3401 x 5120 px | 28,8 x 43,3 cm | 11,3 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
17 settembre 2017
Altre informazioni:
Whitney Museum of American Art www.whitney.org . 945 Madison Avenue corner of 75th Street Telephone 212-570-3600 . ( Wed - Sat 11am- 6pm / Fri 1 -9pm / Sat-Sun 11am- 6pm / $ 18US adults / students , 19-25 years and > 62 years 12US $ / <18 years free / Fri from 6-9pm with free admission donation ) . It was founded in 1931 with 700 works of art by Gertrude Vanderbilt after the Metropolitan rejected his collection of works by contemporary American artists . It forms one of the world's most important collections of American art of the twentieth century. The permanent collection of 12, 000 works including paintings , sculptures , multimedia installations, drawings, prints and photographs and growing. Apart from the hopper and collections Marsh, the Whitney has the largest collection of works by Alexander Calder in museums , ranging from the ever popular pieces Circus Surreal Calder and inspiration 1940 , to phones large scale and stable . Others in background concentrations of major holdings include Marsden Hartley , Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield, Gaston Lachaise , Louise Nevelson , and Agnes Martin.
