Whitney Museum of American Art (original building)
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Whitney Museum of American Art (original building); currently New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture | |
Location | 8–12 West 8th Street Manhattan, New York City[1][2] |
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Built | 1838 (original buildings) 1931 (remodeled into gallery and residence) 1936 (remodeled into museum)[3][4] |
Architect | Auguste L. Noel of Noel & Miller (1931 and 1936)[1] |
Architectural style | Neoclassical |
NRHP reference No. | 92001877 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 27, 1992[5] |
Designated NHL | April 27, 1992 [6] |
The Whitney Museum of American Art's original building is a collection of three 1838
In 1918, American artist and friend Robert Winthrop Chanler was commissioned to redesign the interior of the 8th Street property, adding an allegorical bas-relief ceiling, a 20-foot-high plaster and bronze fireplace, elaborate stained glass windows, and decorative screens.[9][10][11]
In 1929, when the
In the 1940s, plans to incorporate the collections of the Whitney into the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the 75th-anniversary celebration of the Met were unrealized.
The building is located within the
Image gallery
These photographs, from a 1937 museum publication, show the museum as it was at the time:[15]
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Sculpture gallery
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Staircase
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Painting gallery
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Doorway, circa 1937
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
- ISBN 1-57912-443-7; p.135.
- ^ a b c New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report v.1 (April 1969) p.151
- ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 17, 2007.
- ^ Whitney Museum of American Art (1937). Whitney Museum of American Art: history, purpose and activities, with a complete list of works in its permanent collection to June, 1937. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 3. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ Wolf, Justin. "The Whitney Museum of American Art". The Art Story. The Art Story Foundation. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ a b "A National Treasure, the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio". Senior Women Web. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Whitney Studio Ceiling". Architectural Conservation Laboratory (ACL) of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ a b Matero, Frank; Drapala, Lauren. "THE WHITNEY STUDIO CEILING: Examination, Analysis and Recommendation for Conservation" (PDF). Architectural Conservation Laboratory. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ a b "29: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture". Places where women made history. National Park Service. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
- ^ "Finding aid for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 75th Anniversary Committee records, 1945–1950", Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Berman, Avis (December 2, 1991). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture" (pdf). National Park Service.
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(help) and Accompanying 26 photos, exterior and interior, from 1906–1991 (10.1 MB) - ^ Whitney Museum of American Art: history, purpose and activities, with a complete list of works in its permanent collection to June, 1937 New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1937. Copyright not renewed.