Whitney Museum of American Art

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…

an independent artist who began his career in the field of art in the early 1930’s and also continued into the late 1950’s. 2. Cornell worked with in several different types of works. He first began building his collage boxes; he built three dimensional sculptures, and he also painted murals using fresco styles of paints. 3. 4. He had four different styles, he used abstraction, he was a modernist, a surrealist and also he used the pop-art style in some of his works. The media that he used in…

new Whitney Museum of American Art. There has not been an exhibition in a New York museum in close to three decades. This exhibition provides an update on the artist who has stubbornly done his art master pieces the way he wants them to be. It is also some sort of inauguration of the Whitney’s district building because the old uptown address did not permit the exhibition before. Stella has painted since he was a teenager, so watching this exhibition would mean that more than 50 years of art…

O’Keeffe was American female artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous collaborations in art…

a repeat of history. Being to culturally sensitive can have negative impacts. Khan Academy (n.d.) states that cultural heritage is not only objects or traditions from our past, it is process of memory that will characterize human society. The Whitney museum in New York had a biennial exhibition consisting of contemporary…

different museums, such as Whitney Museum of American Art or the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She received a honorary Doctor of the Fine Arts degree in 2006 from the Corcoran Gallery. Mann received an award at VCCA’s 40th anniversary event at the Virginia Museum that was presented by board member Alex Nyerges. Her famous book, Hold Still, was nominated for the National Book Award (NBA) for nonfiction. Her work has been displayed in quite a few places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn…

born on July 5, 1940, in Monroe Washington. He has a brother, Martin Close. He had a mom and a dad. His hobbies and interests were creating art. His mom brought him to all of the art shows and stuff. His dad died when he was 11, and his mom fell with breast cancer. Close also had a kidney infection and landed him in bed for almost a year. So he had trouble doing art for almost a year. Chuck took up the…

John Farrer Winter Scene in Moonlight Visual Research Project Monica Whitney CREA 232 Art from the Fifteenth Century Professor Stavros March 22, 2015 Winter Scene in Moonlight is Henry Farrer’s first known watercolor painting. This painting was painted in 1869 and can be found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Henry Farrer used techniques from the Pre-Raphaelite Association to paint this drawing. This watercolor painting is of a…

is the expansion program that began in 1982 by his predecessor would not be completed until the summer of1991. (Oster287) These Financial Resources of the museum were a portion of the museum’s permanent collection. (Oster287) The Post-World War the Second was the portion of the museum’s permanent collection comparatively weak, and this museum was hampered by the public’s perception of it as the Guggenheim Family’s…

Thiebaud started his career in art as a commercial animation painter at Walt Disney Studios, drawing “in-betweener” on characters such as Goofy, Pinocchio, and Jimmy Cricket (Hurwitz). It wasn’t until the 1960’s, during the Pop era of Warhol, where Thiebaud started gaining prominence in the fine art field. Thiebaud has had numerous solo exhibitions including shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1971, Arizona's Phoenix Art Museum in 1976, the Walker Art Center in…