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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Archive
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The Museum's Curatorial Department maintains research files on the entire permanent collection, emphasizing provenance, exhibition histories, published references, and comparative works. Known as the Collection Archive, these records of more than 11,500 objects include photographs, official records, research notes, correspondence, and copies of reference material assembled by the staff.
Highlights: Curatorial records are supplemented by several special collections of papers and miscellaneous manuscript collections, including the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Art Collection Papers, 1948-66; the Samuel Murray Papers, 1869-1941, providing primary material on his teacher, Thomas Eakins; the Elmer L. MacRae Papers, 1875-1955, which are largely devoted to the records of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors circa 1912-15; a small collection of memorabilia pertaining to Louis Eilshemius; and a collection of more than four hundred photographs of artists and members of the art world, donated by Olga Hirshhorn, widow of the museum's founder. Microfilm copies of the MacRae Papers are available for study at the Washington office of the Archives of American Art.