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  Whitney Museum of American Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
The Whitney Museum is particularly known for displaying contemporary American art, even more up-to-date than the Museum of Modern Art.
It is most famous for its long-standing tradition of hosting a biennial art show that displays many lesser-known artists new to the American art scene.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Art of Richard Tuttle is the first full-scale museum retrospective spanning the nearly forty-year career of this leading American artist of the post-minimalist generation.
The grid is one of the fundamental compositional and structuring devices of postwar art and became especially significant to the generation of Minimal and Conceptual artists of the 1960s.
Whitney Museum of American Art‚ New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1170.
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 Amazon Shop - Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988/89 ()
Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981/82 ()
Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986-87 ()
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 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Whitney, one of only a few museums in New York City that focuses entirely on American art, has a distinctly contemporary look of sharply angled, polished gray stone and glass.
If you have time, visit the National Academy Museum first, which has American art from the nineteenth century, and then go to the Whitney to see the progression into the twentieth century of American art.
The permanent exhibits occupy one floor of the museum while the other three floors and mezzanine are used for temporary exhibits, providing a good overview of the changes in American art over the last century.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art Review
The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; others were purchased by Mrs.
Whitney at the time of the opening to provide a more thorough overview of American art in the early decades of the century.
Whitney favored the art of the revolutionary artists derisively called the Ashcan School, among them John Sloan, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, as well as realists such as Edward Hopper and American Scene painters John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Opened to the public in 1931, the museum actively supports American art through the purchase and exhibition of the work of living artists.
by American artist Edward Hopper is a gift to the National Gallery of Art from the estate of John Hay and Betsey Whitney.
Arnold Schwarzenegger during the performance series, "Articulate Muscle: The Male Body in Art" at the Whitney Museum.
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 Barbara Kruger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum, commented, "it is especially timely that we are hosting the Barbara Kruger exhibition at the Whitney, where Kruger's work was shown as early as the 1973 Biennial.
Her major commissions include the park and outdoor amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC; a train station in Strasbourg, France; and floor mosaics for the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Her work is represented in many major museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; St. Louis Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art - Museums International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Whitney Museum of American Art : From Hopper to the present
The Whitney Museum of American Art was the one museum in New York City that I regretted not visiting when I visited the city in 1999.
It spanned US art of the entire 20th Century, with modern sculptures, Pollock, Jasper Johns and Warhol being especially prominent, and placed them in a cultural context e.g.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
The Three Gertrudes.(Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertude Stein and Gertie the Dinosaur and 'The American Century, Part I' exhibition ad Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York) (Art in America)
"The Art of Romare Bearden" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.(Exhibition notes)(Critical Essay) (New Criterion)
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 Art -- Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Featuring a large permanent collection and fine changing exhibitions of contemporary and modern American Art, the Whitney Museum offers opportunities for visitors to experience some of the finest work in the field.
Groups are welcome to tour the Museum, and have the option of hiring a lecturer to make the most of the tour with interactive discussion.
The Whitney Museum has an additional gallery at Philip Morris, 120 Park Avenue (42nd St.), New York, N.Y. [call (212) 878 2550 for information].
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 Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20th-century and contemporary American art.
Founded in 1930, the Whitney Museum emerged out of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's active role in supporting the American artists of her day and, over the course of 69 years, the Museum's holdings have grown to include approximately 12,000 works of art representing more than 1,900 artists.
The Whitney Museum and its two corporate-funded branch facilities--at Champion International Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut, and at Philip Morris, New York--bring a diverse range of exhibitions from historical surveys to in-depth retrospectives to an annual audience of nearly 500,000.
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 Art in America: Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Art in America: Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York) / Officials and employees
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has named Limor Tomer as adjunct curator of performing arts.
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 Whitney ARTPORT: The Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art
Follow Through is a mobile, audio-visual project accessible to museum visitors on portable media players in the Whitney's 5th Floor Permanent Collection galleries.
The artists reference the structure of the existing audio tour and invite visitors to engage in a set of exercises that bring well-established behavioral codes of museum attendance into relief.
A dozen artists coded a specific assignment in a language of their choice and were asked to exchange the code with each other for comments.
artport.whitney.org   (359 words)

  
 GoCityKids | Whitney Museum of American Art
While the Whitney might not be the first museum you'd think of for a child-friendly art afternoon, it does have an impressive collection,
Family Activity Guides (special family cards for the Whitney's exhibitions, designed to introduce children and families to selected works of art and encourage opportunities for looking at art together) are available free of charge to all families who visit the Museum.
