Eleven letters from Abram Lerner, Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), Smithsonian Institution, to Sidney S. Lawrence. Letters are personal in nature and were written after Lerner's appointment with the Smithsonian Institution. Individuals mentioned are Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, S. Dillon Ripley, and artists Larry Rivers, Jacob Kainen, Catherine Murphy, Romare Bearden, and Wayne Thiebaud, among others.
Biographical / Historical:
Sidney S. Lawrence (1948- ) was Head of Public Affairs, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Provenance:
Donated 2010 by Sidney S. Lawrence, former Head of Public Affairs, Hirshsorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.
Restrictions:
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The golden door : artist-immigrants of America, 1876-1976 : press coverage, a sampling [of the exhibition at the] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution [May 20 through October 20, 1976]
Daniel Buren, Buster Simpson, Houston Conwill, Matt Mullican / [by] Sidney Lawrence, Ned Rifkin, Phyllis Rosenzweig ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
A collection of 5 interviews conducted by Sidney Lawrence used in research for the Roger Brown exhibition held at the Hirshhorn Museum in 1986. Interviewees include Roger Brown, Phyllis Kind, Dennis Adrian, Roy Yoshida, and Don Baum.
Biographical / Historical:
Sidney Lawrence was a curator; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Roger Brown is a Chicago painter.
Provenance:
Donated 1986 by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Music in stone : great sculpture gardens of the world / text by Sidney Lawrence and George Foy ; introduction by Elisabeth B. MacDougall ; foreword by John Train ; photographs by Nicolas Sapieha