"Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection" Exhibition
The Whitney Museum of American Art
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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, including iconic paintings by artists such as Stuart Davis, Charles Sheeler, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as works by lesser-known artists. Co-curated by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas.
[Image: Max Weber "Chinese Restaurant", 1915. Oil on canvas, 40 × 48 in.]
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Schedule
from April 28, 2011 to September 18, 2011
Artist(s)
Stuart Davis, Charles Sheeler, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe et al.