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As a patron of the arts, she began acquiring art in 1905, and had achieved some success with the Whitney Studio and Whitney Studio Club, New York–based exhibition spaces she operated from 1914 to 1928 to promote the works of avant garde and unrecognized American artists. Whitney favored the radical art of the American artists of the Ashcan ...
In 1929, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected Whitney's offer of the gift of nearly 500 new artworks that she had collected, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art. [12] In 1931, she had architect Auguste L. Noel of the firm of Noel & Miller convert the three row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street into a gallery and ...
Pages in category "Paintings in the Whitney Museum of American Art" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Whitney Museum of American Art (original building) Diane R. Wolf; The World's First Collaborative Sentence This page was last edited on 28 August 2023, at 07:48 ...
Winter Fields is a 1942 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It depicts a dead, frozen crow in a landscape with fields and distant farm buildings. The painting is hosted at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York. [1]
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1975) Berlin Artist Programme Akademie der Künste (1975) Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (1977) Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1978) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1978) Orlando International Airport, Orlando (1986) - The Traveler
In 1915 Vera McEntire married Samuel S. White, and the two went on to become art collectors and philanthropists to the art community. [3] [4] Their gift to the Philadelphia Art museum, gathered over 50 years, is known as the Samuel S. White III and Vera White Collection. [5] Arthur Beecher Carles painted a portrait of White in 1922. [6]