Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Paul Cézanne · 1893
Whitney Museum
New York
American art of the last hundred years, with Hopper's Early Sunday Morning and Calder's wire circus, beside the High Line. Thirty dollars, and free every day for anyone twenty-five or under.
What to see
Early Sunday Morning
Edward Hopper, 1930. Early Sunday Morning is a 1930 oil painting by American artist Edward Hopper. The painting portrays the small businesses and shops of Seventh Avenue in New York City shortly after sunrise.
Second Story Sunlight
Edward Hopper, 1960. Second Story Sunlight is a 1960 oil painting by the American artist Edward Hopper. It depicts two women of different ages on the second-story balcony of a white house.
Cirque Calder
Alexander Calder, 1926. Cirque Calder is an artistic rendering and performance of a circus created by the American artist Alexander Calder through the late 1920s. It involves wire models rigged to perform the various functions of the circus performers they represent, from contortionists to sword eaters to lion tamers.
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Paul Cézanne · 1893
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (English: Curtain, Pitcher, and a Fruit Bowl or Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl) is an oil on canvas painting created c. 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne.
Three Flags
Jasper Johns, 1958. Three Flags is a 1958 painting by American artist Jasper Johns. Held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York since 1980, Three Flags has been described as a "landmark of 20th-century art".
Dempsey and Firpo
George Bellows · 1924
Dempsey and Firpo (sometimes referred to as Dempsey Through The Ropes) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1923 to 1924 by the American artist George Bellows. It depicts the September 14, 1923, boxing match between American Jack Dempsey and Argentine Luis Firpo.
Collections
The museum displays paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installation art, video, and photography. The original 600 works in the permanent collection grew to about 1,300 with the opening of the second building in 1954. This number grew to around 2,000 following its move to the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in 1966. It began collecting photography in 1991. Today, spanning the late 19th century to the present, the collection contains more than 25,000 artworks by upwards of 3,500 artists.
Artists
United States · 1891–1948
American · 1882–1925 · Ashcan School
United States · 1858–1924
American · 1865–1929 · French Realism
Ottoman Empire · 1904–1948
United States · 1873–1939
United States · 1871–1944
United States · 1897–1946
Artworks
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Robert Henri · 1916
Painting
Patrick Henry Bruce · 1921
Old Canal Port
Oscar Florianus Bluemner · 1914
Central Park, New York
Maurice Prendergast · 1901
Hudson Street
George Ault · 1932
Parade, Washington Square
William James Glackens · 1912
Big Fall
1984
My Egypt
1927
Sources
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