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This selection reflects the wide range of mediums and movements in the Whitney’s collection, which comprises over 19,000 works. Works are being added to the online selection on an ongoing basis.

About the collection

The Whitney’s collection—comprising more than 19,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and new media by more than 2,900 artists—contains some of the most significant and exciting work created by artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Museum’s rich holdings of realist and modernist work, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and Minimalism are particular strengths of the collection. In addition, the Museum has collected work by individuals who have shaped recent artistic practice but defy easy categorization by movement or medium. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Museum, focused her collecting efforts on living artists, and this emphasis has been a guiding principle of the collection for the past eight decades. An appreciation of the areas of inquiry, working methods, and material exploration of today’s living artists guides our current acquisitions.

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Man RayRayograph, 192497.140.2
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)I Cried When I Took This Picture, 193996.90.5
Arshile GorkyThe Artist and His Mother, c. 1926–3650.17
Dana SchutzSelf-Eater, 20052006.35
Mark RothkoAgitation of the Archaic, 194485.43.1
Guy  Pène du BoisOpera Box, 192631.184
George SegalWalk, Don’t Walk, 197679.4a-f
Elizabeth MurrayUntitled States (I–V), 19812008.274a-e
Edward RuschaTwentysix Gasoline Stations Slant, 19632005.44
Margaret Bourke-WhiteThe Louisville Flood, 193792.58
Thomas Hart BentonThe Lord is My Shepherd, 192631.100
Robert Bechtle‘61 Pontiac, 1968–69’accession-number’>70.16
Matt SaundersDanger Man #1, 20102010.82
Adolph GottliebVigil, 194849.2
Ellen GallagherDeLuxe, 2004–052006.340a-hhh
Shirin NeshatUnveiling, 19932000.267
This work is on view at the Museum
Matthew BarneyDRAWING RESTRAINT 7, 199393.33
Bruce ConnerPortrait of Allen Ginsberg, 196096.48
Robert Mangold1/2 Manila Curved Area, 196768.14a-d
Adam McEwenUntitled (Macaulay), 20042006.94.3
John SloanBackyards, Greenwich Village, 191436.153
Hans HaackeShapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971, 19712007.148a-gg
Larry ClarkUntitled, 196892.111.2
Nancy GravesCantileve, 198383.39
Kiki SmithUntitled, 199091.13a-d
Patrick Henry BrucePainting, c. 1921–2254.20
Sarah SzeStrange Attractor, 20002001.1
Annette LemieuxLeft Right Left Right, 19952001.176
R. H. QuaytmanDistracting Distance, Chapter 16, 20102010.56
Carolee SchneemannMeat Joy, 19642009.126
Louis GuglielmiTerror in Brooklyn, 194142.5
Daniel Joseph MartinezDivine Violence, 20072008.289a-nnnn
Gabriel OrozcoParachute in Iceland (South), 199697.36
Edward HopperAmerican Landscape, 192031.690
This work is on view at the Museum
Charles SheelerOffice Interior, Whitney Studio Club, 10 West 8 Street, c. 192893.24.1
Vija CelminsOcean Surface Woodcut, 199292.34
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