Whitney Kids Art Challenge

These art projects are designed especially for kids and grown-ups to do together. All of the activities are based on works of art in the Whitney's collection. They introduce you to some of the diverse ways that artists think and work, and we hope they inspire the artist in you too! Share your creations with us using the hashtag #whitneykids. 

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Print Your Veggies

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (SF.045c, Potato print branches, purple/blue), 1951–52

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Two hands holding a pineapple made of soft materials.

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Sock Sculptures

Claes Oldenburg, Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich), 1963

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Two hands holding a box each side showing a self portrait made of paper, curled ribbon, and drawings.

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Six-Sided Self-Portrait

Marisol, Women and Dog, 1963–64

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Two hands hold a black paper with the top layer scratched away revealing bright lines.

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Scratch it Out

Charles Henry Alston, The Family, 1955

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Three American flags on top of each other.

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Image Transformation

Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958

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An ivory armchair engulfed in soft globular shapes.

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Stuff It!

Yayoi Kusama, Accumulation, 1963

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A work by Willem de Kooning. An abstract painting of a woman with a bicycle depicted in vivid colors

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Dramatic Composition

Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952–1953

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Plants and flowers next to a fence and house.

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Nature’s Mood

Charles Burchfield, Noontide in Late May, 1917

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Toy Collection

Mike Kelley, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987

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A Black man stands against a white backdrop wearing aviator sunglasses and a white suit.

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Double Portrait

Barkley L. Hendricks, Steve, 1976

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An installation view of a painting.

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Portal Book

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Portals, 2016

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An orange septehedron-shaped canvas

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Geometric Composition

Alvin Loving, Septehedron 34, 1970

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A painting of three figures carrying large round objects up an incline.

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Visual Story

Jacob Lawrence, War Series: Another Patrol, 1946

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A human-shaped costume with ornate decorations.

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Dress Up and Make Noise!

Nick Cave, Soundsuit #20, 2005

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Fabric banner with black bird grasping anatomical heart above pencil and microphone. Text in cursive reads "hahaha."

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Create a Banner

Cauleen Smith, The Comedians, 2017

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Stage a Performance

Puppies Puppies, Liberty (Liberté), 2017

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Painting of trees and houses.

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Mood Picture

Oscar Bluemner, A Situation in Yellow, 1933

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Close up view of smokestacks

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Unexpected Beauty

Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh, 1927

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Colorful painting of flowers and a sky.

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Birthday Self-Portrait

Florine Stettheimer, Sun, 1931

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A sculpture of a man and woman dancing.

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Let’s Dance!

Elie Nadelman, Tango, 1920–1924

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Illustrated portrait of a person in a frame.

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Family Portrait

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Wall of Ambassadors, 2017

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Line, Shape, Blob

Elizabeth Murray, Children Meeting, 1978

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Teeny Tiny Room

Charles Ray, Puzzle Bottle, 1995

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Abstract sculpture of flat interlocking pieces of stone

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Rhyme Sculpture

Isamu Noguchi, Humpty Dumpty, 1946

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Dream World

Agnes Pelton, Sea Change, 1931

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Build a Bridge

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

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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.

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Start from the Center

Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958-66

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A billiards table sits in the desert angled towards a sky filled with with clouds of starkly different colors. There is a blue mountain range in the distance.

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Surreal World

Man Ray, La Fortune, 1938

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A painting of snow falling sideways across a landscape with the dark outlines of buffalo, and a tree to the left side in the foreground.

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Layered Landscape

Horace Pippin, The Buffalo Hunt, 1933

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A black wall with white drawn lines.

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Drawing Instructions

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #289, 4th wall: 24 lines from the center, 12 lines from the midpoint of each of the sides, 12 lines from each corner, 1976

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A painting with a yellow background, words written and crossed out, and three faces.

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Create a Tag!

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983

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A sculpture of long white poles with blue inserts at the top.

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Family Sculpture

Louise Bourgeois, Quarantania, 1941

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A portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney lounging on a couch.

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Strike a Pose!

Robert Henri, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916

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Still Life Remix

Stuart Davis, Owh! in San Pao, 1951

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An installation view of a work by Raul de Nieves. Beaded shoes in front of a stained glass window

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Window Installation

Raúl de Nieves, Beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end, 2017

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An image of the Whitney galleries with small wire sculptures

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Circus Character

Alexander Calder, Calder’s Circus, 1926–31

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A pop art rendition of a bathroom.

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Bathroom Portrait

Roy Lichtenstein, Bathroom, 1961

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Hopper's iconic painting of empty street scene.

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Window View

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930

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Colorful artwork of woman faces by Andy Warhol.

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Many Faces

Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull 36 Times, 1963

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An abstract landscape in bright green, orange, and red.

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Imaginary Landscapes

Shara Hughes, In the Clear, 2016

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A series of brightly colored, nested squares

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Geometric Composition

Frank Stella, Gran Cairo, 1962

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A brown terracotta sculpture of a woman's head down to the neck sits on a white plinth. The eyes of the sculpture are cut out.

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Portrait Sculpture

Elizabeth Catlett, Head, 1947

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A painting of a boy and a dog by Laura Owens.

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Unfolding Adventures

Laura Owens, Untitled, 2014

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An installation of projections on the wall of animated clouds in the sky.

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Game World

Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds, 2002

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A painting of an animal skull in the sky above flowers and desert landscape.

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Souvenir Sketch

Georgia O'Keeffe, Summer Days, 1936

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Mesh wires shaped into a long, fluid blob, like lava in a lava lamp.

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Continuous Line

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.270, Hanging Six-Lobed, Complex Interlocking Continuous Form within a Form with Two Interior Spheres) 1955, refabricated 1957–1958

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4-Color Composition

Lee Krasner, The Seasons, 1957

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