The museum continued the tradition of the Museum of Non-Figurative Art, the first of its kind, which Solomon Guggenheim opened in the late 1930s in a specially rented apartment in Manhattan.
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The museum’s founder, wealthy heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney became interested in art after visiting Europe in the early twentieth century.
Unlike the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, it has a collection of international contemporary design since the 1950s. In fact, that’s when the museum was founded at the initiative of Eileen Osborne Webb
The financier and collector Leo Castelli, who emigrated to the United States shortly after World War II and later became a gallery owner, contributed in no small measure to the fact that American postwar
Critics willy-nilly compare two pillars of the gallery business – Leo Castelli and Larry Gagosian, whose influence on the modern art process is difficult to overestimate.