An American legacy, a gift to New York
Subtitle: recent acquisitions from the Board of Trustees
By: Marla Prather, Dana Ashley Miller.
Contributors: Prather, Marla.; Miller, Dana.
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Whitney Museum of American Art -- Catalogs.; Whitney Museum of American Art. -- Exhibitions.; Art, American -- 20th century -- Catalogs.; Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "Accompanying an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, An American Legacy, A Gift to New York records an unprecedented gift of postwar art. The gift, from fifteen Whitney trustees, encompasses eighty-seven key works by twenty-three of the most prominent artists to come of age in the 1950s and 1960s, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.