Whitney Museum Of American Art

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important collections of 20th century American art. Located in New York City, USA, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 12,000 works in a wide variety of media. The Whitney places a particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists for its collection as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection containing many important pieces from the first half of the century. The museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and less well-known artists whose work the museum showcases.

History

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's namesake and founder, was herself a well-regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector. As a patron of the arts, she had already achieved some success as the creator of the "Whitney Studio Club," a New York-based exhibition space which she created in 1918 to promote the works of avant-garde and unrecognized artists. By 1929, she had amassed nearly 700 works of contemporary American art which she offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met turned down her gift, and Mrs. Whitney instead used her collection to found the "Whitney Museum of American Art" in 1931.^[1]

Gertrude Whitney's daughter, Flora Payne Whitney, served as a museum trustee, then as vice president. From 1942 to 1974 she was the museum's president and chairman after which she functioned as honorary chairman until her death in 1986. Her daughter, Flora Miller Biddle, served as its president until 1985. In 1999, her book The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made was published by Arcade Publishing (ISBN 978-1559705943).

After two changes of venue, the Whitney settled in 1966 at Madison Avenue at 75th Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side. The present building, planned and built 1963–1966 by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith in a distinctively modern style, is easily distinguished from the neighboring townhouses by its staircase façade made from granite stones and its external upside-down windows.

Collection

Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art.

The museum displays paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations, video, and photography. Every two years, the museum hosts the Whitney Biennial, an international art show which displays many lesser-known artists new to the American art scene.

The permanent collection contains more than 12,000 works of art from many renowned artists. Artists represented include Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Knox Martin, Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Edward Hopper, who bequeathed many of his works to the Whitney Museum.

In addition to its traditional collection the Whitney has a website, called Artport, that features "Net Art" that changes monthly.

Its current director is Adam Weinberg (since 2003). Former directors include Maxwell L. Anderson (1998-2003), David A. Ross (1991-1997), and Thomas Armstrong III (1974-1990).

Independent study program

In 1968, Ron Clark, at the age of 25, established in conjunction with the Whitney Musuem of American Art an independent study program (known as the ISP or sometimes the Whitney ISP), which helped start the careers of artists including Julian Schnabel, Rirkrit Tiravanija, as well as many other well-known, influencial artists. The program includes separate art history and studio programs. The programs include Critical Studies, Curatorial Studies and the Studio Program for Artists. It is a one year program that includes many both visiting and hired influential artists, art historians (Hal Foster, Benjamin Buchloh) and involves the reading of much theory. Ron Clark is still the mast-head of the program.

Governance

Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Robert J. Hurst, President of the Board of Trustees
Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney

References

1. ^ Berman, Avis (1990). Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Atheneum.

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Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1918.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9 1875 – April 18 1942) was born into the prominent United States Vanderbilt family and married into the prominent Whitney family.

Gertrude was born in New York City.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Established 1872
Location 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York
Visitor figures 4 million/year
Director Philippe de Montebello
Website www.metmuseum.
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Marcel Lajos Breuer

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Name Marcel Lajos Breuer
Nationality Hungarian
Birth date 21st May 1902
Birth place Pécs, Hungary
Date of death 1st July 1981
Place of death New York City, USA
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Painting, meant literally, is the practice of applying color to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete. However, when used in an artistic sense, the term "painting" means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition and
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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder
Birth name Alexander Calder
July 22 1898
Lawnton, Pennsylvania
November 11 1976 (aged 78)
New York, NY
United States
Sculpture
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Andy Warhol

Warhol in 1977.
Birth name Andrew Warhola
July 6 1928
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary U.S. artist in painting and printmaking.

Early life

Jasper Johns grew up in Allendale, South Carolina, and recounting this period in his life, he says, "In the place where I was a child, there were
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Knox Martin

January 12 1923
Barranquilla, Colombia

American
Painter, Muralist, Sculptor
Art Students League of New York
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Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s.

He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age.
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Jackson Pollock

Birth name Paul Jackson Pollock
January 28 1912
Cody, Wyoming
July 11 1956 (aged 44)
Springs, New York
American
Painter

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Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Biography

In the post World War II era, De Kooning painted in the style that is referred to as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and
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