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Happy Memorial Day! #Repost @whitneymuseum ・・・ “Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”—#JasperJohns, born #otd in 1930. Our collaboration with @philamuseum on a major Johns retrospective opens in 2020! 🇺🇸 *** [Jasper Johns’s Three Flags (1958) installed in 2017 in Where We Are: Selections from the #WhitneyCollection, 1900–1960. 📷 by Ian Allen]

#Repost @whitneymuseum (@get_repost) ・・・ Today we celebrate the birthday of #WhitneyCollection artist #ElizabethCatlett, born #otd in 1915. This work, titled My right is a future of equality with other Americans, marks the conclusion of Catlett's powerful series The Negro Woman. Comprised of fifteen linoleum cuts, the series commemorates the courage, strength, and leadership of African American women. Catlett hoped her art would stimulate social change: “Art for me now must develop from a necessity within my people. It must answer a question, or wake somebody up or give a shove in the right direction—our liberation.” [Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), My right is a future of equality with other Americans, 1947, printed 1989, from the series The Negro Woman, 1946-47 (re-titled The Black Woman, 1989). Linoleum cut: sheet, 10 5/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.2 × 19.1 cm); image, 9 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (23.2 × 15.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 95.203 Art © Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY]

#Repost @whitneymuseum ・・・ "Abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint." —#GeorgiaOKeeffe, born #onthisday in 1887. #WhitneyCollection [O'Keeffe's Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 (1918) alongside Agnes Pelton's Sea Change (1931) on view in Where We Are.]

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos @rashidjohnson #rashidjohnson #whitneycollection #artinstallation #imagesruletheworld

✊🏼✌🏼👌🏼 An Incomplete History of Protest exhibition @whitneymuseum #WhitneyCollection (at Whitney Museum of American Art)

#Repost @whitneymuseum (@get_repost) ・・・ #AndyWarhol was born #onthisday in 1928! Warhol based $199 Television, his earliest painting in the #WhitneyCollection, on small black-and-white ads from the newspaper. See it on view in Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1900–1960. 📺

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#Repost @whitneymuseum with @repostapp ・・・ For "In Phillis Wheatley I proved intellectual equality in the midst of slavery," #ElizabethCatlett depicted Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book of poetry (Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773), with her quill poised over a fresh page. The women standing behind her with shackled hands offer a biting reminder that Wheatley achieved prominence despite being enslaved by a white family in Boston. Her writings inspired many who were active in the movement to end slavery. *** This week, we're featuring prints from Elizabeth Catlett’s The Negro Woman series. The entire series will go on view later this spring as part of a new permanent collection exhibition. You can see them all by tapping the link in our profile. #WhitneyCollection #BlackHistoryMonth *** [Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), In Phillis Wheatley I proved intellectual equality in the midst of slavery, 1946, printed 1989. From the series The Negro Woman. Linoleum cut, sheet: 10 9/16 × 7 9/16 in. (26.8 × 19.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 95.196. Art © Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY]