Collection-based exhibition, "Pictures of a Landscape"

The Whitney will organize a major, collection-based exhibition titled “Pictures of a Landscape,” inspired and informed by a recent, Luce-funded strategic planning process in which a curatorial team analyzed the patterns and import of collection growth over nearly a century. On view for over a year, the installation of over 100 works in a wide range of media will explore how artists from the late 1960s to the present have grappled with landscape-associated notions of space, place, movement, belonging, disappearance, and change. “Pictures of a Landscape” will embody the Whitney’s sharpened approach to fostering new understandings of the United States: its history, diversity, and potential future. Across eight galleries and as many themes, most works will be acquisitions from the last five years and well over half by artists of color, demonstrating the museum’s freshly articulated priorities, values, and aspirations.