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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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  • Press preview invitations

  • Hoffman and Covert exhibitions, press, 1976

  • 14 Canadians exhibition, transparencies

  • RAG, correspondence (3 folders)

  • Lerner speech to National Democratic Women's Club, 1974

  • Dinner guests, great hall, October 2, 1974

  • HMSG, auditorium schedules, 1974

  • HMSG, opening exhibition, 1976

  • Europe in the 70's, photographs

  • David Smith, photos

  • Directions: 1983, press release/handout

  • HMSG opening, Sherman, Texas, Democrat, October 2, 1974

  • WPA, checklist/didactic

  • HMSG Golden Door exhibit, press coverage, foreign and domestic

  • Peter Plagens exhibition, didactic label

  • Kramer and Huxtable reviews, New York Times, October 6, 1974

  • Arshile Gorky exhibition, opening, 1979

  • HMSG, P20 mailing lists, main Smithsonian

  • Box 11

  • Estes opening

  • The Golden Door press release

  • Plans for opening, 1974

  • Hockney filming, 12/19/1984

  • Ibero-American Art, 1981

  • Gillespie exhibition, opening

  • Europe in the 70's exhibition, didactic/handout

  • The Noble Buyer, correspondence, 1977-1978

  • HMSG opening photographs, 1976

  • Grooms archives materials

  • General press requests, 1978

  • Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape, 1979, press release/handout

  • HMSG opening, ceramics in Hirshhorn collection

  • RAG, films, concerts, lectures (3 folders)

  • Els Quatre Gats, photographs

  • Utopia, catalog/checklist

  • Bruce Davidson film lecture, 1976

  • Philip Evergood, opening

  • HMSG, opening of Levine press caricatures,

  • The Noble Buyer, photographs w. reproduction restrictions

  • DiSuvero sculpture, American Scrap Iron and Steel Institute

  • Helicopters Move World-Famous Collection

  • Photographs from the Sato exhibition

  • 1974 FOIA amendments

  • Eakins didactic label

  • HMSG opening, sculptures, Washington Star, August 20, 1974

  • HMSG, Bonnie's film and lecture programs

  • Gorky catalogue

  • Rice exhibition transparencies (includes label copy)

  • Motor Trend magazine, October 1974

  • The Fifties, press release/handout

  • George Grosz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 1978, correspondence

  • Saul Steinberg exhibition, press release

  • The Investigator, HMSG article

  • Gorky: Murals without Walls photographs

  • Film and lecture program, spring 1981

  • Eakins exhibition, photograph captions

  • Saul Steinberg exhibition, dinner

  • Treasures of Mexico, 1978

  • DiSuvero dedication, party etc

  • Snelson press

  • Auditorium/Board Room schedules, October 1976-December 1980

  • Calder correspondence, 1979

  • Raphael Soyer: A Birthday Celebration, 1979-1980

  • Calder press release/handout, 1979

  • The Avant-Garde in Russia (RAG), 1910-1930: New Perspectives, 1980

  • Box 3

  • HMSG, monthly magazines, D.C. area

  • Film and lecture press advance sheets, spring 1978

  • HMSG opening, Washingtonian Magazine, September 1974

  • Press spots, Hirshhorn, 1974-1975

  • The Fifties, index of artists and titles

  • Press release for 14 Canadians exhibition

  • HMSG opening, captions for color transparencies

  • Howard Fox lecture, January 24, 1978

  • Films and lectures, fall 1981

  • Opening information

  • 14 Canadians, photographs/slides

  • Botero correspondence, 1979-1980

  • Josef Albers exhibition, 1980

  • Press preview questionnaire

  • Utopia, opening

  • Alfred Frankenstein lecture on Eakins, press release, 1977

  • Sir Herbert Reed letter, quote on outstanding sculpture collection

  • Arshile Gorky exhibition - Armenians

  • Miro: Selected Paintings, 1980 - Opening

  • German Expressionist, correspondence

  • Schuman music release

  • Directions catalogue

  • Snelson press release/handout

  • HMSG opening, Benjamin Forgey, Washington Star, September 8, 1974

  • HMSG opening, Canadian artists represented in opening exhibition

  • e.e. cummings exhibition, press, 1976

  • Grant Mudford, photographs

  • Hirshhorn opening, background information, 1969-1974

  • Gillespie exhibition, press

  • Metaphor, transparencies

  • Eakins exhibition catalog, 1977

  • Grant Mudford, press

  • The Animal in Art, miscellaneous

  • Hirshhorn's 80th Birthday, 1979 (2 folders)

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