Word: hirshhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon, 59, currently being shown at Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. The new proud possessor is the multimillion-dollar Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, which already owns seven Bacons and cheerfully parted with an estimated $150,000 to buy this...
...eight of the firm's 13 top A.I.A. awards is Gordon Bunshaft, 59, whom Owings calls "the great classicist." Shock-haired and explosive, a bon vivant and art lover, "Bun" set the firm on the high road to quality with Lever House, most recently has turned out the Hirshhorn Gallery for Washington, and the L.B.J. library for Austin, Texas. Notably outspoken, he has been known to tell a client: "Take it all or nothing." In Chicago, Walter Netsch, 48, is dubbed "the professor" by Owings. Research-oriented, he appeals especially to institutions, designed the Air Force Academy. Counterbalancing...
...composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder and Gabo. For the past two years, she has held shows at Chicago's Main Street Galleries, has sold work to Collectors Mayer, Bergman and Connecticut's Joseph Hirshhorn...
ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel Vault New museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn...
Snow in her Hands. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, whose 5,800-work, $35-50 million art collection will soon be installed in its own permanent museum in Washington, admits that he and his wife bought their Greenwich, Conn., estate in 1961 largely because of the setting it would provide for their sculpture. "I could just picture the Henry Moore under the trees," he says, "the David Smith beside the pool, Rodin's Burghers by the front door. In fact, I bought the property in 20 minutes...