Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a modern and contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The institution was originally founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named.The Whitney focuses on collecting and preserving 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th century to the present, comprises more than 25,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,500 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining institutional archives of historical documents pertaining to modern and contemporary American art, including the Edward and Josephine Hopper Research Collection (the museum is the largest repository of Edward Hopper's artwork and archival materials in the world), the Sanborn Hopper Archive, and the Arshile Gorky Research Collection, among others.
From 1966 to 2014, the Whitney was located at 945 Madison Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side in a building designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith. The museum closed in October 2014 to relocate to its current building, which was designed by Renzo Piano at 99 Gansevoort Street and opened on May 1, 2015, expanding the museum exhibition space to 50,000 square feet.
The museum organizes the Whitney Biennial, a bi-annual exhibition showcasing the work of emerging American artists, considered the longest-running and most important survey of contemporary art in the United States. The museum also heads the Whitney Independent Study Program, which began in 1968, to support artists, critics and art historians by "encouraging the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture". In 2023, with 768,000 visitors, the Whitney was the 26th most-visited museum in the United States and the 89th most-visited art museum in the world. Provided by Wikipedia
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200 years of American sculpture
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Isamu Noguchi by Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988
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Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925 by Levin, Gail, 1948-
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John Heliker by Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
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The flowering of American folk art, 1776-1876 by Lipman, Jean, 1909-1998
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Marca-Relli by Marca-Relli, Conrad, 1913-2000
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Art in place, fifteen years of acquisitions
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Developments in recent sculpture
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The New sculpture 1965-75 : between geometry and gesture
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Burgoyne Diller by Haskell, Barbara
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Robert Morris. by Tucker, Marcia
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Jasper Johns by Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
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Terry Winters by Phillips, Lisa, 1954-
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Edward Ruscha Los Angeles apartments, 1965 / Los Angeles apartments, 1965 by Marshall, Richard, 1947-2014
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Milton Avery by Haskell, Barbara
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Charles Demuth by Haskell, Barbara
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Robert Mapplethorpe by Marshall, Richard, 1947-2014
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Agnes Martin by Haskell, Barbara
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Black male : representations of masculinity in contemporary American art by Golden, Thelma
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Catalogue of the collection
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Whitney Museum of American Art : selected works from the permanent collection
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The American century : art and culture, 1900-1950 by Haskell, Barbara
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The American century : art & culture, 1950-2000 / Art and culture, 1950-2000 by Phillips, Lisa
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Reflections of nature : flowers in American art by Foshay, Ella M., 1948-
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Three centuries of American art. by Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
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Lucas Samaras by Samaras, Lucas, 1936-
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Jim Dine by Dine, Jim, 1935-
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Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1828-1901 by Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901
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Dirt & domesticity : constructions of the feminine : June 12-August 14, 1992, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center. / Dirt and domesticity
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Edward Hopper : the art and the artist by Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967
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In the Spirit of Fluxus : published on the occasion of the exhibition ...
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Grant Wood, the regionalist vision by Corn, Wanda M.
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Maurice Prendergast by Mathews, Nancy Mowll
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Ceramic sculpture : six artists
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Abstract expressionism : the formative years by Hobbs, Robert Carleton, 1946-
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The painters' America : rural and urban life, 1810-1910 by Hills, Patricia
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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) : realist painter in an age of abstraction by Porter, Fairfield
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Treasures of American folk art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center / American folk art
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Artschwager, Richard by Armstrong, Richard, 1949-
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