Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection

Apr 28–Sept 18, 2011

Exhibition works

Oscar Bluemner, Last Evening of the Year, c. 1929. Oil on board mounted on wood, 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of Juliana Force 31.115
John Steuart Curry (1897 1946). Baptism in Kansas, (1928). Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 × 50 1/4in. (102.2 × 127.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.159
Howard G. Cushing (1869–1916), Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, 1902. Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.162
Preston Dickinson (1881–1930), Industry, c. 1923. Oil on canvas, 30 × 24 1/4 in. (76.2 × 61.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.173
Rockwell Kent, The Trapper, 1921. Oil on canvas, 33 1/4 × 42 7/8 in. (84.5 × 108.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 31.258
Edward Laning (1906–1981), Fourteenth Street, 1931. Tempera on canvas, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; purchase 33.17
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), Interior, 1926. Oil on canvas, 33 × 22 in. (83.8 × 55.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.344
Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant, 1915. Oil, charcoal, and collaged paper on linen, 40 × 48 ⅛ in.