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5 Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum is the foremost show­ The angular
case for American art of the 20th and 21st exterior of the
centuries. It was founded in 1930 by sculptor Whitney Museum
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney after the
Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down Floor 8
her collection of works by artists such as
Bellows and Hopper. From 1966, the Whitney
was located on the Upper East Side; it moved
to the present building designed, by Renzo
Piano, in 2015. The Whitney Biennial, held in
even years, is the most significant exhibition
of new trends in American art.

Library

Floor 7

Three Flags (1958)
Jasper Johns’s use of familiar objects
in an abstract form was influential
in the development of Pop Art.

Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Andy Warhol’s 1962 work is a
commentary on mass
production and monopoly.

Floor 5

Little Big Painting
The 1965 work by Roy
Lichtenstein is a comic
critique of Abstract
Expressionist painting.

Theater
Museum Guide
The sixth and seventh floors showcase pieces
from the museum’s collection – there is not a
permanent display, rather a constant rotation
Early Sunday Morning (1930) of works. Special, temporary exhibitions occupy
Edward Hopper’s paintings often convey the first, fifth and eighth floors.
the emptiness of American city life.

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