Whitney Biennial 1973: Contemporary American Art
Jan 10–Mar 18, 1973
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Artists
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Alice Adams
1 work in the collection
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William Allan
2 works in the collection
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Terry Allen
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Carl Andre
14 works in the collection
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Jo Baer
5 works in the collection
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Malcolm Bailey
1 work in the collection
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John Baldessari
40 works in the collection
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Frances Barth
1 work in the collection
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Joel Bass
1 work in the collection
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Robert Bechtle
4 works in the collection
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Lynda Benglis
5 works in the collection
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Fletcher Benton
1 work in the collection
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Tony Berlant
2 works in the collection
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Jake Berthot
3 works in the collection
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Natalie Bieser
1 work in the collection
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Ronald Bladen
2 works in the collection
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Louise Bourgeois
32 works in the collection
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Frank Bowling
2 works in the collection
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Roger Brown
3 works in the collection
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Howard Buchwald
2 works in the collection
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Peter Campus
12 works in the collection
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John Chamberlain
8 works in the collection
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Dan Christensen
3 works in the collection
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John Clem Clarke
5 works in the collection
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Arthur Cohen
1 work in the collection
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Gene Davis
6 works in the collection
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David Diao
1 work in the collection
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Jim Dine
93 works in the collection
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John Duff
2 works in the collection
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Jimmy Ernst
6 works in the collection
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Fred Eversley
1 work in the collection
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Jackie Ferrara
1 work in the collection
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Rafael Ferrer
1 work in the collection
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Mary Frank
5 works in the collection
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Helen Frankenthaler
11 works in the collection
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Ernest Frazier
1 work in the collection
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William Geis
1 work in the collection
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Gregory Gillespie
3 works in the collection
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Carl Gliko
1 work in the collection
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Michael Goldberg
6 works in the collection
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Sidney Goodman
7 works in the collection
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Joyce Cole
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Jaime Davidovitch
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Stuart Diamond
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Guy Dill
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Loretta Dunkelman
1 work in the collection
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Robert Duran
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Charles Fahlen
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Sherron Francis
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Richard Friedberg
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Jacqueline Gourevitch
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Ken Greenleaf
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Mary Grigoriadis
1 work in the collection
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Peter Gutkin
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Michael D. Hall
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Randy Hardy
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Robert Hartman
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Gilah Hirsch
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Will Horwitt
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Lila Katzen
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Frances Kuehn
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Richard Landry
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John Mason
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Louisa Matthiasdottir
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Dennis McCarthy
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David McManaway
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Clement Meadmore
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Richard Mock
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Joan Moment
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Ray Parker
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Joanna Pousette-Dart
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Peter Reginato
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James Reineking
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Ed Ruda
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Ray Saunders
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Charles Schucker
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Arden Scott
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John Seery
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Nate Shiner
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Ed Shostak
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Alex Siburney
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Louis Siegriest
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Site, Inc.
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Arlene Slavin
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Susan Smith
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Christopher Sproat
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Jim Starrett
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Andy Tavarelli
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Gary Tenenbaum
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Edgar Tolson
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Ann Truitt
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Susan Tunick
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Nancy Van Deren
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Lester Van Winkle
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Robert Wade
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Jeffrey Way
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Lynton Wells
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Salle Werner
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Nina Yankowitz
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Raphael Soyer
50 works in the collection
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Roy De Forest
3 works in the collection
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Robert Gordy
1 work in the collection
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Adolph Gottlieb
11 works in the collection
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Stephen Greene
4 works in the collection
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Nancy Grossman
3 works in the collection
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Robert Grosvenor
2 works in the collection
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Ira Joel Haber
1 work in the collection
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Duane Hanson
1 work in the collection
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Al Held
8 works in the collection
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Gary Hudson
1 work in the collection
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Joel Janowitz
1 work in the collection
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Neil Jenney
6 works in the collection
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Alfred J. Jensen
5 works in the collection
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Jasper Johns
212 works in the collection
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Buffie Johnson
1 work in the collection
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Lester Johnson
4 works in the collection
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Donald Judd
59 works in the collection
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Jane Kaufman
2 works in the collection
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Ellsworth Kelly
44 works in the collection
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Lyman Kipp
1 work in the collection
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Harriet Korman
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Louise Fishman
1 work in the collection
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Lee Krasner
10 works in the collection
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Barbara Kruger
6 works in the collection
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Nicholas Krushenick
3 works in the collection
