Early Sunday Morning
Hopper reduced a New York street scene to quiet storefronts and long shadows. The Whitney purchased this oil painting with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
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Early Sunday Morning, Edward Hopper, 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art. Detail crops from Wikimedia Commons, which identifies this faithful reproduction as public domain in the United States; rights elsewhere may differ. The Whitney credits the Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper and Artists Rights Society; file metadata names photographers Robert Gerhardt and Denis Y. Suspitsyn and carries a Whitney digital-image copyright notice. The other collection images illustrate Lensmark and are not Whitney works.
What the Whitney Museum of American Art collection covers
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1930 to support American artists. Its current building at 99 Gansevoort Street opened in 2015. History
The collection spans twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art, from paintings and sculpture to works on paper, photography and installation art.
Its collection strengths include twentieth-century American art, contemporary American art, and the Whitney Biennial.
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Hollywood Africans
Basquiat explored stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry. Douglas S. Cramer gave this acrylic and oil-stick painting to the Whitney.
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Tombstones
Lawrence pictured Harlem residents outside an apartment building and a tombstone shop. The work is an opaque watercolor on paper, accession 43.14.
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