The Whitney Museum of American Art is nearly ready to open the doors to its brand spanking new Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking district. Out with the old, and in with the new. And that means it’s going to be rehanging its world-renowned permanent collection in 50,000-square-feet of indoor galleries, and 13,000-square-feet of outdoor exhibition space, for the inaugural exhibition “America Is Hard to See.”
Today, the museum announced the full list of artists for the show. It’s going to feature an impressive 650 artworks by a whopping 407 artists, with works dating from 1900 to the present. And that cryptic title? It’s taken from a pointy Robert Frost poem about the deception of Columbus’ discovery of America.
The new galleries, which will open to the public May 1 along with the show, are column-free (the largest space of its kind in New York City), and the permanent collection will reside on two full floors. There are plenty of old friends, and new discoveries promised in the show—though not everyone made the cut—and many of the works have only been shown a handful of times—some never.
Here is the full list of artists included in “America Is Hard to See,” on view May 1 through September 27 at The Whitney Museum’s new home at 99 Gasevoort Street.
Berenice Abbott
Michele Abeles
Vito Acconci
Ansel Adams
Robert Adams
Carl Andre
Kenneth Anger
Eleanor Antin
Diane Arbus
Cory Arcangel
David Armstrong
Richard Artschwager
Ruth Asawa
Asco
Charles Atlas
Lutz Bacher
Peggy Bacon
Jo Baer
Alex Bag
Malcolm Bailey
Lamar Baker
John Baldessari
Alvin Baltrop
Lewis Baltz
Matthew Barney
Richmond Barthé
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Romare Bearden
Cecil Beaton
Robert Beavers
Robert Bechtle
Ericka Beckman
Larry Bell
George Bellows
Lynda Benglis
Thomas Hart Benton
Wallace Berman
Bernadette Corporation
Judith Bernstein
Huma Bhabha
David Bienstock
Henry Billings
Ilse Bing
Dara Birnbaum
Nayland Blake
Oscar Bluemner
Peter Blume
Lee Bontecou
Jonathan Borofsky
Louise Bourgeois
Margaret Bourke-White
Carol Bove
Mark Bradford
Stan Brakhage
Robert Breer
Patrick Henry Bruce
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Charles Burchfield
Jacob Burck
Chris Burden
Scott Burton
Mary Ellen Bute
Paul Cadmus
John Cage
Alexander Calder
Cameron
Luis Camnitzer
Peter Campus
James Castle
Elizabeth Catlett
Maurizio Cattelan
Vija Celmins
John Chamberlain
Paul Chan
Sarah Charlesworth
Ayoka Chenzira
Chryssa
Larry Clark
Chuck Close
Sue Coe
Anne Collier
Bruce Conner
Joseph Cornell
Eldzier Cortor
Miguel Covarrubias
John Covert
Ralston Crawford
E.E. Cummings
Imogen Cunningham
John Currin
John Steuart Curry
Allan D’Arcangelo
James Daugherty
Emma Lu Davis
Stuart Davis
Willem de Kooning
Walter De Maria
Roy DeCarava
Jay DeFeo
Charles Demuth
Maya Deren
Mark di Suvero
Jim Dine
Arthur Dove
Thomas Downing
Elsie Driggs
Guy Pène Du Bois
Carroll Dunham
Sam Durant
Jimmie Durham
Mabel Dwight
William Eggleston
Nicole Eisenman
Wharton Esherick
Walker Evans
Kevin Jerome Everson
Loretta Fahrenholz
Andreas Feininger
Lyonel Feininger
Duncan Ferguson
Rafael Ferrer
Paul Fiene
Morgan Fisher
John B. Flannagan
Hollis Frampton
Robert Frank
Andrea Fraser
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Hermine Freed
Jared French
Lee Friedlander
Brian Frye
Charles Gaines
Anna Gaskell
GCC
Gerald K. Geerlings
Hugo Gellert
Sandra Gibson
Luis Gispert
William Glackens
Milton Glaser
Robert Gober
Nan Goldin
Wayne Gonzales
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Boris Gorelick
Arshile Gorky
Dan Graham
William Gropper
Nancy Grossman
George Grosz
Louis Guglielmi
Philip Guston
Walter Gutman
Wade Guyton
Hans Haacke
Peter Halley
David Hammons
Keith Haring
Rachel Harrison
Marsden Hartley
David Hartt
