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[[underlined]]Loans Made by the Museum[[/underlined]]

Although we have established a limitation on loan requests, the requests still arrive, and certain ones cannot be refused.  From January 1 to October of this year, we agreed to lend seventy-nine paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs to twenty-nine museums, galleries and institutions in the United States and abroad.  Some of these bear mentioning, such as the loan of our Frances Bacon [[underlined]]Triptych[[/underlined]] to the artist's retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris and the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf; our Agam [[underlined]]Double Metamorphosis[[/underlined]] to his current retrospective at the National Center of Contemporary Art in Paris; our Frank Stella [[underlined]]Darabjerd III[[/underlined]] to the inaugural exhibition of the Art Museum of South Texas at Corpus Christi; our larger Miro [[underlined]]Circus Horse[[/underlined]] currently on display, and our Mondrian, to the Guggenheim Museum; our Barnett Newman [[underlined]]Covenant[[/underlined]] to the artist's retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Grand Palais; seven Matisse sculptures to the Museum of Modern Art.  And in the spirit of geographical fraternity we are happy to lend various items to the National Gallery of Art, the National Collection of Fine Arts, the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery and the Washington Museum of African Art.

[[underlined]]Curatorial Activity[[/underlined]]

During this same period, January to October 1972, we answered one hundred and twenty requests from scholars, students, publishers and museum personnel for information on artists and for works in the Museum Collections.  Our staff also processed eighty-three requests from scholars, students, institutions and publishers for photographs and for permission to reproduce works.  Seventy scholars, artists and museum officials visited the Hirshhorn Museum office and warehouse in New York for research purposes.  Thirty-five hundred people attended tours of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden in Greenwich for the benefit of educational, cultural and philanthropic organizations.

Works from the Museum Collections were used on TV Educational Programs and some of the year's most significant art publications contained reproductions of works in the collections and information provided by our staff.  A recent Italian publication on De Kooning includes seven color plates and seven black and white reproductions of our paintings; a book on the photography of Thomas Eakins contains seventy-seven of our Eakins photographs; a publication on American Painting and Sculpture in the twentieth century includes twenty-one items; one of our paintings illustrates the cover jacket of a recent book on the American painter Raphael Soyer, etc.