Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney Collection in Manhattan

The Selections Exhibit is an eclectic mix of artwork from artists that Modern and Contemporary Art fans will recognize.





Music, Pink & Blue No.2
by Georgia O'Keeffe

 O'Keeffe's time in the
Southwest is seen

Summer Days.

Hudson River Landscape

by David Smith

Brooklyn Bridge

Variation on an Old Theme

by Joseph Stella

I am excited to see this painting.  My book on American Art features Stella's The Bridge painting.  Throughout his career, Joseph Stella returned to this subject and painted it using different lighting and different painting techniques.

Bathroom
by Roy Lichtenstein

I am most familiar with
this comic strip works.

Seven A.M.

by Edward Hopper

A simple, small town scene and next, a New York City neighborhood....  Hopper is best known for urban scenes.

Apartment Houses, East River

by Edward Hopper 

Midnight Winter by Rockwell

 Kent is an example of his

preference for remote scenes.

Untitled by Beauford Delaney
depicts a simple home.

$199 Television by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol by Alice Neel

His torso has scars & he
looks frail.

I don't remember Andy Warhol getting shot.  The woman who shot him, Valerie Solanas, believed he was trying to steal her SCUM Manifesto and control her life.  Warhol was seriously injured and lived with pain for 19 years following the shooting.  He became frightened of germs and illness and did his best to avoid hospitals.  It has been said that avoiding preventative care and waiting too long to have his removed gallbladder removed helped shorten Warhol's life.

Poker Night (from A Streetcar

Named Desire)

by Thomas Hart Benton

I recognize the vivid colors and fluid action of Benton.  Eric and I became acquainted with his work in the Missouri State Capitol.

My Egypt by Charles Demuth

reminds me of Precisionist

artist Charles Sheeler.

Industrial subjects portrayed with clean, crisp lines show an emotional detachment from the subject.

Buildings, Lancaster

by Charles Demuth

includes the colors

of a street scene.

Visitors step forward to see
the details in Two Maps
by Jasper Johns.

Three Flags by Jasper Johns,

was painted in 1958, one year

before Alaska & Hawaii

 were admitted to the

Union.

Eric & a modern sculpture

on the Whitney's terrace

 The northerly view from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Eric and I enjoyed David Wojnarowicz's activists paintings and viewing different works by favorite Modern Artists at The Whitney.