Also inquire about the set of ten family activity cards focusing on highlights from the Whitney's acclaimed collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
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 Whitney Museum of American Art New York City- Manhattan sightseeing attractions-Must See New York
Whitney Museum of American Art New York City- Manhattan sightseeing attractions-Must See New York
The Upper East Side is an very affluent mostly residential Neighborhood bordered on the west by Central Park.
and the City's top museums can be found on the Museum Mile, from 82nd to 104th Sts.
www.mustseenewyork.com /attractions/whitney-museum-americanart.html   (68 words)

  
 Whitney Museum of American Art in The NYC Insider: An Insider's Guide to New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Whitney Museum of American Art in The NYC Insider: An Insider's Guide to New York City
The Whitney's impressive permanent collection includes more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, by such luminaries as Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe and Claes Oldenburg, providing it with the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum in the world.
But just as importantly (and some might say even more), the Whitney's always-hotly-debated Biennial explores the work of contemporary artists.
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 Whitney Museum - Marcel Breuer - Great Buildings Online
"For its third building in 35 years, the Whitney Museum chose a 100 x 125 foot site in the art gallery district of mid-town Madison Avenue where, among an environment of tall apartment buildings, a new, distinctive, and significant home was to be located.
Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982.
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 Find in a Library: The Annual & biennial exhibition record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989
The Annual & biennial exhibition record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989
Subjects: Annual exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art : 1969) -- Indexes.
Biennial exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art : 1973) -- Indexes.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Joseph Stella: Whitney Museum of American Art: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Stay at The Buckingham Hotel in the heart of the Art District in New York City.
Joseph Stella (1877-1946) is best known for his Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, especially those of the Brooklyn Bridge, which remain symbols of the machine age in America.
Whitney Museum Of American Art - Exhibition Catalogs
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 Whitney Museum of American Art information and related industry information from Hoover's
Whitney Museum of American Art information and related industry information from Hoover's
Whitney Museum of American Art houses more than 12,000 works of 20th- and 21st-century American art, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints, by some 2,000 artists.
Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Whitney Biennial 2004: Whitney Museum of American Art: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Art from Easyart - What Could Be Simpler
Penman Fairs organise high quality UK art and antiques fairs in London, Bath, Chester and Petersfield, Hampshire.
Subjects > Art, Architecture & Photography > Museums & Collections > Whitney Museum of American Art
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 Whitney Museum - Newyorkpass
The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading institution of American art and culture of our time, housed in a Marcel Breuer-designed building that is a landmark of modern architecture.
The Whitney's renowned holdings of 20th and 21st- century American art, arguably the finest such collection in the world, include works by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Jasper Johns.
The New York Pass grants you free admission to the Museum.
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 Whitney Houston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Email Whitney's new One Wish - The Holiday Album eCard to a friend and hear a medley of select songs from Whitney's eagerly anticipated first holiday album of her illustrious career.
Whitney's first holiday album ever is in stores now!
On this special occasion, the 1st Annual BET Awards, we pay tribute to Whitney Houston for a lifetime of outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry.
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 Images of the Whitney Museum of American Art, by Marcel Breuer, 1966, New York City.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Images of the Whitney Museum of American Art, by Marcel Breuer, 1966, New York City.
Although the museum is located on a small corner site, the design maximizes the space through the use of cantilevered upper floors.
The entrance, the moat sculpture garden, and a detail of the side with its irregularly spaced windows
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 Whitney Museum of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On View Now, Upcoming Exhibitions, Past Exhibitions, Touring Exhibitions, The Whitney Biennial, artport
The Permanent Collection, WMAA at Altria, Recent acquisitions, Featured Artists, American Voices Online Tour, History of the Whitney, The Breuer Building
The Whitney Museum of American Art portal to net art
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 University of Michigan Library Name Resolver Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Note: Installation view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 1981
Source: Into the light: the projected image in American art, 1964-1977; Iles, Chrissie
Subject: Multi-media; Installations; Video Art; Installation view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 1981; Art
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 Welcome to the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Click here to see our 2004/05 annual report
All the text and img published in the Winnipeg Art Gallery's web site are for personal use only and are not for use in public domain.
You may not re-use any text or image in any other publication or for any commercial use.
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 University of Michigan Library Name Resolver Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Author: Breuer, Marcel 1902-1981; Smith, Hamilton P. Title: Whitney Museum of American Art; Two interior views
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Subject: ; North America; New York; Gallery; USA; Cultural Buildings; Museums; New York; Two interior views; Built Environment
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