Whitney Museum, Photograph by Karin Jobst © 2016. Whitney Museum, Photograph by Karin Jobst © 2016. - Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von: kunstnuernberg

Wer: KunstNürnberg

Was: Presse

Wann: 22.07.2022

Wo: Nürnberg, Deutschland

The Whitney’s collection includes over 25,000 works created by more than 3,600 artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At its core are Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s personal holdings, totaling some six hundred works when the Museum opened in 1931. These works served as the basis for the founding collection, which Mrs.…
The Whitney’s collection includes over 25,000 works created by more than 3,600 artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At its core are Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s personal holdings, totaling some six hundred works when the Museum opened in 1931. These works served as the basis for the founding collection, which Mrs. Whitney continued to add to throughout her lifetime.

The founding collection reflects Mrs. Whitney’s ardent support of living American artists of the time, particularly younger or emerging ones, including Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dwight, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and John Sloan. This focus on the contemporary, along with a deep respect for artists’ creative processes and visions, has guided the Museum’s collecting ever since…

Tags: Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, George Bellows, John Sloan, Kunst, Mabel Dwight, Malerei, Peggy Bacon, Reginald Marsh, Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

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