Whitney Museum of American Art
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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The original Whitney Museum of American Art building is a group of three 1838 rowhouses at 8-12 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney converted a MacDougal Alley stable into her studio in 1907 and connected it to 8 West 8th Street in 1914, exhibiting the work of young American artists there as the Whitney Studio Gallery. After the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected her 1929 offer of nearly 500 artworks, she founded the Whitney Museum of American Art.
the building
Chanler-designed studio interior. In 1918, artist Robert Winthrop Chanler redesigned the interior of the 8th Street property, adding an allegorical bas-relief ceiling, a 20-foot-high plaster and bronze fireplace, stained glass windows, and decorative screens.
the style
The rowhouses that make up the building are Neoclassical in style.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Treasure.
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