{"id":910178,"date":"2026-07-03T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/910178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:35:22","slug":"smithsonian-museum-will-loan-more-than-200-works-to-institutions-in-all-50-states-and-puerto-rico-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/910178\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian museum will loan more than 200 works to institutions in all 50 states and Puerto Rico – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of festivities<\/a> in Washington, DC, marking 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence, the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s foremost museum of modern and contemporary art revealed plans to lend more than 200 works from its collection to institutions in every corner of the country. The initiative by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden<\/a> in partnership with the Arkansas-based Art Bridges Foundation<\/a>, dubbed \u201c50 for 50\u201d, will distribute loans to a partner institution in each of the 50 US states plus Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish everyone could visit us so sharing our collection is a must,\u201d Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s outgoing director<\/a>, said in a statement. \u201c\u201850 for 50\u2019 places important American masterworks from the national collection of modern and contemporary art\u2014which might otherwise sit in storage\u2014into American communities far beyond the National Mall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The more than 200 works that have been requested for loans of three-to-five years each have all been held in the Hirshhorn\u2019s storage, and were selected by partner institutions to address gaps in their own collections or to complement connections in their holdings. The first loans through the initiative are expected to go on view by the end of 2026; the initiative is free for the receiving institutions.<\/p>\n

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Alma Thomas, Earth Sermon\u2014Beauty, Love and Peace, 1971 The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980. \u00a9 2026 Estate of Alma Thomas (Courtesy of the Hart Family) \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Lee Stalsworth<\/p>\n

Museums that will benefit from the Hirshhorn and Art Bridges\u2019 scheme include institutions big and small, in major cities and small towns. In California, the receiving institution will be the Oakland Museum of California<\/a>, while in New York the Queens Museum<\/a> will be hosting Hirshhorn works and, in Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the participating institution is the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in Owensboro (population 60,000); in Rhode Island the Westerly Museum of American Impressionism in Westerly (population 23,000) will receive works from the Hirshhorn; and in Wyoming, the participating institution is the Brinton Museum in Big Horn (population 500).<\/p>\n

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Christian Marclay, Telephones, 1995 (still) Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 2007. \u00a9 Christian Marclay. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Lee Stalsworth<\/p>\n

Around 20% of the participating museums are affiliated with a higher-education institution, from the Blanton Museum of Art<\/a> at the University of Texas in Austin to the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor \u201850 for 50,\u2019 each of these 51 museums chose works that connect with their own collections and audiences\u2014a loan in Tacoma looks nothing like one in Savannah,\u201d Anne Kraybill, chief executive of the Art Bridges Foundation, said in a statement. \u201cGetting that match right is what makes a Hirshhorn loan meaningful to the people who live there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Works from the Hirshhorn\u2019s 13,000-piece collection eligible to be loaned in the coming years through “50 for 50” include paintings by Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Childe Hassam, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe and Alma Thomas, installations by Yoko Ono and Lawrence Weiner, a video by Christian Marclay and more. Which works will go to which institutions will be revealed later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of festivities in Washington, DC, marking 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":910179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,287174,14231,10158,28642,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-910178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden","tag-loans","tag-museums-heritage","tag-smithsonian-institution","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116857020427360700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}