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Kay Kurt
1 work in the collection
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Ronnie Landfield
2 works in the collection
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Alfred Leslie
8 works in the collection
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Mon Levinson
5 works in the collection
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Alexander Liberman
9 works in the collection
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Roy Lichtenstein
445 works in the collection
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Alvin Loving
2 works in the collection
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Brice Marden
91 works in the collection
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Ann McCoy
2 works in the collection
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Brenda Miller
2 works in the collection
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Mary Miss
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Joan Mitchell
11 works in the collection
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Robert Morris
30 works in the collection
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Ree Morton
1 work in the collection
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Robert Moskowitz
9 works in the collection
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Robert Motherwell
19 works in the collection
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Catherine Murphy
3 works in the collection
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Elizabeth Murray
49 works in the collection
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Robert Murray
1 work in the collection
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Louise Nevelson
101 works in the collection
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Kenneth Noland
4 works in the collection
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Richard Nonas
21 works in the collection
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David Novros
3 works in the collection
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Jim Nutt
5 works in the collection
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Kenzo Okada
1 work in the collection
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Jules Olitski
3 works in the collection
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William Omwake
1 work in the collection
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George Ortman
5 works in the collection
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Ed Paschke
3 works in the collection
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Philip Pearlstein
19 works in the collection
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Joel Perlman
1 work in the collection
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Irving Petlin
4 works in the collection
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William Pettet
2 works in the collection
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Larry Poons
3 works in the collection
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Katherine Porter
2 works in the collection
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Richard Pousette-Dart
8 works in the collection
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Robert Povlich
1 work in the collection
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Harvey Quaytman
3 works in the collection
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Joseph Raffael
2 works in the collection
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Christina Ramberg
3 works in the collection
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Robert Rauschenberg
83 works in the collection
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Milton Resnick
6 works in the collection
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Dorothea Rockburne
8 works in the collection
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Tony Robbin
1 work in the collection
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Robert Rohm
1 work in the collection
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Bernard Rosenthal
2 works in the collection
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Ludwig Sander
3 works in the collection
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William Schwedler
1 work in the collection
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Richard Serra
24 works in the collection
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Alan Shields
5 works in the collection
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Alan Siegel
2 works in the collection
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Tony Smith
3 works in the collection
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Robert Smithson
16 works in the collection
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Kenneth Snelson
3 works in the collection
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Joan Snyder
4 works in the collection
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Jack Sonenberg
2 works in the collection
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Keith Sonnier
5 works in the collection
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Michael Steiner
1 work in the collection
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Pat Steir
39 works in the collection
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Frank Stella
84 works in the collection
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Gary Stephan
1 work in the collection
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Sylvia Stone
1 work in the collection
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George Sugarman
7 works in the collection
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George Trakas
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Cy Twombly
11 works in the collection
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Jack Tworkov
8 works in the collection
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William Wegman
53 works in the collection
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Neil Welliver
1 work in the collection
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Tom Wesselmann
12 works in the collection
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William T. Wiley
8 works in the collection
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Hannah Wilke
4 works in the collection
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Neil Williams
1 work in the collection
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Christopher Wilmarth
14 works in the collection
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Jackie Winsor
2 works in the collection
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Philip Wofford
2 works in the collection
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Adja Yunkers
10 works in the collection
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Larry Zox
9 works in the collection
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Thomas Bang
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Paula Barr
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James Boynton
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Peter Bradley
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Cynthia Carlson
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H.C. Westermann
11 works in the collection
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Joe Haske
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Joan Jonas
11 works in the collection
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Alex Katz
80 works in the collection
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Robert Lobe
3 works in the collection
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Richard McDermott Miller
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Jay Wholley
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Nancy Graves
9 works in the collection
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Robert Stanley
4 works in the collection
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Luis Jimenez
1 work in the collection
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Robert Zakanitch
3 works in the collection
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Bill Bollinger
1 work in the collection
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Stephen A. Davis
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Ed Clark
1 work in the collection
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Forrest Myers
1 work in the collection
Installation Photography

Installation view of the 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 10–March 18, 1973). From left to right: Clement Meadmore, Dervish; Ronald Bladen, Untitled; center: Forest Myers, Smoke in Grass; Alice Adams, Long Wall; Jack Sonenberg, Perimeter II. Photograph by Sandak, Inc.

In the News
“The old Whitney annuals used to alternate between painting and sculpture on alternate years, but the new art styles employing new media [. . .] do not permit such hard-and-fast categorization.” —The New York Times
“The Whitney, ever yearning to get with it, has tried to give us a playground—that is exactly what the biennial suggests, a kind of mail-order jungle gym—but we’ve outgrown it.” —The New York Times
“. . . the entire exhibition space is now filled to the top with the works of art, near-art, non-art, anti-art, pseudo-art and you-name-it that make up this survey of what is going on just now.” —The New York Times
“. . . an energetic attempt to encompass a broad spectrum of styles and methods and ideas—particularly the new ideas—that now determine the forms that art is given, and the exhibition does succeed in embracing a great diversity of statement.” —The New York Times
“We should not be surprised [. . .] that the Whitney show—which fills all five floors of the museum—takes a sort of liberal, all-things-to-all-men attitude toward the current art scene.” —The New York Times
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