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	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was the eldest surviving daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1852-1934) and a great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island, at the family's mansion, The Breakers, where she kept up with the boys in all their rigorous sporting activities.
		Gertrude Whitney died in 1942 and was interred next to her husband in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney (658 words)

	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II Gertrude Vanderbilt was born in 1875 to Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt.
		Gertrude was married to Harry Payne Whitney on August 25, 1896.
		Gertrude fought to obtain custody of Gloria on the grounds that Gloria's mother was an unfit guardian.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/gvanderb.html (574 words)

	BookRags: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Biography
		Gertrude was the second daughter and the fourth of seven children of Cornelius and Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt.
		Gertrude was brought up in an atmosphere of wealth and luxury and spent most of her youth shuttling between her family's two homes: a luxurious mansion in New York City and a summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island.
		Whitney was born on January 9, 1875, and educated by private tutors and at the Brearley School.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gertrude-vanderbilt-whitney-aya (1445 words)

	Points West Article - Alexander Phimister Proctor and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculptor in Buckskin and American ...
		Gertrude Vanderbilt was born in 1875 in New York City to Cornelius and Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitneyâs financial resources made it possible for her to pursue her artistic career while still raising a family, yet her societal position meant that she was expected to maintain a certain established role, which was not that of professional artist.
		Whitneyâs wealth and social connections, which had set her apart and made others unwilling to regard her as a serious artist, also helped her to secure commissions and to be able to carry them out, as in the case of the monument to Cody.
	www.bbhc.org /pointsWest/PWArticle.cfm?ArticleID=150 (2481 words)

	Whitney Museum of American Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City harbors one of the most important collections of contemporary American art of the 20th century.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1931 with approximately 700 works of art from her own estate.
		Every two years, the museum hosts the Whitney Biennial, an international art show which displays many lesser-known artists new to the American art scene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art (258 words)

	William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney, the charmer, the mediator, the consummate politician and a pivotal force in Tammany and the national Democratic party, made his fortune by methods so subtle that they remained undiscovered in his lifetime.
		Whitney was a descendant of General Josiah Whitney of the Revolution, who in turn was a descendant of Sir Robert Whitney of Whitney, Herefordshire, England.
		Whitney she has spent mach time in the study and pursuit of sculpture and has done a number of notable works.
	www.whitneygen.org /archives/biography/williamc.html (2533 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) was the oldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, patriarch of the Vanderbilt dynasty.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his younger brothers, William K. Vanderbilt and Frederick W. Vanderbilt, succeeded their father in managing the family's vast shipping and railroad empire.
		Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a sculptor and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/cvanderbiltII.html (485 words)

	Whitney Museum of American Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney favored the art of the revolutionary artists derisively called the Ashcan School, among them John Sloan, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, as well as realists such as Edward Hopper and American Scene painters John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton.
		Although the Whitney's acquisition budget was always rather modest, the Museum made the most of its resources by purchasing the work of living artists, particularly those who were young and not well known.
		Whitney's death in 1942, and the death of the Museum's first director, Juliana Force, in 1948, it became evident that to keep pace with the burgeoning artistic activity in the United States, the Whitney needed to substantially augment its acquisition funds.
	www.whitney.org /www/collection/history.shtml (870 words)

	BookRags: Gloria Vanderbilt Biography
		Vanderbilt was one of the first designers to make public appearances, a difficult thing for her because of her shyness.
		Vanderbilt said in an interview with People, that she did not write it as a form of therapy to resolve the pain she felt at her mother's indifference.
		Vanderbilt contended that her son was not depressed or suicidal, but was disoriented from asthma medication he had taken.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gloria-vanderbilt (1515 words)

	Salon People Feature \| The trouble with the Whitneys
		New York Post told much of the story: heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, great-granddaughter of 19th century robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt, standing at the top of a ladder, outstretched arm touching the shoulder of her sculpture of a tall, dashing man in breeches.
		Seventy years after Gertrude founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in Greenwich Village, some of her descendants are openly talking about removing the family name -- and, more importantly, a sizable portion of its money -- from the institution.
		Gertrude Whitney studied sculpture in New York and Paris, opened a Village studio in 1907 and in her career created public sculptures in Washington, New York, Saint-Nazaire, France, and Palos, Spain.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/03/15/sanitation/print.html (912 words)

