Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known for her role as an art patron and the founder of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Yet she also had a significant career as a sculptor, exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe and receiving major commissions and prizes. Join Dr. Ellen E. Roberts as she reassesses […]
The Whitney staff recently had the chance to visit Linda Raynolds at her studio. She introduced us to the tools she uses to create her sculptures and showed us her extensive collection of art and source material. We also learned more about what inspires her. Animals have consumed Raynolds’s interest for as long as she […]
Tracy Linder grew up on a family farm and received her MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Linder now lives in south central Montana. Her sculptures and installations address our integral connection to the land, the sanctity of our food sources, and the innate survival skills of all species. Her works have been […]
The ancient technique of casting sculpture in bronze took a fresh turn in 1849, when Henry Kirke Brown created Choosing of the Arrow, one of the first bronze sculptures cast in the United States. The trajectory of bronze casting in America can be traced from statuettes, like Brown’s classical nude, manufactured for an emerging class […]
The Whitney Western Art Museum houses studio collections of four western American artists: Frederic Remington, W.H.D. Koerner, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Alexander Phimister Proctor. Each of these collections are individually significant, and together, they form the cornerstones of the Whitney’s broad and deep holdings of artwork. Each has the capacity to inspire and astound causal […]
The Whitney Western Art Museum presents a special exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer and author Laura Wilson. That Day: Pictures of the American West, organized by the Amon Carter Museum and the artist, highlights Wilson’s photographs made in the American West over three decades. The exhibition includes photographs of outsiders, law enforcers, cowboys, debutantes, […]