Verbal Description and Touch Tour: / Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection Fri, June 17, 2011, 11 am–12:30 pm

Verbal Description and Touch Tour:
Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection

Fri, June 17, 2011
11 am–12:30 pm

John Steuart Curry (1897 1946). Baptism in Kansas, (1928). Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 × 50 1/4in. (102.2 × 127.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.159

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Please join us for a free guided tour of Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection, when the Museum is closed to the general public. Whitney verbal description tours provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or partially sighted and their companions to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century American art through vivid description and tactile opportunities.

This event is free of charge. Please call (212) 570-7789 or RSVP to AccessFeedback@Whitney.org as space is limited.


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