Queering the Collection Sun, June 9, 2024, 2:30–3 pm

Queering the Collection

Sun, June 9, 2024
2:30–3 pm

In the middle ground, a man, woman and child sit stiffly in swim attire under a small umbrella on a deck with an empty beach behind them. In the foreground, a muscular male figure wearing only tight swim trunks and a whistle around his neck, holds up a baton, and behind them, a pale, gaunt male figure passes by.
In the middle ground, a man, woman and child sit stiffly in swim attire under a small umbrella on a deck with an empty beach behind them. In the foreground, a muscular male figure wearing only tight swim trunks and a whistle around his neck, holds up a baton, and behind them, a pale, gaunt male figure passes by.

Jared French, State Park, 1946. Egg tempera on composition board,  24 7/16 × 24 1/2in. (62.1 × 62.2 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Donnelley Erdman

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Floor 7

Sunday, June 9, 2:30 pm, 3 pm

Join us for a tour exploring gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ+ perspectives in Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1965. From Florine Stettheimer’s fabulous New York gay salons of the 1910s to Andy Warhol’s self-identity struggles in the 1960s, we will think about the diverse ways in which queerness has shaped the landscape of American modern art.

Patryk Tomaszewski is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching global twentieth-century realisms. His dissertation offers the first scholarly examination of exhibitions of Socialist Realist art in Stalinist Poland (1948–56). His writing has appeared in ARTMargins Online and MoMA’s post: Notes on Art in a Global Context, among other publications, and he is an adjunct lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.