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Whitney Museum of American Art galleries. Photograph by Timothy Schenck
Member Events: members at the Friend level and above and Founding Dual members.
6:30–7:30 PM
Whitney Museum of American Art. Photograph by Ed Lederman
Member Events: All members
7:30–10 PM
Photograph by Ed Lederman. 
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Archibald J. Motley Jr. (1891–1981), Mulatress with Figurine and Dutch Seascape, c. 1920. Oil on canvas, 31.375 × 27.625 in. (79.7 × 75.6 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois © Valerie Gerrard Browne
Member Events: Learning Series Members in the Curate Your Own Program
5:30–6:30 PM
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Chocorua IV, 1966. Fluorescent alkyd and epoxy paint on canvas, 120 x 128 x 4 in. (304.8 x 325.1 x 10.2 cm). Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; purchased through the Miriam and Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund, a gift from Judson and Carol Bemis, Class of 1976, and gifts from the Lathrop Fellows, in honor of Brian P. Kennedy, Director of the Hood Museum of Art, 2005–2010. © 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Member Events: Patron, Circle, Fellow, Sponsor, Contemporaries, and Contemporaries Patron members
6:30–8:30 PM
Photograph by Ed Lederman. 
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Marisol (b. 1930), Women and Dog, 1963-64. Wood, plaster, synthetic polymer, taxidermied dog head and miscellaneous items, 73 9/16 × 76 5/8 × 26 3/4 in. (186.8 × 194.6 × 67.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 64.17a-I © Marisol / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Lorna Simpson (1960-), 2 Tracks, 1990. Three gelatin silver prints with frames and two plastic plaques, 48 7/8 × 62 9/16 × 1 11/16 in. (124.1 × 158.9 × 4.3 cm). Edition 4/4. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Raymond J. Learsy and Gabriella De Ferrari  91.59.4a-e  © Lorna Simpson
Alma Thomas (1891-1978), Mars Dust, 1972. Acrylic on canvas, 69 1/4 × 57 1/8 in. (175.9 × 145.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Hament Corporation 72.58 © artist’s estate
George Bellows (1882-1975), Dempsey and Firpo, 1924. Oil on canvas, 51 1/8 × 63 1/4 in. (129.9 × 160.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.95
Mike Kelley (1954-2012), More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987. Stuffed fabric toys and afghans on canvas with dried corn; wax candles on wood and metal base, 120 3/4 × 151 3/4 × 31 3/4 in. (306.7 × 385.4 × 80.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 89.13a-d Art © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Licensed by VAGA, New York
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Hollywood Africans, 1983. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 84 1/16 × 84 in. (213.5 × 213.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Douglas S. Cramer 84.23 © 2015 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Whitney’s collection contains some of the most significant and exciting work created by artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.