Whitney Museum
United States · founded 1931
The Whitney Museum of American Art (known informally as "The Whitney") is a modern and contemporary American art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The institution was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named. The Whitney focuses on collecting and preserving 20th- and 21st-century American art.
- Visitors a year
- 0.9MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1931Founded
What to see
Early Sunday Morning
Edward Hopper, 1930.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Second Story Sunlight
Edward Hopper, 1960.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Cirque Calder
Alexander Calder, 1926.
At the museum · Photo by Hermann Landshoff, CC BY-SA 3.0
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Paul Cézanne, 1893.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Three Flags
Jasper Johns, 1958.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Dempsey and Firpo
George Bellows, 1924.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on whitney.org before you travel.
Getting there
99 Gansevoort Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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