The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art museum in Manhattan that focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection comprises more than 23,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,400 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection of important pieces from the first half of the last century.
From 1966 to 2014, the Whitney was at 945 Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The museum closed in 2014 to relocate to a new building in the West Village, Meatpacking District neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan; it reopened at the new location in 2015. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy American art patron after whom it is named.
A Tour of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- “Dempsey and Firpo” by George Bellows
- “New York Interior” by Edward Hopper
Whitney Museum of American Art
- Name: Whitney Museum of American Art
- Informal Name: Whitney
- City: New York City
- Established: 1931
- Type: Art Museum
- Location: 99 Gansevoort Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City
A Tour of New York Museums
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Neue Galerie New York
- The Cloisters
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of the City of New York
- New-York Historical Society
- Frick Collection
- Met Breuer
- Rubin Museum of Art
- Jewish Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Brooklyn Museum
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“The modern world thinks of art as very important:
something close to the meaning of life.”
– Alain de Botton
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