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==Library==
The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library is a research library originally built on the collections of books and papers of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and the Whitney Museum's first director, Juliana Force. The library operates in the West Chelsea area of New York City.<ref name="whitney1">{{cite web |url=http://library.whitney.org/ |title=library.whitney.org |publisher=library.whitney.org |access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref> It contains Special Collections and the Whitney Museum Archives. The archives<ref>{{cite web |url=http://whitney.org/Research/Library/Archives |title=Whitney Museum of American Art: Archives |publisher=Whitney.org |access-date=January 26, 2014 |archive-date=November 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107181500/http://whitney.org/Research/Library/Archives |url-status=dead }}</ref> contain the Institutional Archives, Research Collections, and Manuscript Collections. The Special Collections consist of artists' books, portfolios, photographs, titles in the Whitney Fellows Artist and Writers Series (1982–2001), posters, and valuable ephemera that relate to the permanent collection. The Institutional Archives include exhibition records, photographs, curatorial research notes, artist's correspondence, audio and video recordings, and trustees' papers from 1912 to the present.

'''Highlights''':
* [[Arshile Gorky]] research collection, 1920s–1990s
* [[Edward Hopper]] research collection, 1894–2000

Books and materials in the library can be accessed in the museum's database.<ref name="whitney1"/>