Hilles, Susan Morse: Art World Personality Files.
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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American art museum; New York, N.Y. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and formally opened in 1931. Previous to its opening as a museum it was known as the Whitney Studio Club (1914-28) and Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30). From the description of Whitney Museum of American Art artists' files and records, 1914-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133455 The Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art is an upper level membershi...
Hilles, Susan Morse, 1905-2002
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Susan (Morse) Hilles, art collector and philanthropist, was born in Simsbury, Conn., on July 4, 1905, the daughter of Susan Ensign and Rev. William Inglis Morse. After study at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1924-1925) and the Sacker School of Design (1926-1929), she married Frederick Whiley Hilles, who became a professor of English at Yale University. They had two children. In the 1950s she began to collect the work of post-war, mostly American, artists, including Helen F...
