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NY Post photo composite The historic home of railroad heiress and Whitney Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney has sat on the market for over a year without securing a buyer. And real estate ...
In the summer of 2018, I undertook what I thought would be a straightforward research project at the McGill University Visual Arts Collection: examining Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s papers in ...
Media Platforms Design Team Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916, by Robert Henri. The opening of the vast Renzo Piano–designed Whitney Museum building in Manhattan's meatpacking district this past ...
It was built in 1912 for his great-grandmother Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the sculptor, heiress, and founder, in 1931, of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The studio was on the grounds of her ...
The future of both is uncertain. By John Freeman Gill The sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a bohemian aristocrat, left behind a sturdy legacy of patronage in the institution she founded ...
What pops into your head when you think of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney? Her great wealth? Her founding of the Whitney Museum of American Art? Her infamous court battle for custody of her niece ...
Out stepped Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, thin and unsmiling. Dressed in a fox fur, hat, and gloves, the 59-year-old founder of the Whitney Museum, accompanied by her lawyer Frank Crocker ...
The NYPL's lion mascot, Patience, playfully poses for a photo with a portrait of the museum's founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney Museum of American Art They’re roaring into reading.
On July 19, the Newport Art Museum honored Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Howard Gardiner Cushing at its annual Artists' Ball. After Cushing's untimely death in 1916, Whitney commissioned the ...
When she was 10 years old, her name was printed in the newspapers due to a highly publicized custody battle between her mother and aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who was considered one of the ...