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Art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.
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Museum of Modern Art
15 linksArt museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Art work on the 3rd and 4th floors were evacuated to the Whitney Museum of American Art, which abutted it on the 54th Street side.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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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.
Renzo Piano
2 linksItalian architect.
Italian architect.
His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), İstanbul Modern in Istanbul (2022) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016).
945 Madison Avenue
2 linksMuseum building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
Museum building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built from 1964 to 1966 as the third home for the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Whitney Biennial
2 linksThe Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States.
Edward Hopper
4 linksAmerican realist painter and printmaker.
American realist painter and printmaker.
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.
Greenwich Village
7 linksNeighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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.
Max Weber (artist)
1 linksJewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art.
Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art.
He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman.
Juliana R. Force
1 linksAmerican art museum administrator and director.
American art museum administrator and director.
Force became a director of art galleries and of a temporary museum of American art in Greenwich Village in New York City that became the Whitney Museum of American Art.
8th Street and St. Mark's Place
2 linksStreet in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.
Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.
The three former 1838 row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street between Fifth Avenue and Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village were converted in 1931 by Auguste L. Noel of Noel & Miller into the first home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which sculptor and heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had established in 1929, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected the donation of her extensive collection of contemporary and avant-garde artworks. In 1914, Whitney had started the Whitney Studio at 8 West 8th Street, just behind her own studio on MacDougal Alley. The museum was located here until 1954, when it moved uptown. The building is currently, along with 14 West 8th Street (built in 1900), the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.