Verbal Description Online / The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 Sat, Sept 9, 2023, 11:30 am–1 pm

Verbal Description Online
The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

Sat, Sept 9, 2023
11:30 am–1 pm

Gray layers of oil paint and sediment radiate in a starlike shape from a central white point that seems to emanate light in a monumental abstract artwork standing over 10½ feet tall.
Gray layers of oil paint and sediment radiate in a starlike shape from a central white point that seems to emanate light in a monumental abstract artwork standing over 10½ feet tall.

Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958–66. Oil with wood and mica on canvas, 128 7/8 × 92 1/4 × 11 in. (327.3 × 234.3 × 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Jay DeFeo Trust and purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Judith Rothschild Foundation 95.170. © 2015 The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Verbal Description Online provides an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art through vivid description. Ninety-minute sessions are free-of-charge and are offered monthly on Friday mornings through Zoom and over the phone. This session will focus on the exhibition The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965.


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