Spotlight On...
July 14–Oct 27, 2017
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958. Encaustic on canvas (three panels), 30 7/8 × 45 3/4 in. (78.4 × 116.2 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, Laura-Lee Whittier Woods, Howard Lipman, and Ed Downe in honor of the Museum’s 50th Anniversary 80.32. © 2021 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Floor 7
FRIDAYS, 12 PM
Location: Floor Seven
Spotlight tours offer an opportunity to slow down and look closely at select highlights from the Whitney Museum's Collection. Guided by a Museum docent, participants are encouraged to study and discuss works together. Each forty-five minute session either focuses on a single work of art, or explores a connection between two works. Session dates and artworks are listed below.
July 14
Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns
July 21
Marsden Hartley
July 28
Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton
August 4
Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns
August 11
Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns
August 18
Elsie Driggs and Frank Stella
August 25
Marsden Hartley
September 1
Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns
September 8
Henry Koerner and Ruth Asawa
September 15
Henry Koerner and Jared French
September 22
Jacob Lawrence
September 29
Joseph Stella and Edward Hopper
October 6
Henry Koerner and Ruth Asawa
October 13
Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns
October 20
Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton
October 27
Henry Koerner and Jared French
