Just published, "Little Man in a Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H.Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector" is the remarkable story of Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States. His sculpture and art collection is now housed on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in a Smithsonian Museum which bears his name: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Written by his daughter Gene Hirshhorn LePere, it is a rags-to-riches story of an immigrant Jewish boy who arrived in the United States from Latvia in 1907 and through oversized ambition, energy and determination accumulated a multi-million-dollar collection of contemporary art. The hardbound book is published by Vantage Press, Inc., 419 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016. They can be contacted at 1-800-882-3273. Vantage retails at $26.95, or from Amazon.com at $17.79. The ISBN is: 978-0-533-16079-2. Sandra and Donald Hirschhorn Boca Raton, FL --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