	Divas - The Site / Society Divas / Gloria Vanderbilt
		The judge was mightily impressed by Gertrude’s battery of high-priced attorneys and it was his belief that the ten-year old girl would be better off living with the very, very rich Gertrude than her own mother.
		The problem was, even with all those supposedly brilliant financial people in the Whitney and Vanderbilt avis, no one bothered to educate the young woman on her massive inheritance.
		Vanderbilt did exhaust all efforts to retrieve the funds and trustees of the New York Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection awarded her $300,000, the maximum it allows.
	www.divasthesite.com /Society_Divas/gloria_vanderbilt_a.htm (2253 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Whitney, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney Museum of American Art WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART [Whitney Museum of American Art] in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
		Whitney, Mount WHITNEY, MOUNT [Whitney, Mount] peak, 14,494 ft (4,418 m) high, E Calif., in the Sierra Nevada at the eastern border of Sequoia National Park; the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states (Mt. McKinley, Alaska, is the highest peak in the United States).
		Whitney Houston talks about the men in her life - and the rumors, lies and insults that are the high price of fame.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Whitney,&StartAt=1 (625 words)

	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gertrude was one of six children of Cornelius and Alice Gwynn Vanderbilt.
		Whitneys' most enduring legacy is the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, which she established in 1931, housed initially on the site of the Whitney Studio Club, which Ms.
		In 1934 Gertrude Whitney was involved in the celebrated court battle for custody of her neice, Gloria, with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?560637 (228 words)

	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While working in Paris, Whitney was inspired by Auguste Rodin to express her aspirations and tragic sense through plastic, dynamic figures.
		The terrible sights Whitney observed in the hospital she established for French wounded in World War I inspired many impassioned studies of struggling and shattered bodies.
		During World War I, Gertrude Whitney dedicated a great deal of her time and money to various relief efforts, establishing and maintaining a hospital for wounded soldiers in Juilly in the Seine-et-Marne département in France.
	www.whitneygen.org /archives/biography/gertrude.html (756 words)

	The Three Gertrudes - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertude Stein and Gertie the Dinosaur and 'The American Century, ...
		Whitney's lead, we should abandon the grandiose expectations raised by the exhibition's unfortunate title and, instead, think of "The American Century, Part I" as curator Barbara Haskell's personal selection of the best American art from 1900 to 1950.
		Whitney was less enthusiastic for the art of the Stieglitz circle, and for Haskell's particular passion, Precisionism (although she did buy Charles Demuth's My Egypt).
		Whitney's parlor to the Whitney Museum of American Art itself, was an essential part of the way in which modern art became accepted and institutionalized in America.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_87/ai_56458953 (952 words)

	Whitney 2004 Biennial Show
		The Whitney's niche is to come up with something shocking and new, while the Guggenheim, its neighbor 15 blocks north, often seems happy to simply display the same commodities that are on sale in various boutiques, from BMW motorcycles to Armani suits.
		The MOMA was the godchild of the Rockefeller family, while the Whitney was launched directly by the granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gertrude Whitney Vanderbilt, a would-be artist who started the original museum in 1931 after divorcing her playboy husband Harry Payne Whitney.
		It is of course ironic that the Whitney, for all its radical pretensions, would not exist without the super-exploitation of Irish and Chinese rail workers.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Whitney.htm (850 words)

	January (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney (1875-1942) trained in the classical sculpture tradition, although she was also strongly influenced by Auguste Rodin.
		Whitney’s other sculptures include the Titanic Memorial of 1914 in Washington, D.C., whose pose inspired a moment in the movie Titanic; Buffalo Bill, 1924, at the entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Cody, Wyoming; and Manhattan’s own Peter Stuyvesant, 1936.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, used some of her inherited wealth to support young artists.
	www.forgottendelights.com /salute/2004JanuarySalute.htm (1855 words)

	Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was the great-granddaugher of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		Although she fully participated in the social circuit of her peers, she regarded herself as neither a "society" nor a "social person." She married Harry Payne Whitney in 1896 and by 1901 at age 26, had given birth to two children.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney will then remodel and expand her Macdougal studio and open the Whitney Museum of American Art, renowned today throughout the world.
	panam1901.bfn.org /documents/panamwomen/gertrude_whitney.htm (369 words)

