Whitney Signs:
Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection
Sat, June 4, 2011
3 pm
Whitney Educator Andrew Fisher leads a tour during 2010 the Whitney Biennial, April, 2010. Photograph by Pete Deevakul
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Whitney Signs is a free American Sign Language gallery tour with voice interpretation. Join us this month for a tour of Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection at 4 pm, with a free pre-tour reception from 3–4 pm.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an heiress and sculptor born to one of America’s wealthiest families, began to assemble a rich and highly diverse collection of modern American art. This group of objects, combined with a trove of new works purchased around the time of the Whitney Museum’s opening in 1931, came together to form the founding collection. This exhibition features a selected group of works from the approximately 1,000 objects in the Whitney’s founding collection.
Please note: we regret that complimentary tickets will no longer be available for ASL students. Museum staff/interpreters will not be able to sign student assignments.
Admission to tour and reception is free. Registration is required; RSVP to asl_tours@whitney.org. Tickets may be picked up at the check-in location in the Museum lobby.
