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Unlike Scull, Hirshhorn never commissions a work. Despite that fact, he almost singlehandedly keeps the sculpture world solvent: last year he bought $785,000 worth of art. He spotted Rodin's Woman Crouching at a dealer's in 1957, and snapped it up because he liked the "play on anatomy." It promptly went into the Hirshhorn garden.
"Sculpture gets dignity outdoors it often doesn't inside," he says. "Take my Maillol woman. She's beautiful all year round, but when the snow is in her hands, I love her."