Works by Dan Whitney

Educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and having studied in Paris, art historian Judith Bonner credits Dan Whitney as one of the artists who brought cubism with him to New Orleans in 1924.

Bonner also writes:

Daniel Webster Whitney studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvanian Academy of Fine Arts, and the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. In the 1930s, he taught at the Arts and Crafts Club, then for the W.P.A. Adult Education Project. In 1938 he opened the Whitney School of Art at 911 Chartres Street. He served as director of the Ocean Springs Summer Art Colony in Mississippi and subsequently relocated in Covington, Louisiana.

Another portrait by Dan Whitney of Catherine

Whitney’s 1939 Portrait of Man (below), a straightforward presentation of a blue-collar worker, is characteristic of the Social Realism of the Depression era. Later, Whitney moved toward faceted and abstract elements in his compositions, with a conscious emphasis on symbolism and an ethereal quality of light.

– from the HNOC exhibition catalog The New Orleans Arts & Crafts Club: An Artistic Legacy