1. Planning to attend American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe? Listen to the audio guide, highlighting selected works on view like Joseph Stella’s Luna Park.

    Planning to attend American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe? Listen to the audio guide, highlighting selected works on view like Joseph Stella’s Luna Park.

  2. Join or renew at the Curate Your Own Membership level or above to receive this stunning, limited edition American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe booklet.

    Join or renew at the Curate Your Own Membership level or above to receive this stunning, limited edition American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe booklet.

  3. Wherever you are ushering in the New Year tonight, hope it’s as lovely as Oscar Bluemner’s Last Evening of the Year. Oscar Bluemner (1867–1938), Last Evening of the Year, c. 1929. Oil on academy board mounted on wood panel, 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Juliana Force 31.115

    Wherever you are ushering in the New Year tonight, hope it’s as lovely as Oscar Bluemner’s Last Evening of the Year.

    Oscar Bluemner (1867–1938), Last Evening of the Year, c. 1929. Oil on academy board mounted on wood panel, 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.8 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Juliana Force 31.115

  4. The Whitney Museum is New York’s go-to institution for the crazy-quilt history of early- and mid-20th-century American art, and its new permanent-collection display, “American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe,” is one of its best in years.

    — The New York Times’s Roberta Smith on American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe.

  5. American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe opens today. Each gallery on the Museum’s fifth-floor will be devoted to presentations of the leading artists of the first half of the twentieth century, providing an in-depth look at the beloved work of Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and other icons of the Whitney’s collection. Charles Demuth (1883–1935), My Egypt, 1927. Oil on fiberboard, 35 3/4 × 30 in. (90.8 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney   31.172

    American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe opens today. Each gallery on the Museum’s fifth-floor will be devoted to presentations of the leading artists of the first half of the twentieth century, providing an in-depth look at the beloved work of Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and other icons of the Whitney’s collection.

    Charles Demuth (1883–1935), My Egypt, 1927. Oil on fiberboard, 35 3/4 × 30 in. (90.8 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney   31.172

  6. An entire gallery will be devoted to the work of Alexander Calder in American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, opening December 22. archivesofamericanart: Artists: They’re Just Like Us! They chat on the phone! Alexander Calder, 1956 / Foto Mercurio, photographer. Alexander Calder papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    An entire gallery will be devoted to the work of Alexander Calder in American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, opening December 22.

    archivesofamericanart:

    Artists: They’re Just Like Us!

    They chat on the phone!

    Alexander Calder, 1956 / Foto Mercurio, photographer. Alexander Calder papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

  7. Opening December 22, American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe will feature works by eighteen leading artists from the first half of the twentieth century. Individual galleries will be devoted to Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, and others at the core of the Museum’s collection. Joseph Stella (1877–1946), The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939. Oil on canvas, 70 × 42 in. (177.8 × 106.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 42.15

    Opening December 22, American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe will feature works by eighteen leading artists from the first half of the twentieth century. Individual galleries will be devoted to Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, and others at the core of the Museum’s collection.

    Joseph Stella (1877–1946), The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939. Oil on canvas, 70 × 42 in. (177.8 × 106.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 42.15