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Explore the Whitney's collection of over 25,000 works, created by more than 3,600 American artists during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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25,543 works

Louis Fratino
The Sleepers
2020

Aaron Gilbert
Empire state of mind/Flaco 730 Broadway
2020

Alison Saar
Rise
2020

Cauleen Smith
Firespitters
2020

Diedrick Brackens
they spring from the embers of my mouth
2019

Two short-haired figures with brown and black skin blend together, their nude lower bodies entangled and parts of them vanishing into the green background

Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Run away with me
2019

Milano Chow
Floor Plan I
2019

Milano Chow
Night Exterior III
2019

Aria Dean
(meta)models: “I” is a crowd (demo)
2019

John Edmonds
Young man holding up Kuba cloth
2019

A cartoonish figure runs heroicallly through a river flowing through a saturated, neon landscape

Janiva Ellis
Uh Oh, Look Who Got Wet
2019

Black football player Colin Kaepernick kneels on the sidelines among standing teammates and servicemen

Kota Ezawa
National Anthem (San Francisco 49ers)
2019

Ellie Ga
Gyres 1-3
2019

Todd Gray
Onisimo / Leopold
2019

Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption
2019

Matthew Angelo Harrison
Worker Fragment: Gleam
2019

Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Traversed Vision
2019

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Floor 5

Madeline Hollander
Flatwing
2019

Madeline Hollander
Ouroboros Gs
2019

Madeline Hollander
Intersection Parallax Dance
2019

Madeline Hollander
Walker & Broadway Weekly Schedule
2019

Katherine Hubbard
still life spoon
2019

Katherine Hubbard
sculling
2019

Katherine Hubbard
blue stone bed rock
2019

Kahlil Robert Irving
Black Space ≈ Street Freedom (⊕Real Road ⊥imbedded flags⊗) “No I don’t smoke”
2019

Layered blue and orange prints of two Black women and a 19th century village. Text across the bottom reads: Squatter Settlement 1855. Now Central Park.

Tomashi Jackson
New Money (Mary had a plot of land & so did Ms. Marlene)
2019

A pinkish-red print of two Black men’s upper bodies, merged like kings on a playing card and oriented sideways

Tomashi Jackson
Make Two Black Property Owners Look Like One (Limited Value Exercise) (Mr. Lyons & Mr. Dorce)
2019

Tomashi Jackson
Hometown Buffet-Two Blues (Limited Value Exercise)
2019

Wyatt Kahn
Untitled
2019

Elisabeth Kley
Fountain with Arches and Nautilus Border
2019

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