A report on Whitney Museum, Edward Hopper and Greenwich Village

Childhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, New York

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

Vase (1893), example of Edward Hopper's earliest signed and dated artwork with attention to light and shadow.

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

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

Hopper's prizewinning poster, Smash the Hun (1919), reproduced on the front cover of the Morse Dry Dock Dial

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

Night on the El Train (1918) by Edward Hopper

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

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

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.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Where Hopper lived in New York City, 3 Washington Square North

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

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

Gravestone Edward and Josephine H., Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack

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.

Universalist Church, 1926, Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, Princeton University Art Museum

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

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

Nighthawks in the Art Institute of Chicago

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.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

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

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

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

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

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

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

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

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Whitney favored the radical art of the American artists of the Ashcan School such as John French Sloan, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, as well as others such as Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Max Weber.

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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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Shortly after his father's death that same year, Hopper moved to the 3 Washington Square North apartment in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, where he would live for the rest of his life.

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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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His stature took a sharp rise in 1931 when major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paid thousands of dollars for his works.

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There are numerous historic buildings in the neighborhood including Emma Lazarus' former residence on W 10th Street and Edward Hopper's former studio which now houses the NYU Silver School of Social Work.

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A report on Whitney Museum, Edward Hopper and Greenwich Village

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