Whitney Museum of American Art

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The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs-and is still growing. 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. Mrs. 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 . Her initial gift, however, also comprised many important works by early modern ists-Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth , Charles Sheeler , Max Weber, and others. Virtually all the works collected by the Museum for the next twenty years came through the generosity of Mrs. Whitney.

Although the Whitney's acquisition budget was always rather modest, the Museum made the most of its resources by purchasing the work of living artists, particularly those who were young and not well known. It has been a long-standing tradition of the Whitney to purchase works from the Museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions, which began in 1932 as a showcase for recent American art. A number of the Whitney's masterpieces came from these exhibitions, including works by Arshile Gorky , Stuart Davis , Reginald Mars h, Philip Guston , and Jasper Johns . Even today, the Museum continues to enrich its Permanent Collection via the Biennial; among the recent acquisitions are works by Mike Kelley , Matthew Barney , Louise Bourgeois , Zoe Leonard , Matthew Ritchie , and Shahzia Sikander .

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Dennis Adams     Josef Albers     William Anastasi     Polly Apfelbaum     Alexander Archipenko     Richard Artschwager     Milton Avery     Luis Cruz Azaceta     Saul Baizerman     Matthew Barney     Uta Barth     Roland Barthe     Jennifer Bartlett     Jean-Michel Basquiat     Gifford Beal     Lynda Benglis     Thomas Hart Benton     Wallace Berman     Isabel Bishop     Oscar Bluemner     Jonathan Borofsky     Louise Bourgeois     Nina Bovasso     Alexander Brodsky     Hans Burkhardt     Paul Cadmus     Alexander Calder     Beth Campbell     John Chamberlain     Dawn Clements     Chuck Close     Robert Colescott     Petah Coyne     Ann Craven     Ralston Crawford     Russell Crotty     Amy Cutler     Jo Davidson     Stuart Davis     Jay DeFeo     Charles Demuth     Liz Deschenes     Mark di Suvero     Arthur Dove     Sam Durant     Jacob El Hanani     Philip Evergood     Omer Fast     Tony Feher     Lyonel Feininger     Dan Flavin     Chris Freeman     Zipora Fried     Luis Gispert     Ralph Goings     Arshile Gorky     Robert Graham     Paul Graham     Timothy Greenfield-Sanders     Red Grooms     George Grosz     Evan Gruzis     Phillip Guston     Keith Haring     Marsden Hartley     Anthony Hernandez     Edward Hopper     Roni Horn     Robert Indiana     Robert Irwin     Emily Jacir     Neil Jenney     Alfred Jensen     Jasper Johns     Ray Johnson     Deborah Kass     Alex Katz     Mike Kelley     Ellsworth Kelly     Jon Kessler     Edward Kienholz     Byron Kim     Franz Kline     Willem de Kooning     Joseph Kosuth     Lee Krasner     Shigeko Kubota     Gary Kuehn

Gaston Lachaise     Rachel Lachowicz     Louise Lawler     An-My Le     Barry Le Va     Charles LeDray     Zoe Leonard     Les Levine     David Levinthal     Roy Lichtenstein     Glenn Ligon     Richard Lindner     Morris Louis     Inigo Manglano-Ovalle     Robert Mangold     Brice Marden     John Marin     Agnes Martin     Gordon Matta-Clark     Joel Meyerowitz     Laszló Moholy-Nagy     Robert Morris     Ree Morton     Ed Moses     Elizabeth Murray     Elie Nadelman     Bruce Nauman     Alice Neel     Louise Nevelson     Barnett Newman     Isamu Noguchi     Thomas Nozkowski     Jim Nutt     Claes Oldenburg     Catherine Opie     Carl Ostendarp     Tony Oursler     Nam June Paik     Ed Paschke     Jack Pierson     Howardena Pindell     Lari Pittman     Jackson Pollock     Mel Ramos     Robert Rauschenberg     Charles Ray     Man Ray     Ad Reinhardt     Matthew Ritchie     Dorothea Rockburne     Kay Rosen     Clifford Ross     Susan Rothenberg     Mark Rothko     Michal Rovner     Morgan Russell     Alison Saar     Lucas Samaras     Kenny Scharf     Richard Serra     Charles Sheeler     Shahzia Sikander     Gary Simmons     Laurie Simmons     David Smith     Kiki Smith     Alec Soth     Raphael Soyer     Doug & Mike Starn     Frank Stella     Gary Stephan     Joel Sternfeld     Larry Sultan     Donald Sultan     Philip Taaffe     Mark Tansey     Mark Tobey     Bradley W. Tomlin     Peter Voulkos     Kara Walker     Andy Warhol     Terry Winters     Jean Xceron     Peter Young     Joe Zucker