Vanderbilt / Whitney Family : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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Vanderbilt / Whitney Family : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201488526

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

1 folder.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6995548

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Vanderbilt family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66f4rhh (family)

Whitney family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m41t6s (family)

Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6805436 (person)

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...