Andrew Hudson: Let me tell you something else Esther told me in East Hampton. Funny story about Hirshhorn, Mr. Hirshhorn. She said that people who were struggling financially had to sell their paintings to Hirshhorn at lower prices when he asked for lower prices, but Adolph didn’t have to do that. So Hirshhorn would come and say, 'How much is that painting?' And Adolph would quote a figure and Hirshhorn would say, 'What’s that, a telephone number?' But eventually would have to pay what Adolph was asking, because Adolph did not budge, which was very good for Adolph I think, heh!
Sanford Hirsch: It was and Hirshhorn had—has a number of really top paintings.
Andrew Hudson: Oh absolutely. I mean, when I did that article on the Whitney’s part of the museum show in New York, I was so happy about a painting called Two Discs which belonged to Hirshhorn because I knew they were going to have to come from Washington. But the curators only ever showed it within the first year of it being in the collection. It’s never been up, it’s been in storage. And I read an article complaining about that in a small magazine up in Washington because at the National Gallery someone like Rubens has something like four or five paintings. So someone like Adolph should have several paintings. And they’ve got the wonderful painting Spray which is usually up, but they should also put Two Discs up as well, in my opinion. They’re depriving the art world of seeing how great Adolph really was, or is.
