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...Minutes of Thought. The rise of Joseph Hirshhorn, from those bleak Brooklyn years to his start as a 17-year-old broker on the New York Curb Exchange and finally to the fortune he has made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember...
Between business deals, often carried out on two telephones at once, Hirshhorn pores over art books, uses every spare minute to dart in and out of galleries. Though his store of knowledge about art is awesome, he seems to operate almost entirely by instinct. "There are," he says, "two types of art-good and bad. If you see a piece that you really like, it hits you in the brain, and in my case, I gotta buy it." Occasionally, Collector Hirshhorn may take a whole day, or even two, to make up his mind about a purchase. More often, "when...
Every Christmas, year after year, a glossy calendar would arrive from the life insurance company, and every year it would be almost the only spot of color in the tiny Brooklyn tenement apartment. To six of the seven kids of the immigrant Hirshhorn family living in the apartment at the time, it was just something that told the date; but to the second youngest child, it was a good deal more. When the calendar had served its purpose, he would cut out reproductions of sugary landscapes and tearful Landseer dogs and pin them on the wall beside...
...knows-not even the 63-year-old Joe Hirshhorn himself-exactly how big the collection is, but there are around 1,000 pieces of sculpture and close to 3,000 paintings. The treasures jam Hirshhorn's offices in Manhattan and Toronto, are scattered through his Park Avenue apartment and Cap d'Antibes villa, decorate the gardens and even the bathroom walls of his house atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., and flow over into a warehouse in Manhattan. The U.S. public has so far seen the collection only in bits and pieces, but this fall it will...
...asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...