Located in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1931.The museum houses collections of 20th-century American art. It has a permanent collection of more than 10,000 works encompassing paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints and photographs. The collection includes works from the Ashcan School and post-World War II era and works of early modernists, such as Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler. It also has a wide range of sculptures and paintings, including Edward Hopper's "Second Story Sunlight," David Smith's "Lectern Sentinel," Franz Kline's "Mahoning," Willem de Kooning's "Door to the River," and Stuart Davis' "The Paris Bit." It has a library, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library that contains research collections, books and exhibition catalogs and files on American art and artists. The library s catalog, WhitneyCat, is available online and its visitors also have access to a wide variety of electronic resources, including periodical indices, a large auction database and bibliographies.
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