Whitney Museum
Manhattan art institution
The Whitney Museum is a major art museum in New York City devoted to American art from the twentieth century onward.
Founded in 1931 by sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum is known for its collection of modern and contemporary works and for the Whitney Biennial, a survey exhibition of recent American art.
Often called simply the Whitney: We spent the afternoon at the Whitney.
- MoMANew York contemporary gallery
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- MinimalismArt stripped to essentials
- contemporary sculptureRecent three-dimensional artworks
- New York art sceneManhattan's contemporary creative world
Edward Hopper · Andy Warhol · Jackson Pollock · American art · Norman Rockwell · Mark Rothko · Grant Wood · Postmodernism · Tate Modern · Louvre · Georgia O'Keeffe · Pop Art
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- museumsexhibits, galleries, exhibitions, exhibit, exhibition
- NYC AttractionsEmpire State Building, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Statue of Liberty
- American ArtAmerican art, Hudson River School, American Renaissance, Ashcan School, Abstract Expressionism
- American MuseumsMoMA, Guggenheim, National Gallery, Smithsonian, LACMA
- Art VenuesMoMA, Tate Modern, Guggenheim, LACMA, art center
artistic scope
Whitney MuseumThe Louvre
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