Queer Places:
The Art Students League of New York, 215 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, Stati Uniti
2 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022, Stati Uniti
871 5th Ave, New York, NY 10065, Stati Uniti
748 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Stati Uniti
Whitney Museum of American Art, 8 W 8th St, New York, NY 10011, Stati Uniti
Woodlawn Cemetery, E 233rd St & Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470, Stati Uniti
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an
American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social
figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and
married into the Whitney family.
At age 21, on August 25, 1896, Gertrude married the extremely wealthy sportsman Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930).[1][9] A banker and investor, Whitney was the son of William Collins Whitney, and his mother, the former Flora Payne, was the daughter of a U.S. Senator and sister of a Standard Oil Company magnate. Harry Whitney inherited a fortune in oil and tobacco as well as interests in banking.[41] In New York, the couple lived in town houses originally belonging to William Whitney, first at 2 East 57th St., across the street from Gertrude's parents, and after William Whitney's death, at 871 Fifth Avenue.[42] They also had a country estate in Westbury, Long Island.[9] Gertrude and Harry Whitney had three children:
In 1918 she joined Mabel Dwight and founded the Whitney Studio Club[12], Juliana R. Force was the club's director.[2]
Harry Whitney died of pneumonia in 1930, at age 58, leaving his widow an estate valued at $72 million.[43] In 1934, she was at the center of a highly publicized court battle with her sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, for custody of her ten-year-old niece, Gloria Vanderbilt. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney did win custody of her niece at the end of the custody battle.[21]
2 East 57th St.
871 Fifth Avenue
Whitney Museum of American Art, 8 W 8th St
Gertrude Whitney died in 1942, at age 67, and was interred next to her husband in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.[44] The reported cause of her death was from a heart condition.[21] Her daughter Flora Whitney Miller assumed her mother's duties as head of the Whitney Museum, and was succeeded by her daughter, Flora Miller Biddle.[45]
My published books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney