In the exhibition "Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection," the museum revisits its roots.
The institution will be known as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, in honor of the German art collector Jochen Zeitz, who is providing the museum's founding collection.
Using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, the museum put its founding collection of 232 works of European art before the public.
The first of them, "Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection," is up and running, and what a curious thing it is.
The Tate has been rich in his work since its founding collection, including the lovely Ophelia, drifting singing to her death, the gallery's single most popular painting.
Speaking of the Whitney, it's of some interest to compare that institution's version of early American Modernism, recently sampled in the exhibition "Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection," with the Met's.
The paintings, part of the museum's founding collection, date from the 18th century and illustrate the biography of Tsongkhapa (1357 to 1419), founder of the Gelug religious order of Tibetan Buddhism, whose most renowned member is the Dalai Lama.
In the meantime, it presents a series of shows drawn from its holdings, including "Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection," featuring works by Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, and Charles Sheeler, among many others.
The Newark Museum's founding collection was largely Japanese, with some additional examples of Chinese art pottery, and the opening display includes a handful of these first acquisitions, including three Chinese porcelain vases with single color glazes.
Ophelia was part of the founding collection of the gallery, presented by the sugar millionaire Sir Henry Tate in 1894, and has always been among its top 10 best-selling postcards.
