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...geologist partner and the discoverer and developer of his mines, I'm mortified that my good friend and former grubstaker, American Joe Hirshhorn, should be quoted [May 20] as saying of his truly Horatio Algeric career: "The things I did in my life can only be done here." Joe, one of America's greatest unrecognized poets, was simply employing the usual license...
...years of serving himself gargantuan portions, Hirshhorn has gathered some 5,600 works of art. They overflow his 24-room, 24-acre estate atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., are crammed into the closets of his New York apartment, and accumulate in warehouses. His sculptures alone total 1,600, including 17 Rodins, 53 Henry Moores (the largest collection anywhere...
...museum in Regent's Park to house it. Israel was willing to match all offers; so was Zurich, Switzerland. At home, Los Angeles wanted the collection for its new museum; Governor Nelson Rockefeller wanted it for New York State; the Baltimore museum offered to build a separate wing. Hirshhorn himself at various times was rumored to be alternately considering turning his Greenwich home into a museum or planning to build a complete new town in Canada, to be called Hirshhorn, and donating his whole collection to his namesake city...
Belonging to the People. In the end, even the White House became interested. A year ago, Lyndon Johnson invited Hirshhorn to lunch, suggested that he consider giving it to Washington. In August, Lady Bird and Lynda Bird made a two-hour visit to Hirshhorn's Greenwich home and outdoor sculpture garden, returned with ecstatic reports. Finally, it was the call of country that won out. Said Hirshhorn: "This collection doesn't belong to one man; it belongs to the people." The news was too good to be kept quiet for long. Last week word of his decision leaked...
Plans for a building to house Hirshhorn's art must await congressional action, but there is little chance that Congress will turn down such a princely gesture. Most likely spot will be an area adjacent to the National Gallery. Lady Bird is known to be specially taken with the idea of an outdoor sculpture garden that would extend across the three-block width of the Mall, be available to millions of tourists...