Revolutions: Art From The Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents “Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960,” a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy, and ever-increasing mechanization. “Revolutions” captures shifting cultural landscapes through the largely chronological presentation. In its first rotation, the installation presents 208 artworks in the museum’s permanent collection by 117 artists—including Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Lee Krasner, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock—made during 100 turbulent and energetic years.
The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, such as Torkwase Dyson, Rashid Johnson, Annette Lemieux, Dyani White Hawk and Flora Yukhnovich, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches that arose during these 100 years remain critical. Organized by Hirshhorn Associate Curator Marina Isgro and Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson, “Revolutions” will fill the Museum’s second-floor outer-circle galleries from March 22, 2024, to April 20, 2025.
“Revolutions” spotlights the rush of art historical movements and genres that characterized the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction, notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind, not just the eye. This breadth was evident in Joseph Hirshhorn’s founding gifts to the Museum. An industrialist, collector, and philanthropist, Hirshhorn donated nearly 6,000 works—including a significant number of sculptures—in anticipation of the Museum’s opening on October 4, 1974, and 6,400 more upon his death in 1981. Together these gifts constitute one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. Today, the Hirshhorn collection comprises more than 13,130 artworks.
To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents “Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960,” a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy, and ever-increasing mechanization. “Revolutions” captures shifting cultural landscapes through the largely chronological presentation. In its first rotation, the installation presents 208 artworks in the museum’s permanent collection by 117 artists—including Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Lee Krasner, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock—made during 100 turbulent and energetic years.
The exhibition includes contemporary work by 19 artists, such as Torkwase Dyson, Rashid Johnson, Annette Lemieux, Dyani White Hawk and Flora Yukhnovich, whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas and approaches that arose during these 100 years remain critical. Organized by Hirshhorn Associate Curator Marina Isgro and Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson, “Revolutions” will fill the Museum’s second-floor outer-circle galleries from March 22, 2024, to April 20, 2025.
“Revolutions” spotlights the rush of art historical movements and genres that characterized the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction, notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind, not just the eye. This breadth was evident in Joseph Hirshhorn’s founding gifts to the Museum. An industrialist, collector, and philanthropist, Hirshhorn donated nearly 6,000 works—including a significant number of sculptures—in anticipation of the Museum’s opening on October 4, 1974, and 6,400 more upon his death in 1981. Together these gifts constitute one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. Today, the Hirshhorn collection comprises more than 13,130 artworks.
Artists on show
- Abraham Cruzvillegas
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Alexander Archipenko
- Alexander Calder
- Alexandra Aleksandrovna Exster
- Alice Neel
- Aliza Nisenbaum
- Alma Woodsey Thomas
- Amoako Boafo
- André Masson
- Ann Pibal
- Annette Lemieux
- Anni Albers
- Arshile Gorky
- Arthur Dove
- Auguste Herbin
- Auguste Rodin
- Barbara Kasten
- Barnett Newman
- Ben Shahn
- Berenice Abbott
- Burgoyne Diller
- Carlotta Corpron
- Castera Bazile
- Catherine Opie
- Charles Biederman
- Childe Hassam
- Clyfford Still
- Constantin Brancusi
- Cy Twombly
- David Alekhuogie
- Dawoud Bey
- Dorothy Dehner
- Dyani White Hawk
- Édouard Vuillard
- Edward Hopper
- Emily Carr
- Fernand Léger
- Flora Yukhnovich
- Francis Bacon
- Franz Kline
- Gabriele Münter
- George Bellows
- George Grosz
- Giacomo Balla
- Gino Severini
- Grace Hartigan
- Grandma Moses
- Hans Hofmann
- Hector Hyppolite
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Henri Matisse
- Henry Moore
- Henry Moore of Hull
- Horace Pippin
- Jackson Pollock
- Jacob Lawrence
- Janet Sobel
- Jasper Johns
- Jean Arp
- Jean Dubuffet
- Joan Brown
- Joan Brown
- Joan Miró
- Joan Mitchell
- Joaquín Torres García
- John Singer Sargent
- Josef Albers
- Joseph Cornell
- Joseph Stella
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Larry Rivers
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Lee Krasner
- Leon Polk Smith
- Loie Hollowell
- Man Ray
- Marcel Duchamp
- Mark Rothko
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Max Ernst
- Milton Avery
- Morris Louis
- Nadia Léger
- Nathaniel Mary Quinn
- Natsuyuki Nakanishi
- Nicolas Party
- Oscar Bluemner
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Pfeiffer
- Pavel Tchelitchew
- Piet Mondrian
- Ralston Crawford
- Rashid Johnson
- Reginald Marsh
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Rick Lowe
- Rigaud Benoit
- Robert Delaunay
- Robert Henri
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Rufino Tamayo
- Sally Mann
- Sonia Delaunay
- Stanton MacDonald-Wright
- Stuart Davis
- Thomas Eakins
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Torkwase Dyson
- Tsuruko Yamazaki
- Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossiné
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Wifredo Lam
- Willem de Kooning
- William Merritt Chase
- Winslow Homer
- Yun Gee
- Zao Wou-Ki
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