David Haxton
Sharon Hayes
Al Held
Robert Henri
Carmen Herrera
Eva Hesse
Lewis Hine
Nancy Holt
Jenny Holzer
Edward Hopper
Roni Horn
Earl Horter
Alex Hubbard
Peter Hujar
Richard Hunt
Victoria Hutson Huntley
Robert Indiana
Abraham Jacobs
Ulysses Jenkins
Neil Jenney
Candy Jernigan
Jess
Jasper Johns
Rashid Johnson
Ray Johnson
William H Johnson
Joan Jonas
Joe Jones
Philip Mallory Jones
Michael Joo
Donald Judd
Alex Katz
On Kawara
Mike Kelley
Ellsworth Kelly
Sister Corita Kent
Karen Kilimnik
William Klein
Franz Kline
Josh Kline
Jeff Koons
Lee Krasner
Barbara Kruger
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yayoi Kusama
Suzanne Lacy
David Lamelas
Dorothea Lange
Liz Magic Laser
Robert Laurent
Louise Lawler
Jacob Lawrence
An-My Lê
William Leavitt
Zoe Leonard
Alfred Leslie
Howard Lester
Sherrie Levine
Herschel Levit
Helen Levitt
Norman Lewis
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
Glenn Ligon
Kalup Linzy
Alvin Loving
Lee Lozano
Louis Lozowick
George Luks
Helen Lundeberg
Len Lye
Danny Lyon
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Tala Madani
Man Ray
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Robert Mapplethorpe
Christian Marclay
Brice Marden
Marisol
Kyra Markham
Reginald Marsh
Agnes Martin
Fletcher Martin
Gordon Matta-Clark
Cynthia Maughan
Keith Mayerson
Paul McCarthy
John McCracken
Adam McEwen
John McLaughlin
Josephine Meckseper
Jonas Mekas
Ana Mendieta
Sam Middleton
Aleksandra Mir
Joan Mitchell
Toyo Miyatake
Lisette Model
Donald Moffett
Abelardo Morell
Robert Morris
Mark Morrisroe
Gerald Murphy
Elizabeth Murray
Julie Murray
Reuben Nakian
Bruce Nauman
Alice Neel
Louise Nevelson
Barnett Newman
Isamu Noguchi
David Novros
Jim Nutt
Chiura Obata
Georgia O’Keeffe
Claes Oldenburg
Catherine Opie
Jose Clemente Orozco
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Alfonso Ossorio
Tony Oursler
Bill Owens
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Nam June Paik
Jean Painlevé
Gordon Parks
Agnes Pelton
I Rice Pereira
Raymond Pettibon
Elizabeth Peyton
Paul Pfeiffer
Howardena Pindell
Adrian Piper
Horace Pippin
Lari Pittman
Jackson Pollock
Liliana Porter
Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Prince
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
Noah Purifoy
RH Quaytman
Walid Raad
Yvonne Rainer
Christina Ramberg
Robert Rauschenberg
Charles Ray
Luis Recoder
Jeffrey Reed
Robert Reed
Earl Reiback
Ad Reinhardt
Hans Richter
Faith Ringgold
Dorothea Rockburne
James Rosenquist
Martha Rosler
Theodore Roszak
Susan Rothenberg
Mark Rothko
Edward Ruscha
Morgan Russell
Betye Saar
David Salle
Lucas Samaras
Jacolby Satterwhite
Peter Saul
Matt Saunders
Morton Schamberg
Carolee Schneemann
Dana Schutz
Dread Scott
George Segal
Richard Serra
Ben Shahn
Joel Shapiro
Paul Sharits
Charles Sheeler
Cindy Sherman
Roger Shimomura
Everett Shinn
Amy Sillman
Laurie Simmons
Taryn Simon
Lorna Simpson
John Sloan
David Smith
Jack Smith
Kiki Smith
Tony Smith
Robert Smithson
Keith Sonnier
Edward Steichen
Ralph Steiner
Frank Stella
Joseph Stella
Harry Sternberg
Hedda Sterne
Florine Stettheimer
May Stevens
Alfred Stieglitz
John Storrs
Michelle Stuart
Sturtevant
Wayne Thiebaud
Alma Thomas
Rirkrit Tiravanija
George Tooker
Bill Traylor
Ryan Trecartin
Anne Truitt
Wu Tsang
Richard Tuttle
Cy Twombly
Stan VanDerBeek
Kara Walker
Kelley Walker
Carl Walters
Andy Warhol
Max Weber
Weegee
William Wegman
Lawrence Weiner
Tom Wesselmann
HC Westermann
Charles White
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Jack Whitten
Hannah Wilke
Christopher Williams
Sue Williams
Fred Wilson
Garry Winogrand
William Winter
Karl Wirsum
David Wojnarowicz
Jordan Wolfson
Martin Wong
Grant Wood
Francesca Woodman
Hale Aspacio Woodruff
Christopher Wool
Andrew Wyeth
William Zorach
