Page "Whitney Museum of American Art" Paragraph 5

From 1973 to 1983 the Whitney operated its first branch at 55 Water Street, in a building owned by Harold Uris who gave the museum a lease for $ 1 a year.

In 1983 Philip Morris installed a Whitney branch in the lobby of its Park Avenue headquarters.

In 1981 the museum opened an exhibition space in Stamford, Connecticut, that was housed in Champion International Corporation.

In the late 1980s, the Whitney entered into arrangements with Park Tower Realty, I. B. M.

and the The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, setting up satellite museums with rotating exhibitions in the lobbies of their buildings.

Each museum had its own director, and all plans were to be approved by a Whitney committee.