Research material on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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Irving, Flora Miller.
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Irving is G.V. Whitney's granddaughter and she collaborated with B.H. Friedman on the biography GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY by B.H. Friedman (1978). From the description of Research material on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1883-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291239 ...
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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Sculptor, art patron, philanthropist. Founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney was born in 1875 to Cornelius Vanderbilt, II. In 1896, married Harry Payne Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, secretary of the Navy, 1885-1889. She studied sculpture under Henry Anderson, James Fraser and Andrew O'Connor. In 1907, she opened a studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley. She was active in WW I charities, and sponsored the opening of the American Ambulance Fiel...
