WWP June 2006 Gardens


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World Wide Panorama • Gardens • June 2006		KWH

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These panoramic images were taken the afternoon of June 23, 2006 as part of my participation in the World Wide Panorama event for the 2006 Summer/Winter Solstice. They were all taken between 5:45 pm and 7:05 pm EST. With rain forecast for the entire weekend, this was my window of opportunity to photograph with the sun shining. I began walking at the Rose Garden in front of the Arts & Industries building, circled the building and then crossed the street to the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. The Arts & Industries Building was listed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2006".
Gardens around the Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC • June 23, 2006
Rose Garden in front of the Arts & Industries Building Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Andrew Jackson Downing Urn Garden and the Smithsonian Castle Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Andrew Jackson Downing Urn Garden seating area Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Smithsonian Castle and Enid A. Haupt Garden Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Rena Chashma Fountain near the Sackler Gallery Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Rena Chashma Fountain Center near the Sackler Gallery Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Garden beside the Freer Gallery of Art Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Between the Freer Gallery and the Rena Chashma Fountain Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Enid A. Haupt Memorial Garden Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Arts & Industries Building West Entrance with Baird sculpture Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Flowering plants at West Entrance of the Arts & Industries Building Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Mary Livingston Ripley Garden Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Mary Livingston Ripley Garden Fountain Flash 9 Version iPad Version	The Smithsonian Institution's First Building The Castle

Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC • June 23, 2006
Mark di Suvero sculpture "Are Years What?" 1967 Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Entrance & Henry Moore Sculpture Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Arnaldo Pomodoro sculpture "Sphere No. 6", 1963-65 Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Alexander Calder Mobile Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Gaston Lachaise sculpture "Standing Woman" 1932 Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Henry Moore sculpture "Draped Reclining Figure" 1952-53 Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Henry Moore sculpture "King and Queen " 1952-53 Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Auguste Rodin sculpture "The Burghers of Calais " 1884-89 Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Marino Marini sculpture "Horse and RIder" 1952-53 Flash 9 Version iPad Version
Joan Miro sculpture "Lunar Bird" 1944-46 Flash 9 Version iPad Version	Welcome to the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden First opened in 1974, this garden displays sculptures from Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1960s. Recent works are installed on the plaza around the museum. We invite you to look, relax, study, stroll, make drawings, and take photographs. More than 400,000 people visit the Hirshhorn Museum's garden every year. Please help preserve the sculptures for future generations by not touching them. Sculptures are more fragile than most people realize. Bronze statues are actually hollow casts with thin surfaces that are easily dented or scratched. Other metal sculptures are constructed from several sections joined together with thin welds; these weaken when additional weight is added. All sculptures suffer from urban air pollution. We try to protect our works with a delicate coating of clear wax. But this invisible protectant erodes when touched, even lightly, leaving that part of the sculpture exposed to the elements. (Message on signs in the sculpture garden)
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