Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.
Leonard Alan Lauder is an American billionaire businessman and art collector.
Rachel Harrison is an American visual artist who is primarily known for her assemblage work and sculpture, but she has also engaged in performance art and drawing, and photography. Her work often incorporates elements of photography and found objects, sometimes layering abstract forms with industrially manufactured elements. She lives and works in New York.
Allen Ruppersberg is an American artist.
Judith Schaechter is a Philadelphia-based artist known for her work in the medium of stained glass. Her pieces often use symbolism from stained glass and Gothic traditions, but the distorted faces and figures in her work recall a 20th century German Expressionist painting style and her subject matter is secular. Shaechter's work often involves images that might be considered disturbing such as death, disease, or violence. Early Schaechter pieces, for example, such as King of Maggots and Vide Futentes make use of memento mori, symbols of death found in church architecture during medieval times.
Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator based in Wisconsin. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught for twenty-three years.
Corin Hewitt is an American artist. His work has been shown widely in the U.S. as well as Europe. He has had several US solo museum exhibitions including at the Whitney Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and The Seattle Art Museum. Hewitt has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. He is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Whitney MacMillan is an American heir and businessman. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of his family business, Cargill, from 1976 to 1995.
John Clague (1928–2004) was an American artist and sculptor.
Job is a bronze sculpture, created by American artist Judith Shea. It is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. The piece was created in 2005 and placed on loan at Herron School of Art and Design for the school's first Public Sculpture Invitational, held between May 2005 and August 2006. In 2008, Herron acquired Job, with financial support from Jane Fortune, Dr. Robert Hesse, William Fortune Jr., and Joseph Blakley.
Michael Loew was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City.
The year 2013 in art involves some significant events.
Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) was a New York City-based collective of American women artists and activists that formed in 1969. They seceded from the male-dominated Art Workers' Coalition (AWC), prompted by the Whitney Museum of American Art's 1969 Annual, which included only eight women out of the 143 featured artists shown. In 1970, WAR members sent letters to the Whitney Museum, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, demanding both museums change their policies to be more inclusive of women artists. That same year, the Ad Hoc Women Artists' Group formed and also concentrated on the discrimination of women in the Whitney Museum's annual survey exhibitions. These protest efforts led to an increase of women artists at the next Whitney Annual, rising from an average of 5 to 10% before 1969 to 22% in 1970. Also in this year, WAR sponsored "X to the 12th Power", the first all-women's exhibition in New York, held at Museum, an alternative exhibition space organized by American minimalist artists Carl Andre and Robert Morris. WAR, along with a group called Feminists in the Arts, also created the Women's Interart Center, the first alternative feminist space, where they established a graphics and silk-screen workshop taught by artist Jacqueline Skiles. By 1972, WAR abandoned their efforts to change museum policies and focused more on consciousness-raising of the struggles of women artists.
Victor George Kord American painter and educator. He currently works and exhibits in New York City. He is professor emeritus of painting at Cornell University Department of Art after serving as art department chair at three major universities.
Richard Nonas is an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor. He lives and works in New York City.
Judith Murray is an American artist. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1962 and an MFA in 1964, both from the Pratt Institute.
Julia Wachtel is an American painter. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Judith Rothschild (1921–1993) was an American abstract painter and philanthropist. Rothschild was born in New York city and studied art at Cranbrook Academy and at the Art Students League. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Phillips Collection.
