Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Ave. at 7th St., SW
Washington, DC
Visit 204 works by 67 foreign-born painters, sculptors, architects and photographers celebrating the fact that in the past century, the U.S. offered sanctuary to the world's immigrants and refugees, and that, in turn, the artist-immigrants made major contributions to our cultural heritage.
Among major works and artists are:
- Battle of Lights, Coney Island by Joseph Stella
- Rush Hour, New York by Max Weber
- The Artist and His Mother by Arshile Gorky
- The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti by Ben Shahn
- Hollywood Torso by Alexander Archipenko
- Documentation, Project for Black Mountain College by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
- Flight and Arrival by Jacques Lipchitz
- New York by Piet Mondrian
- Beginning by Max Beckman
- The Meeting by Richard Lindner
- Land of Bliss and Wonders, California by Hans Hofmann
Works are from HMSG collections and loans from museums and private collections throughout the country.
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