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Minutes of the Board of Trustees Meeting
of the
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
May 13, 1972

The Third meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was held at the Hirshhorn estate in Greenwich, Connecticut on Saturday, May 13, 1972, at 2:45 p.m.

[[underlined]]Present[[/underlined]]

Dr. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman presiding
Mr. H. Harvard Arnason
Mr. Leigh Block
Mr. George Heard Hamilton
Miss Elisabeth Houghton
Mr. Taft Schreiber
Mr. Hal B. Wallis

Mr. Joseph Hirshhorn, Mr. James Bradley, Mr. Abram Lerner, and Mr. Charles Blitzer also attended.

The Chairman opened the meeting by expressing the Board's gratitude for Mr. Hirshhorn's latest great gift to the museum and to the Nation. Mr. Hirshhorn responded, "I did it with love."

[[underlined]]MINUTES OF DECEMBER 13, 1972 MEETING[[/underlined]]

The Chairman stated that the minutes of the December 13, 1971 meeting had been circulated to each Trustee. A motion for approval was offered and it was

VOTED that the minutes of the December 13, 1971 meeting are approved.

[[underlined]]REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR[[/underlined]]

Mr. Lerner showed slides of the building construction and of a model of its gallery space with installations.