Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York district of Manhattan is one of the most important collections of American art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1931 with approximately 700 works of art from their own possession.

Building

The present building was up in 1966 by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith planned and built according to two parades in 1963. It impresses with its stepped facade of large gray granite stones and the everting itself to the outside windows. After 1998 the building was carefully enlarged by the purchase of a neighboring building and the relocation of offices and storage rooms in the new building, an extension and renovation of the existing building by Renzo Piano is planned. In 2010, the estimated cost of construction for the new building in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan amounted to 680 million U.S. dollars. 2015 should be completed civil works.

Collection

The museum exhibits paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations, video art and photographs. Every two years, informed the Whitney Biennial in a large-scale, internationally acclaimed exhibition about the current state of the American art scene. In 1978 it came with the exhibition " New Image Painting " based on the art movement.

The permanent collection includes over 18,000 artworks by over 2,800 artists (as of 2011). To tap represents the Whitney Museum online database.

Represented include the artist Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, Thomas Hart Benton, Louise Bourgeois, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Ron Davis, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, William Eggleston, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Keith Haring, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, John Marin, Agnes Martin, Knox Martin, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jackson Pollock, Maurice Prendergast, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Morgan Russell, John Sloan, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Anne Truitt, Andy Warhol.

The museum preserves the entire estate of Edward Hopper's widow Josephine Nivison Verstille with over 3100 stations.