Hirshhorn Museum

Celebrating 50 years of contemporary art at the Hirshhorn, this beautifully illustrated handbook highlights its top-notch collection and artists from Andy Warhol to Yayoi Kusama

In the 50 years since its opening, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s collection has grown to include some of the most cutting-edge modern and contemporary artwork in the world. The more than 350 vibrant full-color illustrations in Hirshhorn Museum: The Art Handbook highlight the most captivating paintings, video and performance works, collages, sculptures, photographs, and mixed-media pieces in the museum’s permanent collection. The book cover’s rainbow holographic foil and die-cuts make for a sleek and distinctive design that’s perfect for any art lover’s collection.

This book presents notable work within 9 thematically arranged sections such as “Realism in the Americas” and “Abstract Futures.” Notable artwork includes: 

• Edward Hopper’s painting Eleven A.M (1926)
• Yayoi Kusama’s immersive and polka-dotted Infinity Mirror Rooms
• Jacob Lawrence’s painting Watchmaker (1946)
• Ai Weiwei’s exhibition Trace (2014) that features portraits of international political dissidents made from LEGO bricks

• Georgia O’Keeffe’s groundbreaking landscape painting Black Hills with Cedar (1941)

• Shirin Neshat’s two-channel video Fervor (2000), which examines gender in an allegorical Iran

• Pablo Picasso’s seminal painting Woman in a Hat (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (1934)

Illustrations are accompanied by introductory text, captions, artist quotations, definitions of art movements and styles, and fun facts. Featuring renowned artists such as Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Joan Mitchell, Alexander Calder, and more, Hirshhorn Museum: The Art Handbook illustrates what makes the museum’s collection unparalleled.

FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: Francis Bacon, Mark Bradford, Constantin Brancusi, Willem de Kooning, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Irwin, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Joseph Stella, and more.