Press Images: Masterworks in Hirshhorn Collection

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Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Lucian Freud, Nude with Leg Up (Leigh Bowery), 1992; Ron Mueck, Untitled (Big Man), 2000.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Paul Gauguin, Hina with Two Attendants, 1892; Wifredo Lam, Siren of the Niger, 1950.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Willem de Kooning, Two Standing Women, 1963; Willem de Kooning, Two Figures, 1964; Alberto Giacometti, Bust of Diego, 1954; Willem de Kooning, Untitled, 1966; Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1953; Alberto Giacometti, Bust of Diego, 1957; Willem de Kooning, Woman/Verso: Untitled, 1948; Alberto Giacometti, Bust of Diego, c. 1954–55.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1964; Alberto Giacometti, Bust of Diego on a Stele II, 1958; Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1964; Alberto Giacometti, The Nose, 1947, revised 1949, cast c. 1960–65; Alberto Giacometti, Dog, 1951, cast 1957.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Peter Doig, Spearfishing, 2013; Sérgio Camargo, Column, 1967-68; Clyfford Still, 1962-D, 1962; Jean-Paul Riopelle, Large Triptych, 1964.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Eduardo Basualdo, The End of Ending, 2012.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Mario Merz, From Continent to Continent, 1985; Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100), 1960.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Joan Mitchell, Field for Skyes, 1973; Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Yellow Bed, Two Parts), 1991; Mona Hatoum, Entrails Carpet, 1995; Louise Bourgeois, Legs, 1986, cast 2008.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Installation view of Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016. Left to right: Ed Ruscha, The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965-68; Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 1980; Jean Dubuffet, The Mournful One, 1959; Alexander Calder, Fish, 1944; George Rickey, Maquette for “Space Churn,” by 1964; Jean Dubuffet, Oberon, 1960; Jean Dubuffet, Limbour as a Crustacean, 1946.
Photo: Cathy Carver
Ron Mueck
Untitled (Big Man), 2000
Pigmented polyester resin on fiberglass
80 1/4 x 47 1/2 x 80 1/2 in. (203.8 x 120.7 x 204.5 cm)
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and in Honor of Robert Lehrman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1997–2004, for his extraordinary leadership and unstinting service to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Photo: Cathy Carver
Ana Mendieta
Corazón de Roca con Sangre (Rock Heart with Blood), 1975
8mm color film transferred to DVD
Variable projection size (max. 5′ x 5′); running time: 00:03:30
Gift of the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection and an Anonymous Donor, 2005
Gerhard Richter
Window, 1968
Oil paint on canvas
78 3/4 x 158 in. (200 x 401.3 cm)
Holenia Purchase Fund, in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 2003
Photo: Cathy Carver
Mario Merz
From Continent to Continent, 1985
Steel, glass, neon, clay, and metal cables
66 x 135 x 135 in. (167.6 x 342.9 x 342.9 cm)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1990
Photo: Cathy Carver
Joan Miró
Woman before an Eclipse with Her Hair Disheveled by the Wind, 1967
Oil paint on canvas
95 3/4 X 76 5/8 IN. (243.2 X 194.6 CM.)
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided under the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisitions Program, 1980
Photo: Less Stalsworth
Francis Bacon
Study for “Portrait of Van Gogh” V, 1957
Oil paint and sand on canvas
78 1/8 x 54 1/8 in. (198.7 x 137.5 cm)
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Photo: Cathy Carver
Constantin Brancusi
Sleeping Muse I, 1909-1910
Marble
6 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (17.2 x 27.6 x 21.2 cm) on artist’s base: 5 1/8 x 14 1/2 x 11 3/8 in. (13.1 x 36.7 x 28.9 cm)
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Photo: Cathy Carver
Willem de Kooning
Two Women in the Country, 1954
Oil paint, enamel, and charcoal on canvas
46 1/8 x 40 3/4 in. (117.1 x 103.5 cm)
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Photo: Less Stalsworth
Alberto Giacometti
The Nose, 1947, revised 1949, cast c. 1960–65
Bronze, iron, and twine
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Photo: Cathy Carver
Ed Ruscha
The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965–68
Oil paint on canvas
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Photo: Cathy Carver
Edward Hopper
Eleven A.M., 1926
Oil paint on canvas
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Photo: Cathy Carver
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Large Triptych, 1964
Oil paint on canvas
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Photo: Cathy Carver