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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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  • Three Mexican Masters, press release/handout

  • HMSG opening, Time, September 30, 1974

  • Art from India, 1982

  • Drawings, 1974-1984, opening

  • Program attendance report

  • Hockney correspondence, 1979

  • German Expressionist, release/handout

  • Film and lecture series, fall 1978

  • Gorky negatives/photographs

  • HMSG, LBJ Library loan exhibition, 1974-1975

  • Metaphor, press

  • HMSG opening, internal memoranda, July-December 1974

  • Associates' Noland reception

  • Washington Star-News, December 29, 1974

  • Red Grooms from the Museum's Collection, 1982 - Grooms photos

  • HMSG, female guard, 1974

  • Daily Free Press, Elko, Nevada, November 5, 1974

  • Winter film and lecture program, 1980

  • Grosz catalogue

  • Directions press release/handout

  • 4th annual Hirshhorn holiday, December 1979 (2 folders)

  • Hirshhorn opening, public service spots

  • Purchases, reception

  • Artists from Belgium, 1980

  • European Abstractionists at the Hirshhorn Museum, 1982

  • HMSG opening, efforts to promote presence of non-American artists' work in collection

  • DeStijl: Visions of Utopia, 1917-1931, 1982, transparencies

  • Noland exhibition handout

  • Victory over the Sun reception, 1980

  • WPA, transparencies

  • DeStijl exhibition paper products

  • Press information from other museums

  • HMSG, photographs of Elie Nadelman statuary

  • Alfred Leslie Exhibition, photographs

  • Film and lecture pres coverage, 1978

  • Peter Plagens exhibition, press

  • R. B. Kitaj, catalogue (2 folders)

  • Andre Masson: Prints from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 1981; includes photographs

  • Alexandra Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Designs, 1980

  • The Noble Buyer, follow-up press release, 1978

  • The Ephemeral is Eternal, preview, 1982

  • Fernando Botero, opening, 1979

  • Preliminary fact sheet on gallery, 1974

  • Henry Moore, press release/handout

  • Sato exhibit opening, 1975

  • Docent tours

  • Soyer prints, photographs/transparencies

  • DeStijl press release/handout

  • College Art Association, 1979

  • Ivan Karp lecture, May 18, 1978

  • Kenneth Snelson exhibition, 1981, opening

  • Box 1

  • Box 2

  • Nicholson photos/negatives

  • HMSG, Claes Oldenburg, background information

  • HMSG, guest list for Anne Coffin lectures, 1975

  • Brochure questionnaire

  • Hans Hoffman exhibition, opening

  • Press preview, HMSG opening, acceptances, 1974 (2 folders)

  • Noland miscellaneous

  • Gillespie exhibition, press book

  • Miscellaneous correspondence, 1977-1978

  • Utopia, photos

  • Miranda McClintic lecture, 1977

  • Washington Post, November 5, 1974

  • HMSG, women artists at the Hirshhorn

  • Philip Evergood, press release/handout

  • Hirshhorn Board of Trustees, 1974

  • HMSG opening, correspondence, June-October 1974

  • David Smith: Steel into Sculpture, 1983, film

  • Guest list, October 1 gallery opening

  • Friedel Dzubas, slides

  • Rice exhibition didactic label

  • Film and lecture series, up to fall 1977

  • HMSG, background articles, 1972-1975

  • Alfred Leslie exhibition, miscellaneous correspondence

  • HMSG, Smithsonian photo policies, 1974

  • Information on the Country Music Foundation

  • Metaphor, photos

  • Nadelman exhibition opening, photos and contact sheets

  • Snelson photographs

  • Einstein symposium, 1980

  • Modern Art from Pakistan

  • The Fifties, story

  • Benton exhibit RSVP's, 1976

  • Moukhtar, photographs

  • HMSG, biographical information on Abram Lerner

  • Nicholson press release/handout

  • Hirshhorn art donation, 1972

  • Opening press releases, 1974

  • Hirshhorn plaque unveiled, 1976

  • Homage to Joan Prats exhibition, 1976

  • The Group of Seven: Canadian Landscape Painters

  • VIP evening guests, October 1, 1974

  • The Golden Door, 1976-1977, press response (2 folders)

  • Gorky correspondence

  • HMSG, 25 Selected Works

  • Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900, 1978

  • The Fifties, catalogues

  • Rice exhibition, pres correspondence

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