A report on Greenwich Village, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Whitney Museum

Portrait of Ryder by Kahlil Gibran, 1915 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

Albert Pinkham Ryder (1938), a posthumous tribute by Marsden Hartley, who painted a series of dark landscapes inspired by the work of Ryder in 1909

The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

The Spirit of Autumn (c. 1875) Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.

The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

The Grazing Horse (1872 to 1878) oil on canvas, 10 x 14 in. Brooklyn Museum

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Children Frightened by a Rabbit (1870s) oil on leather, 38.5 x 20.25 in. Smithsonian

The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Summers Fruitful Pastures (mid 1870s) oil on wood, 7.75 x 10 in. Brooklyn Museum

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The Lone Scout, c. 1885) oil on canvas, 2.9 x 10 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

In the Stable (early to mid 1870s) oil on canvas, 21 x32 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

Jonah. (mid 1880s to 1890s). oil on canvas, 27.25 x 34.37 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

Constance (mid 1880s to mid 1890s) oil on canvas. 28.25 x 36 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Flying Dutchman, c. 1896, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens (1888–1891), oil on canvas, 20 x 20.50 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) (1895–1910), oil on canvas, 28.25 x 35.25. Cleveland Museum of Art

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

The Lover's Boat c. 1881, Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

The Waste of Waters is Their Field, early 1880s, Brooklyn Museum

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

With Sloping Mast and Dipping Prow (late 1880s) oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Story of the Cross (mid to late 1880s) oil on canvas on panel, 14 x 11.25 in. Princeton University Art Museum

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

The Forest of Arden (1888 - 1897, possibly reworked 1908). Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Seacoast in Moonlight, 1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

The Dead Bird, 1890-1900, oil on wood, 4.75 x 10 in. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

His brother also managed the Hotel Albert, which became a Greenwich Village landmark.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney.

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For instance, Ryder's piece, Elegy, while on loan to the Whitney Museum, was examined by Lloyd Goodrich, then a curator at the Whitney.

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Artists represented include Josef Albers, Joe Andoe, Edmund Archer, Donald Baechler, Thomas Hart Benton, Lucile Blanch, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Gordon Brown, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Suzanne Caporael, Norman Carton, Carolina Caycedo, Ching Ho Cheng, Talia Chetrit, Ann Craven, Anna Craycroft, Dan Christensen, Greg Colson, Susan Crocker, Ronald Davis, Stuart Davis, Mira Dancy, Lindsey Decker, Martha Diamond, Richard Diebenkorn, Daniella Dooling, Arthur Dove, Loretta Dunkelman, William Eggleston, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arshile Gorky, Keith Haring, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Carmen Herrera, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Richard Hunt, Jasper Johns, Corita Kent, Franz Kline, Terence Koh, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, John Marin, Knox Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Paul Pfeiffer, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Maurice Prendergast, Kenneth Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Morgan Russell, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Cindy Sherman, John Sloan, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and hundreds of others.

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After 1902, the owner's brother Albert Pinkham Ryder lived and painted there.

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By the 1930s it had evolved into her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

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A report on Greenwich Village, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Whitney Museum

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