From the Vault: A Closer Look at the Whitney's Collection
Tues, Apr 23, 2019
7–9 pm
Edward Hopper, Study for Nighthawks, 1941 or 1942. Fabricated chalk and charcoal on paper; 11 1/8 × 15 in. (28.3 × 38.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase and gift of Josephine N. Hopper by exchange 2011.65 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Floor 6, Sondra Gilman Study Center
Contemporaries Patron Members
Join senior curatorial assistant Sarah Humphreville and curatorial fellow David Crane for a special “From the Vault” close look and discussion in the Whitney’s Sondra Gilman Study Center. The Center is a state-of-the-art storage, research, and display facility dedicated to the Whitney’s collection of over 19,000 works on paper. Sarah and David have selected a group of prewar prints and drawings from the Center’s holdings to discuss that will reveal the variety of American art from 1900 to 1945.
Artists on view will include Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Philip Guston, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Grant Wood.
Contemporaries Patron members are invited to this event. The invitation is for two individuals per membership household.
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