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Whitney Museum of American Art


  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

His [Edward Hopper] pictures were conceived by a complex process that included first hand observation, memory, severe simplification, and a creative synthesis of all elements into imagery that had universal and permanent meaning. He was a highly conscious composer, and through command of massive form, full-bodied color and all-revealing light, he achieved plastic designs of great substance, power and completeness. - Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1977

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Objects of Art

WorkTypeCreatorAsNotedIn
A Woman in the Sun Painting
American Village Painting
Apartment Houses, East River Painting
Apres-midi de juin Painting
Blackhead, Monhegan Painting
Cobb's Barns, South Truro Painting
Early Sunday Morning Painting
El Palacio Painting
High Road Painting
House Tops Etching
Jo in Wyoming Painting
Jo Painting Painting
Le pavillon de Flore Painting
Le Pont Royal Painting
Le Quai des Grands Augustins Painting
Les lavoirs a Pont Royal Painting
Painter and Model Painting
Queensborough Bridge Painting
Railroad Crossing Painting
Railroad Sunset Painting
Road in Maine Painting
Second Story Sunlight Painting
Self-Portrait Painting
Seven AM Painting
Soir bleu Painting
South Carolina Morning Painting
Stairway Painting
Stairways Painting
Summer Interior Painting
The El Station Painting
The Locomotive Etching
The Wine Shop Painting

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1935/01/10 "East Wind Over Weehawken" is exhibited at the Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, November 27, 1934-January 10, 1935, No 38. East Wind Over Weehawken
1963/00/00
1966/00/00 Marcel Breuer Architect Designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton Smith, the third home for the Whitney Museum Of American Art opens, a modernist statement in a neighborhood of traditional limestone, brownstone, and brick row houses.
1966/00/00 Hamilton Smith Architect Designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton Smith, the third home for the Whitney Museum Of American Art opens, a modernist statement in a neighborhood of traditional limestone, brownstone, and brick row houses.
1966/00/00 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Benefactor Designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton Smith, the third home for the Whitney Museum Of American Art opens, a modernist statement in a neighborhood of traditional limestone, brownstone, and brick row houses.
1966/00/00

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Particulars for Whitney Museum of American Art:
Art Attribute American Art
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Architectural Style Brutalism
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Modern Movement
Museum Type Museum
Level of Significance National
Owner Private



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 24th September 1986

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Whitney Museum of American Art
Registry Address: 945--953 Madison Ave.
Registry Number: 86003824
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: Breuer,Marcel
Architectural Style: Modern movement
Contributing Buildings: 1
Certification: Determined eligible-owner objection
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1950-1974
Significant Year: 1963, 1966
Historic Function: Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Museum
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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