Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75
June 29–Sept 3, 2006
Installation view of Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 29–September 3, 2006). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
On the occasion of the Whitney's seventy-fifth anniversary, selected works from the museum's extensive collection of art in the United States fill Marcel Breuer's landmark building. Continuing the Whitney's founding mission to support new artists and emerging art forms, the exhibition proposes an active conversation between the present and the past though dynamic dialogues connecting works of art across all media, spanning the twentieth century to now.
Three of the Museum's main floors are organized around a core group of works, each focusing on a paradigmatic moment, or "flashpoint," in American art. The fourth floor is anchored by Minimalist works of the mid 1960s to early 1970s and explores ideas related to industrial production, materiality, and conceptual practices. The third floor takes Pop art as its focal point, with works from the 1960s installed within the context of a range of historical and contemporary developments, including those that address urbanism, consumerism, appropriation, and politics. The second floor is centered on art of the late 1940s and early 1950s when Abstract Expressionism was at its apex. Works investigating the transcendent and spiritual qualities in art circumnavigate this core.
The fifth floor galleries are dedicated to a large-scale presentation of works by Edward Hopper, whose legacy is intimately connected to the Whitney. The Whitney's Hopper works are supplemented by key loans, including such major paintings as the Art Institute of Chicago's Nighthawks and the Museum of Modern Art's New York Movie. Calder's Circus, one of the museum's most beloved works, is displayed in the Lobby Gallery, in a brand new installation.
The exhibition presents an unprecedented opportunity to showcase the depth and breadth of the Whitney's collection, while contextualizing contemporary works within an historical continuum of art in the United States. Full House also serves as a lab for experimentation, a way of seeing art through art to suggest new perspectives and meanings on the last seventy-five years of collecting at the Whitney while flashing forward to the next important chapter in its history.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of The Henry Luce Foundation.
Additional support is provided by Jack Rudin in honor of Beth Rudin DeWoody.
Artists
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Merry Alpern
5 works in the collection
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Richard Artschwager
46 works in the collection
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John Baldessari
40 works in the collection
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
6 works in the collection
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Robert Bechtle
4 works in the collection
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Larry Bell
6 works in the collection
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Wallace Berman
13 works in the collection
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Lee Bontecou
12 works in the collection
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Louise Bourgeois
32 works in the collection
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Margaret Bourke-White
12 works in the collection
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Stan Brakhage
3 works in the collection
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Chris Burden
5 works in the collection
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John Cage
11 works in the collection
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Alexander Calder
187 works in the collection
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Kristin Capp
6 works in the collection
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Vija Celmins
11 works in the collection
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John Chamberlain
8 works in the collection
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Larry Clark
75 works in the collection
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Chuck Close
43 works in the collection
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Joseph Cornell
8 works in the collection
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Stuart Davis
27 works in the collection
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Willem de Kooning
19 works in the collection
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Charles Demuth
11 works in the collection
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
12 works in the collection
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Lesley Dill
7 works in the collection
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Jim Dine
93 works in the collection
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Mark di Suvero
7 works in the collection
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Arthur Dove
8 works in the collection
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Elsie Driggs
6 works in the collection
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Carroll Dunham
68 works in the collection
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Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection
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William Eggleston
35 works in the collection
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Walker Evans
16 works in the collection
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Dan Flavin
26 works in the collection
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Helen Frankenthaler
11 works in the collection
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Robert Gober
49 works in the collection
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Nan Goldin
24 works in the collection
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Jack Goldstein
24 works in the collection
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
14 works in the collection
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Philip Guston
10 works in the collection
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Ann Hamilton
17 works in the collection
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David Hammons
5 works in the collection
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Duane Hanson
1 work in the collection
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Michael Heizer
7 works in the collection
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Robert Henri
8 works in the collection
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Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection
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Josephine Nivison Hopper
8 works in the collection
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Roni Horn
8 works in the collection
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Peter Hujar
41 works in the collection
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Christian Jankowski
1 work in the collection
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Jasper Johns
212 works in the collection
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Donald Judd
59 works in the collection
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Alex Katz
80 works in the collection
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Mike Kelley
27 works in the collection
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Ellsworth Kelly
44 works in the collection
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Mary Kelly
2 works in the collection
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William Klein
10 works in the collection
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Franz Kline
12 works in the collection
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Jeff Koons
8 works in the collection
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Barbara Kruger
6 works in the collection
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Louise Lawler
11 works in the collection
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Jacob Lawrence
16 works in the collection
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Zoe Leonard
17 works in the collection
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Barry Le Va
15 works in the collection
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Sherrie Levine
26 works in the collection
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Helen Levitt
12 works in the collection
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Norman Lewis
2 works in the collection
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Sol LeWitt
111 works in the collection
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Roy Lichtenstein
445 works in the collection
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Mark Lombardi
10 works in the collection
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Alvin Loving
2 works in the collection
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Man Ray
24 works in the collection
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Robert Mapplethorpe
19 works in the collection
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Christian Marclay
193 works in the collection
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Brice Marden
91 works in the collection
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Agnes Martin
25 works in the collection
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Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection
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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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Bruce Nauman
51 works in the collection
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Shirin Neshat
6 works in the collection
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Barnett Newman
8 works in the collection
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Cady Noland
3 works in the collection
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Georgia O'Keeffe
13 works in the collection
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Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection
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Gabriel Orozco
7 works in the collection
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Nam June Paik
29 works in the collection
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Gilles Peress
13 works in the collection
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Hirsch Perlman
13 works in the collection
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Elizabeth Peyton
11 works in the collection
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Paul Pfeiffer
6 works in the collection
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Adrian Piper
3 works in the collection
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Jackson Pollock
17 works in the collection
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Kenneth Price
6 works in the collection
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Richard Prince
57 works in the collection
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Martin Puryear
8 works in the collection
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Robert Rauschenberg
83 works in the collection
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Charles Ray
7 works in the collection
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Ad Reinhardt
42 works in the collection
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James Rosenquist
30 works in the collection
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Mark Rothko
7 works in the collection
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Edward Ruscha
563 works in the collection
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Robert Ryman
15 works in the collection
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David Salle
23 works in the collection
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Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection
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Allan Sekula
2 works in the collection
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Ben Shahn
13 works in the collection
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Charles Sheeler
31 works in the collection
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Cindy Sherman
25 works in the collection
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Laurie Simmons
39 works in the collection
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Aaron Siskind
68 works in the collection
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Robert Smithson
16 works in the collection
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Tony Smith
3 works in the collection
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Frederick Sommer
4 works in the collection
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Frank Stella
84 works in the collection
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Joseph Stella
21 works in the collection
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Joel Sternfeld
96 works in the collection
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Louis Stettner
11 works in the collection
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Clyfford Still
3 works in the collection
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Paul Strand
9 works in the collection
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Larry Sultan
14 works in the collection
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Anne Truitt
3 works in the collection
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Cy Twombly
11 works in the collection
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James Van Der Zee
8 works in the collection
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David Vestal
3 works in the collection
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Andy Warhol
974 works in the collection
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Robert Watts
5 works in the collection
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Carrie Mae Weems
12 works in the collection
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John Wesley
13 works in the collection
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Sue Williams
5 works in the collection
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Fred Wilson
4 works in the collection
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Jackie Winsor
2 works in the collection
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David Wojnarowicz
48 works in the collection
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Steve Wolfe
10 works in the collection