211 works ofart by Pablo Picasso arein the collection ofthe Hirshhorn Mu-seum and SculptureGarden (his 1934Woman in a Hat).The artist was born in Malaga,Spain, 125 years ago this month. OCTOBER 2006 SMITHSONIAN 35 Lincolns Birthday Recalls His Novel But Forgotten Invention … Sketch illustrating Lincolns application for a patent for a new and improved method of buoying vessels over shoals. The letters A mark the location of the buoyant chambers. Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday we commemorate thismonth, included a bent for inventing among his many interests,according to…