“Untitled” (America) | Art & Artists

Exhibition works

An orange figure sitting in a field of green and blue.

1

Kay WalkingStick, April Contemplating May, 1972

Abstract painting with red brushstrokes on a blue background, creating a textured, mosaic-like pattern.

2

Alma Thomas, Mars Dust, 1972

A string of lit lightbulbs draped on the right side of a window overlooking water and a clear blue sky.

3

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America), 1994

A portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney lounging on a couch.

4

Robert Henri, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916

Red building with green storefronts, a barber pole, and a fire hydrant on a sunny day with long shadows.

5

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930

A vibrant painting depicts a bustling nighttime street scene of an African American community in an urban setting. A glowing street lamp casts a blue hue over the scene, in which a diverse group of musicians play brass instruments and tambourines, people dance, and others converse. A tall man with exaggerated features stands on a pedestal that reads "Jesus Saves," playing a trumpet. To the right, a woman in a green dress and red stilettos walks a small white dog past an elderly man with a cane. In the background, buildings with lighted windows reveal more onlookers, including a market storefront with meat hanging in the window, a house with a front porch where a woman and a child observe the scene, and an apartment building with residents peering out.

6

Archibald John Motley Jr., Getting’ Religion, 1948

Young boy standing next to a seated woman

7

Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, 1926–c. 1936

8

Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, 1970

Several abstract sculptures made of stone, wood, and metal are displayed in a bright, modern gallery space.

9

Isamu Noguchi Gallery

Large white flower with layered petals and a cluster of small shapes in the center, surrounded by green leaves.

10

Georgia O’Keeffe, The White Calico Flower, 1931

Four people with tools work together under leafy branches, while another person stands alone near mountains in the distance.

11

Aaron Douglas, Mural Study for Cravath Hall, Fisk University, 1929

Close up view of smokestacks

12

Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh, 1927

An angular painting of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking up towards the tower. The perspective is unrealistic, and almost abstract, and filled with blues and greens and grays.

13

Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939

Soldiers and guns in an abstract painting by Jacob Lawrence.

14

Jacob Lawrence,War Series, 1946–47

A wooden bench sits in front of several framed paintings displayed on white gallery walls.

15

Fritz Scholder, Massacre at Wounded Knee II, 1970

16

Robert Rauschenberg, Satellite, 1955

Art gallery room with several modern paintings on white walls and a wooden bench in the center.

17

Marisol, Diptych, 1971

18

Jasper Johns, Racing Thoughts, 1983

Two large modern art pieces hang in a gallery; one is colorful with text, the other has repeated portraits.

19

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983

Stylized painting of two figures in sunglasses with red outlines against a black background.

20

Rosalyn Drexler, Marilyn Pursued by Death, 1963

21

Mark Rothko, Four Darks in Red, 1958

22

Norman Lewis, American Totem, 1960

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.

23

Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958–66

Large abstract painting with soft colors hangs on a white wall; string lights are placed near a window.

24

Zilia Sánchez, Eros, 1976/1998