There’s still time to explore ‘Edward Hopper’s New York’ at the Whitney

Edward Hopper, ‘Early Sunday Morning,’ 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 by 60 1/4in. (89.4 by 153cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edward Hopper, ‘Early Sunday Morning,’ 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 by 60 1/4in. (89.4 by 153cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edward Hopper, ‘Early Sunday Morning,’ 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 by 60 1/4in. (89.4 by 153cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NEW YORK — Through March 5, 2023, the Whitney Museum of American Art will present Edward Hopper’s New York, an exhibit focused on the artist’s relationship with the famed metropolis.

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Roy Lichtenstein’s family donates late artist’s studio to Whitney

Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Lichtenstein’s Washington Street Studio, circa 1992. Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, courtesy the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Archives. Photograph © Christine de Grancy
Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Lichtenstein’s Washington Street Studio, circa 1992. Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, courtesy the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Archives. Photograph © Christine de Grancy
Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Lichtenstein’s Washington Street Studio, circa 1992. Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, courtesy the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Archives. Photograph © Christine de Grancy

NEW YORK — Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of Roy Lichtenstein, and Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, have announced that the Lichtenstein family has promised to donate the late artist’s studio building to the museum. The Whitney, which since moving downtown in 2015 has been a neighbor of the studio, operating four blocks north on Gansevoort Street, will adapt the space to serve as the first permanent home of its widely influential Independent Study Program, which was founded in 1968.

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