Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1876-1942 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1876-1942 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/198882444

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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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...