The Whitney Museum Of American Art

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The Whitney Museum of American Art was the first museum that devoted its collections entirely to modern American artists while they were still alive.

Founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with her own art collection of 600 pieces. Whitney’s collection of non-traditional American artists had been turned down by other art museums, so she promptly started her own. The Whitney Museum of American Art was launched in Greenwich Village with works by George Bellows, Edward Hopper, John Sloan and Thomas Hart Benton. (more…)