Artist

Robert Whitman

Portrait of Robert Whitman

American, 1935–2024

Robert Whitman was an American artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Robert Whitman was born in New York City.

Robert Whitman was an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. From the late 1960s on he worked with new technologies, and his latest work incorporated cellphones.

Collections represented

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