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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 .
The Whitney has historically depended on private collectors and donors for acquisitions of new art. [57] In 2008, Leonard A. Lauder gave the museum $131 million, the biggest donation in the Whitney's history. [57] [58] Donations for new purchases dropped to $1.3 million in 2010 from $2.7 million in 2006. [54]
The Whitney Museum of American Art 's original building is a collection of three 1838 rowhouses at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family .
Paintings in the Whitney Museum of American Art (21 P) Pages in category "Collection of the Whitney Museum" This category contains only the following page.
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 ...
Whitney Houston would have turned 51 today, August 9th, and we're paying a tribute by taking a look back at her career that spanned decades and delighted fans around the world in the slideshow above.
The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American [1] art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was in 1973. It is considered the longest-running and most important survey of contemporary art in the United States.