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In 1929, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected Whitney's offer of the gift of nearly 500 new artworks that she had collected, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art. [12] In 1931, she had architect Auguste L. Noel of the firm of Noel & Miller convert the three row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street into a gallery and ...
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
[15] [16] The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; [17] at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney. [18] The new museum opened ...
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected her offer in 1929 of a gift of new artworks, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1931 had architect Auguste L. Noel convert the three row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street into the museum's first home, as well as a residence for Whitney. [6] In 1954, the museum moved uptown ...
In 2015, the Museum opened its new 220,000-square-foot building designed by Renzo Piano in New York's Meatpacking District, doubling the size of its exhibition space as well as providing state-of-the-art theater, education and conservation facilities. Since that time, the Whitney has increased its annual attendance from 400,000 to 1.2 million ...
The Met Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ. ər / BROY-ər) [1] was a museum of modern and contemporary art at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as a branch museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as the Met) from 2016 to 2020.
Sculpture Annual (1970) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [18] Whitney Biennial (1973) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [19] Rooms (1976) P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York [20] Nine Artists: Theodoran Awards (1977) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY [21] Architectural Analogues (1978) Whitney ...
Warren was born in New York City on January 29, 1864. He was one of nine children born to George Henry Warren I (1823–1892) and Mary Caroline (née Phoenix) Warren (1832–1901). [2] His siblings included Lloyd Warren, who was also an architect, [3] and George Henry Warren II, [4] a stockbroker who was the father of Constance Whitney Warren. [5]