NEW YORK —The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it has acquired 300 works of art in the last six months. As a result of these acquisitions, 60 new artists and collectives have entered the collection.
Several of the acquisitions on emerging artists, including Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Carolina Caycedo, Lena Henke, Christine Sun Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ronny Quevedo, Clarissa Tossin and Willa Nasatir.
In addition, the Whitney deepened its commitment to artists already represented in the collection by adding works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Carol Bove, Bruce Conner, John Currin, Roe Ethridge, Nan Goldin, David Hammons, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Wu Tsang, David Wojnarowicz, Grant Wood, and others.
Chemi Rosado-Seijo Sur Norte America (Hablando con Torres Garcia), 2016 Paint fragments, glass, wood Overall: 13 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 1 5/8in. (33.7 × 26 × 4.1 cm) Purchase, with funds from Joshua Mack 2018.158
"The Whitney’s collection is a living, growing, and dynamic resource that allows us to continually reframe the history of American life and artistic culture. Our new acquisitions permit us to present new art histories, especially when we put those works on the Whitney’s walls so soon after acquiring them. Recent acquisitions such as Emma Amos’s Baby (1966) and Kay WalkingStick’s April Contemplating May (1972) are now displayed in Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s, and an important 1959 painting by Ed Clark will reenergize our understanding of mid-century painting when it hangs this summer as part of a new collection display,” noted David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection.
Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator added: “We’re thrilled that many of our recent acquisitions, particularly by artists new to the collection, arose through our reenergized emerging artist program. This continues our historical commitment to acquiring works by contemporary artists directly from our groundbreaking exhibitions and allows us to extend our dialogue with these artists as stewards of their work. We also are delighted that twelve of the artists in the upcoming WhitneyBiennial are already in the collection, including Meriem Bennani, Barbara Hammer, Simone Leigh, and Christine Sun Kim, whose works have just entered the collection for the first time.”
"The Whitney’s collection includes nearly 25,000 works created by some 3,500 artists during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This focus on the contemporary, along with a deep respect for artists’ creative process and vision, has guided the Museum’s collecting ever since its founding in 1930. The collection begins with Ashcan School painting and follows the major movements of the twentieth century in America, with strengths in modernism and Social Realism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, art centered on identity and politics that came to the fore in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary work.
Carolina Caycedo Cosmotarraya Rio Ribeira, 2016 Hand-dyed artisanal fishing net, lead weights, nylon fishing nets with foam floaters, sandals, synthetic-fiber pants, moss, string, and bottle with oil Overall: 88 1/2 × 31 3/4 × 25 3/4in. (224.8 × 80.6 × 65.4 cm) Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 2018.215
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