I am in N-100 and the lecture was about culture. We started talking about art and we were shown a picture of the Whitney Museum of American Art building in New York City and the building really caught my attention so I wanted to find out more about it. I think it is neat how the shape of the building is not a perfect square and it almost looks like a tetris piece. Also we discussed how if a person were to stand under it; the building would look like it was falling down on you. The founder of the building was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and it was founded in 1931. The museum only had 700 art objects when it first opened. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney made the most of their money by buying artwork from living artists and not well known artists. Also in 1932 the Whitney would buy artwork from the "Museum’s Annual and Biennial exhibits.” The Whitney Museum had been devoted to having a selection of artwork that gives an overall image of “twentieth-century American art.”
website where I found information from http://www.whitney.org/www/collection/history.jsp
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