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Whitney Museum Opens New Home On Madison Ave
The Whitney Museum of American Art settled into its new seven story, six million dollar home on Madison Avenue at 75th Street with a black tie opening. The inaugural exhibit Art of the United States 1670 1966 gathers works by 275 artists including Copley Stuart Homer Eakins Warhol Johns and Pollocks and De Kooning. The building resembles an inverted ziggurat designed by Marcel Breuer and opens to the public with a 50 cent admission.
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New York
Whitney Museum of American Art
G. Macculloch Miller
Madison Avenue
75Th Street
Advanced Art Review
United States
Lloyd Goodrich
Gertrude ‘Vanderbilt Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney
Reel
Greenwich Village
West 54Th Street
Stuart
Homer
Copley
Eakins
de Kooning
Rothko
Hans Hofmann