[2] His most recent work’s basis is the physical world, but more as an "evocative interpretation rather than a literal one.
"[4] These themes are manifest in the painting of Albert Pinkham Ryder, a recent focus of Whitman's.
[5] Whitman began photographing North Adams’ abandoned Sprague Electric Company factory in 1988 “because it would surely be razed.” Documenting the then-deteriorating 19th-century mill buildings, Whitman captured scenes ranging from vast postindustrial landscapes to minute traces of the plant’s former workers.
Whitman’s meticulously composed photographs—windows onto the historic nature of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s celebrated[6] renovated factory campus—are currently on display in the museum and accompanied by an expanded catalog, A PLACE REMOVED.
[14] In addition to his independent work, he was an instructor at Williams College's winter studies program between 2003-2018.