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Loans from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of American History totaled just fewer than 50 pieces installed in the first family's private quarters, as well as in the east and west wings of the White House and in areas visited by the public.

The acrylic on canvas, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, shows a jumble of geometric shapes in bright reds, blues and greens.

The acrylic on canvas, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, shows a jumble of geometric shapes in bright reds, blues and greens.

``That lineage winds up on the West Coast,'' said ``Visual Music'' co-curator Kerry Brougher, chief curator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.

Temporary exhibitions feature a wide range of artistic media, and visitors won't want to miss the museum's sculpture garden, which includes a bronze torso by Auguste Rodin on loan from the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

George Dondero, chairman of the House Committee on Public Buildings, delivered a memorable speech declaring that modernism was a "Communist conspiracy" that threatened to deprave American museums, and held up approval of modernist works like the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that line the Mall today.

Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Ave.