman exhibition

  • The Animal in Art, invitations

  • Inaugural handout/label copy

  • Alfred Leslie exhibition, 1976

  • Olitski advance fact sheet

  • German Expressionist, reception

  • Painting in New York: 1950-1960 exhibition

  • Five Distinguished Alumni: The WPA Federal Art Project, 1982, press

  • New Yorker, October 21, 1974

  • Press room volunteers, HMSG opening, October 1974

  • Andre Fortier lecture, 1977

  • Saul Steinberg exhibition, press release/handout

  • HMSG opening, Watergate Hotel review, autumn 1974

  • Natkin correspondence

  • HMSG opening employee invitation lists

  • Box 8

  • Doris Chase films, April 1977

  • Princess Benedikte, Denmark, 1982

  • HMSG, bicentennial banners press

  • Twentieth Century Consort

  • The Animal in Art, opening, HMSG and National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

  • Peter Plagens exhibition, 1976

  • David Hockney press release/handout, 1979

  • Hockney opening, 1979

  • Three Mexican Masters, correspondence

  • Samuel Murray photographs

  • Early American Antiques, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 1974

  • Noland Corcoran checklist

  • David Smith, transparencies

  • Soyer since 60, catalogue/checklist

  • Grooms slides/transparencies

  • Jan van der Marck lecture, January 18, 1977

  • President Mitterand, France, 1982

  • WPA, press

  • Els Quatre Gats, press

  • HMSG, photographic negatives of some art used in The Golden Door

  • Three Mexican Masters, photographs

  • Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution

  • HMSG opening, special events forms, 1974

  • HMSG, Levine lecture, photos and contact sheets

  • Spanish press names

  • Queen's visit, 4/19/1982

  • HMSG, photos of opening, contact sheets

  • HMSG opening, Israeli artists in the exhibition

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