	Whitney Museum of American Art \| New York Attractions
		The Whitney Museum of American Art, located on Manhattan’s upper east side, on Madison and 75th Street, is one of the nation’s most important contemporary art museum, and arguably, the most important collection of modern American art in the world.
		The Whitney Museum was founded in 1931 through the energy and generosity of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor herself.
		The Whitney offers several program to help families best enjoy the museum, including special free "family cards" of the museum’s most important pieces, which list the important points about each work, and free sketchbooks for families to make their own interpretations.
	www.newyorkjourney.com /whitney_museum_american_art.htm (576 words)

	New York The Whitney Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art.
		The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; others were purchased by Mrs.
		Whitney at the time of the opening to provide a more thorough overview of American art in the early decades of the century.
	www.beyondtimessquare.com /nycs-whitney.htm (87 words)

	Amazon.com: The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir: Books: Flora Miller Biddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The history of the Whitney Museum is a riveting drama that begins with Gertrude, the oldest daughter of the heir to the biggest American family fortune of the day--the Vanderbilts.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor and art lover, opened the Whitney Studio in 1914 on Eighth Street in lower New York City.
		As other members of the Whitney family have shown in recent times, a single painting of the calibur that Flora Miller sold for the Museum's sake could have set her heirs up for life, had she chosen not to sell it and had passed it on.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559705949?v=glance (1869 words)

	Ronnie Landfield - Whitney Review
		I suspect that if she were alive Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney would close them down-if she wasn't bowled over by the glitz and the glamour and the media attention paid to her museum.
		Robert Henri's portrait of the Whitney Museum's founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is particularly appropriate and enjoyable to see in this context.
		The Whitney Museum has a new director and apparently he is building a new curatorial staff that hopefully will begin a new era and clear the air for this often beleaguered institution.
	www.abstract-art.com /abstraction/l5_wordings_fldr/l4_la_whitney_rvw1.html (3768 words)

	American Paintings Auction at Sotheby's May 27, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney, who was married to Harry Payne Whitney, for her approval and wrote that "As a companion tone to the rich brown of the wood work, I want to have a band of rich beautiful evening blue; those to be the two big notes of the room.
		The Sotheby’s catalogue notes that "the Whitney murals were finally completed and the last panel, the present work, was installed in September of 1918." "This magnificent panel remains the second largest mural ever executed by the artist.
		It is ironic that Sotheby’s has another fine Parrish from another Whitney collection in the same auction, Lot 170, "Plum Pudding," a 19 3/4 by 16 1/4 inch oil on board, from the collection of the late Mr.
	www.thecityreview.com /s99apts.html (2669 words)

	Whitney Estate
		This was the estate of Harry Payne Whitney and his wife Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
		Gertrude was a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the transportation mogul.
		It is said that a sculptor that was working on a sculpture of her had fallen in love with Gertrude.
	www.lioddities.com /Bygone/whitney.htm (199 words)

	The Whitney Museum of American Art - New York Art World
		When Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe were evolving as artists, the Whitney was founded to give them, and countless other emerging American artists including Jasper Johns and Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder, a place to show their work.
		Founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, The Whitney Museum of American Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American Art.
		Whitney believed tha living American artists deserved recognition and that a new museum was very much needed to serve them.
	www.newyorkartworld.com /museums/whitneymuseum.html (860 words)

	Buffalo Bill Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitney to ask that she sculpt a statue of Buffalo Bill.
		Whitney became enthused with the idea of a Buffalo Bill Statue and she adopted and took over management of the entire project.
		Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the granddaughter of another Cornelius (the Commodore) Vanderbilt.
	wyoshpo.state.wy.us /billstat.htm (389 words)

	CNN.com - Whitney heiress says funds will stop - March 13, 2000
		The piece, "Sanitation," by Hans Haacke, has upset 73-year-old heiress Marylou Whitney so much that she has told the museum director that in addition to halting donations, she'll quit its national fund-raising board.
		According to the museum, Whitney is one of about 60 members of the museum's national committee, each of whom contributes about $5,000 to the institution annually.
		Whitney, whose mother-in-law, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney Museum, told the New York Post in Saturday's editions she wished that "they could take the Whitney name off that museum."
	edition.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/03/13/whitneyflap.ap (452 words)

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