The Whitney's Collection
Sept 28, 2015–Apr 4, 2016
The more than two hundred works on display on the seventh and sixth floors represent a selection of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection. Organized in a rough chronological sequence beginning on the seventh floor, the presentation is divided into eleven thematic “chapters.” Each chapter takes its name not from a movement or style but from the title of a work that evokes the section’s animating impulse. The exhibition elaborates some of the themes, ideas, beliefs, and passions that have galvanized American artists in their struggle to work within and against established conventions, often directly engaging their political and social contexts. Works of art across all mediums are displayed together, acknowledging the ways in which artists have engaged various modes of production and dissolved the boundaries between them.
As a collection presentation, the works on view necessarily reflect the Whitney’s record of acquisitions and exhibitions, which constitutes a kind of collective memory—one that represents a range of individual, sometimes conflicting, attitudes toward what American art might be or mean or do at any given moment. Works that have rarely, if ever, been shown appear alongside beloved icons in an effort to unsettle assumptions about the American art canon. The presentation also underscores the difficulty of neatly defining the country’s ethos and inhabitants, a challenge that lies at the heart of the Museum’s commitment to and continually evolving understanding of American art.
Artists
Events
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May 1
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Apr 30
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Apr 4
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 3
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 3
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 3
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Apr 2
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 2
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 2
Sketching Tour: Drawing Abstraction!
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Apr 2
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Fri,
Apr 1
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Apr 1
Spotlight on Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner
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Apr 1
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 31
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 31
Spotlight on Marsden Hartley
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Mar 31
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 30
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 30
Spotlight on Gerald Murphy and Stuart Davis
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Mar 30
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 28
Spotlight on Edward Hopper and Joseph Stella
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Mar 28
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 27
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 27
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 27
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Mar 26
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 26
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 26
Weekend Member Early Admission
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Mar 25
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 25
Spotlight on Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner
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Mar 25
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 24
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 24
Spotlight on Marsden Hartley
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Mar 24
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 23
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 23
Spotlight on Gerald Murphy and Stuart Davis
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Mar 23
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 21
Spotlight on George Bellows and Reginald Marsh
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Mar 21
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 20
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 20
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 20
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 19
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 19
Family Fun: Making in 3D!
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Mar 19
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 19
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 19
Sketching Tour: Drawing Abstraction!
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Mar 19
Stroller Tour:
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Mar 18
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 18
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 18
Spotlight on Edward Hopper and Joseph Stella
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Mar 18
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 17
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 17
Spotlight on Reginald Marsh and George Bellows
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Thurs,
Mar 17
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 16
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 16
Spotlight on Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner
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Mar 16
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 14
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 13
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
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Mar 13
The Whitney’s Collection: Floor Seven
Whitney Stories
Beyond Documentation: Davarian Baldwin on Archibald Motley’s Gettin’ Religion
"This piece gets at the full gamut of what I consider to be Black democratic possibility, from the sacred to the profane."