1,036,108,098 visitors served.
1,036,108,098 visitors served. |
|
 Dictionary/ thesaurus |  Medical dictionary |  Legal dictionary |  Financial dictionary |  Acronyms |  Idioms |  Encyclopedia |  Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
Whitney Museum of American Art |
Also found in: Wikipedia | 0.04 sec. |
|
Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). Opened to the public in 1931, the museum actively supports American art through the purchase and exhibition of the work of living artists. Its extensive permanent collection contains sculpture, paintings, drawings, and prints, which are exhibited regularly. Biennial shows of works in various media provide comprehensive reviews of each year's American art. The spacious Madison Avenue building designed by Marcel Breuer Breuer, Marcel Lajos (broi`ər), 1902–81, American architect and furniture designer, b. Hungary. ..... Click the link for more information. to house the collection was opened in 1966. |
|
? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Board of Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art has entered into a Conditional Designation Letter with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to acquire a site at Gansevoort and Washington Streets to build a second museum facility. IN THE FALL OF 2005 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York mounted three remarkable retrospectives of avant-garde filmmakers of the same artistic generation: All three--Robert Beavers, Owen Land (born George Landow), and Morgan Fisher--began making films in the 1960s, and all three won considerable recognition while still quite young (Beavers and Land were teenagers when they screened their first films; Fisher was in his midtwenties). Some of the same artists have their works displayed in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress in Washington, D. |
 |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Browser extension |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|
|---|
Disclaimer |
Privacy policy |
Feedback | Copyright © 2008 Farlex, Inc.
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
Whitney Museum of American Art