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Hopper to Mid-Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
on continuous view
Leonard & Evelyn Lauder Galleries, Floor 5
An entire century of American art can be seen through the rich holdings of the Whitney’s permanent collection. The first half of the exhibition chronicles the development of American art from the exuberant expressions of early twentieth-century realists to later modernist experiments in abstraction. Highlights of the exhibition include a special concentration of Edward Hopper paintings, George Bellows’s boxing masterpiece Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Georgia O’Keeffe’s sexually suggestive abstraction Music—Pink and Blue II (1919), and Joseph Stella’s paean to mechanization, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme (1939).
Edward Hopper, Railroad Sunset, 1929
Oil on canvas, 29 1/4 x 48 in. (74.3 x 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art‚ New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1170. Photograph by Bill Jacobson |
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