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Hirshhorn Art Sculpture Collection at Smithsonian Honors Immigrant
1 .., Ay JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
WASHINGTON , — The
Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, housing
Joseph H. Hirshhorn's col-
lection of sculpture and paint-
ing of the past 125 years, is
fir?ally ready to be shown as
America's permanent testi-
( monial to the Latvian Jewish
emigrant whose widowed
mother made purses in, a
Brooklyn factory six days a
week to feed her family of
'13 children.
_ This new public museum,
a part, of the Smithsonian In-
stitution on the mall between
the Capitol and White House,
is the result of the magnifi-
cent gift to the nation of
some 4,000 paintings and
2,000 sculptures that Hirsh-
horn, now 75, assembled over
40 years while he was amas-
sing
i a fortune in Wall Street
and from uranium mines in
Canada. The appraised value
of the works is more than
$100,000,000.
Hirshhorn's gift, which
leaves him and his wife with
only a few items in their own
home in Greenwich, Conn.,
traces art in every medium
by European and American
masters. The inaugural . ex-
hibit which opens with a
series of receptions during
the first week in October and
will continue through Sept.
15, 1975, consists of 800 to
900 works in all media.
' Sampling of the exhibit re-
veals such outstanding works
as Henry Moore's "King and-
Queen," Pablo Picasso's
"Baby Carriage," Auguste
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Rodin's "Burghers of Cal-
ais," Henry Matisse's "Backs
I-IV, "Thomas Eakins' por-
trait of his wife, Sir Jacob
Epstein's portrait of Joseph
Conrad in the last year of
that writer's life; Elie Nadel-
man's portrait bust of the
French poet Baudelaire, and
Ben Shahn's "Supreme Court
of California: Mooney Ser-
ies," one of 16 Shahn had
painted to dramatize the
celebrated Toth Mooney case
in San Francisco.
To commemorate the mus-
eum's opening, William Schu-
man, one of America's finest
composers, has written "Pre-
lude for a Great Occassion."
In addition, 'Harry N. Abra-
hams, Inc., of New York, has
published an inaugural book
of 768 pages with an intro-
duction by the museum's dir-
ector, Abraham Lerner, an
artist in his own right who
first met Hirshhorn 29 years
ago in a New York art gal-
lery where he was then em-
ployed.
The museum, a circular
four-floor structure with an
inner open core that some
critics have likened to a
-bagel, was created by an act
of Congress on Nov. 7, 1966,
at President Lyndon B. John-
son's request after he had ac-
cepted Hirshhorn's offer. The
architect was Gordon Bun-
shaft of New York, who also
designed the Johnson Lib-
rary at the University of
Texas and the Beinecke Rare
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ment of that commitment ex-
cept that it's seven times
over."
Hirshhorn was born in
Mitau, Latvia in 1899, the
12th of his parents' 13 chil-
dren. When his father died,
his mother brought the entire
family to New York in 1905,
settling in Brooklyn's Will-
iamsburg section.
Hirshhorn helped his fam-
ily by selling newspapers.
When he was 14 he started in
Wall Street as an office boy.
Three years later, in 1916,
when he was only 17, he
plunged his savings of $225
into establishing his own
brokerage. In the late 1940's
he entered Canadian uran-
ium mining. While he sold
most of his uranium interests
in 1960, he still is chairman
of the Callahan Mining Corp.
in Canada.
A chance meeting at the
ACA gallery in New York led
to -the long and fruitful Hirsh-
horn-Lerner association. Ler-
ner, who was born in 1913 in
New York, had worked as a
mural artist in the Federal
Arts Project after being
graduated from New York
University and had served
as an art instructor at
Brooklyn College when he
joined the gallery as an em-
ploye in 1945.
Not long afterwards, a
short, stocky, vigorous man
hurried into the gallery,
quickly examined some
paintings and bought four.
Flabbergasted, Lerner tele-
phoned the gallery's director
that "an _ apparition" had
just purchased four items at
one t i m e. The director
laughed. "Don't worry," he
t o 1 d Lerner. "That was
Hirshhorn: he is the most
dynamic collector in New
York."
Hirshhorn and Lerner met
frequently and went together
to gallery exhibits. "He nev-
er bought anything that he
did not respond to," Lerner
has recalled. In 1956, Lerner
became Hirshhorn's curator
of the collection that was
stored in warehouses in New
York and in his office on
Broadway. Eleven year s
later, after Congress had
voted to build the museum,
President Johnson selected
Lerner as its curator.
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by the American Friends of
the Alliance Israelite Univer-
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The opening of the institute
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Hirshhorn had difficulty in
deciding where his collection
should go. Canada, which he
greatly admires, was a
prime choice. Israel's new
museum in Jerusalem invit-
ed it. England offered to
build a new museum for it
in London's Regents Park.
Invitations came also from
the State University of New
York, Beverly Hills, Balti-
more and Zurich. President
Johnson personally persuad-
ed Hirshhorn to give it to
the Smithsonian.
From its start, the project
has been plagued by rede-
signing and scaling down of
the structure, strikes, law-
suits over unexpected costs,
bidding' delays. Various Con-
gressmen attacked it as a
monument to one man's ego
although many American
museums are named after
their principal benefactors in-
cluding the Smithsonian it-
self. Congress appropriated
$15,300,00 to. build the com-
plex but in 1970 cost over-
runs increased charges by
$1,000,000. In his original gift,
Hirshhorn had promised ad-
ditional art worth $1,000,000.
Hirshhorn made up the
deficit with cash on his or-
iginal promise and then-
pledged another $1,000,000 in
art. About the latter $1,000,-
000, Charles Blitzer, assistant
secretary for art and history
at the -Smithsonian, said that
it was "in essence a fulfill-
It may be true that haste
makes- waste, but some find
it out only by costly experi-
ence.
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