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Whitney Museum of American Art
Colloquially known as “The Whitney,” this museum was founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a socialite, sculptor, and art patron. After years of gathering art created by undervalued American artists for years (especially women), she offered to donate the pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929, but the institution declined.
Undeterred, Whitney established her own museum the following year, housed in a converted space that had originally been three row houses in Greenwich Village, and with her assistant Juliana R. Force at the helm.
The museum moved to a location connected to the Museum of Modern Art in 1954, and again in 1966 to the Upper East Side. It moved to its current location in the 21st century, with the new building opening officially in 2015.
What began as a collection of 600 paintings eventually grew, and today it holds 25,000 artworks, including work by Georgia O’Keeffe, Keith Haring, Edward Hopper, and Man Ray.
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