[3][4] Some of the artists that exhibited at the David Whitney Gallery from September 1969 through March 1972 (when the gallery closed) included Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Ronnie Landfield, Ken Price, William Pettet, Lewis Stein, Gary Stephan, Kenneth Showell, Lawrence Stafford, and John Duff.
[5] The David Whitney Gallery featured Lyrical Abstraction, Post-minimalism and other current movements of the period[6][7] After his gallery years, he organized exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and elsewhere for Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Andy Warhol.
[1] While a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Whitney attended a lecture by Johnson at nearby Brown University and approached the architect afterwards, asking for a tour of the Glass House.
[10] Whitney bequeathed his estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which ultimately raised over $13 million in funds directed specifically to the endowment of the Glass House for its maintenance and operations.
In addition, he bequeathed forty-four artworks to the Menil Collection, including 17 drawings by Jasper Johns, Whitney's art library, and his curatorial papers.