Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art is a museum for 20th-century American art in New York, United States.

Whitney Museum of American ArtThe museum was founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1931 with 700 works from private property. Since 1966, the museum is housed at the current location in a building, which was designed by the American architect Marcel BreuerHong Creole. In the years 2000 to 2010 the museum worked to extensive expansion plans. Designs from well known architects such asRem Koolhaas/ OMA, Michael Graves and Renzo Piano have not led to results. ==The collection[ Edit] == The permanent collection, consisting of paintings, drawings, graphics, video, photos and sculptures counts more than 12,000 works.

To the collection include works by well-known artists such as Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Edward Hopper. ==Whitney Biennial[ Edit] == The museum organizes every two years the Whitney Venice Biennial. This outline tent show up for young art began as an annual event in 1932 and continued as Biennalein 1973.