An American Legacy, a Gift to New York
This exhibition brings together an enormously important group of gifts generously presented to the Whitney by members of its Board of Trustees, focusing on the formative works of artists who achieved national acclaim during the 1950s and 1960s. The presentation begins with the spontaneous, painterly gestures of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and the luminous Color Field paintings of Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. Popular imagery from the 1960s finds expression in the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, and in the everyday subject matter of Claes Oldenburg’s sculpture. The innovations arising from these two decades have exerted powerful influences on succeeding generations of artists. Luminaries such as Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly continue to work today; their recent works in this exhibition demonstrate the breadth of their development over the course of more than five decades.
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An American Legacy, a Gift to New York >>

21st Century Nudes
Cape Town artist, Evan Oberholster, sets the nude within contemporary culture.
The idea that clothes make the man has been around since the beginning of time, although it was Mark Twain who first made it a pithy saying, and went further to say that 'naked people have little or no effect on society'. This is a concept that Cape Town artist Evan Oberholster turns upside down, as he shows how society and nudity are inextricably intertwined. What Oberholster does is to deconstruct through his nude paintings of everyday people, the camouflage that clothing provides and to show how culture is not just a construct of clothing, language, belief, and behaviour. Culture exists also in nudity...
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The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections
His story is famous: brash Parisian banker-turned-artist leaves family to paint vivid scenes of indigenous people in Tahiti. Yet Paul Gauguin has been overlooked by the art world in recent decades. The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, which accompanies a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition (through October 20, 2002), remedies this omission with lively overviews of his travels and innovative working methods, and more than 200 reproductions of his paintings, drawings, prints, and wood carvings. Gauguin's fascination with "primitive" cultures and blocky, simplified figures began during sojourns to Brittany in the late 1880s. A visit to Martinique whetted his appetite for tropical settings, and in 1891 he set sail for the South Pacific. Numerous excerpts from Gauguin's self-aggrandizing letters and other writings reveal the intense pleasures he found far from home: "I muse on violent harmonies amid the intoxicating fragrances of nature."
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Andy Warhol Retrospective
Bringing together more than 200 works from the 1940s through 1986, including examples from such landmark series as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Marilyn, Jackie, Mao, Flowers, Disaster, and Self-Portraits.
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Warhol Catalogue Raisonne: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961-1963 >>
Andy Warhol : Series and Singles >>
Andy Warhol's Religious and Ethnic Roots >>
Andy Warhol Nudes >>
Andy Warhol Prints : A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987 >>
Andy Warhol, Priest : The Last Supper Comes in Small, .. >>