Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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art patron human museum founder philanthropist sculptor socialite

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron, and socialite best known for founding the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

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Label	Occurrences
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney canonical	14

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instanceOf	art patron ⓘ human ⓘ museum founder ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ socialite ⓘ
birthName	Gertrude Vanderbilt ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Art Students League of New York ⓘ New York School of Fine and Applied Art ⓘ surface form: New York School of Art
familyName	Whitney ⓘ
fieldOfWork	American art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ
founded	Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ Whitney Studio Club ⓘ Whitney Studio Galleries ⓘ
fullName	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney self-link ⓘ
genre	public sculpture ⓘ
givenName	Gertrude ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	Vanderbilt family ⓘ Whitney family ⓘ
movement	American modernism ⓘ Ashcan School ⓘ surface form: Ashcan School (as patron)
notableFor	building a major collection of American art ⓘ founding the Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ supporting living American artists ⓘ
notableWork	Buffalo Bill Center of the West ⓘ surface form: Buffalo Bill – The Scout (Cody, Wyoming) Monument to the American Sailors of World War I (France) ⓘ Monument to Columbus ⓘ surface form: Monument to the Discovery Faith (Huelva, Spain) Peter Stuyvesant statue (New York City) ⓘ Titanic Memorial (Washington, D.C.) ⓘ Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial (New York City) ⓘ
occupation	art collector ⓘ art patron ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ socialite ⓘ
owned	Whitney Studio Galleries ⓘ surface form: Whitney Studio (West 8th Street, New York City)
patronOf	American artists ⓘ Ashcan School ⓘ surface form: Ashcan School artists modern American painting ⓘ
placeOfBirth	New York City ⓘ surface form: New York New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
relative	Cornelius Vanderbilt ⓘ
religion	Episcopalian ⓘ
residence	New York City ⓘ Newport, Rhode Island ⓘ Old Westbury ⓘ surface form: Old Westbury, New York
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
spouse	Harry Payne Whitney ⓘ
studiedUnder	Henriette Deluzy-Desportes ⓘ surface form: Henrietta Deluzy-Desportes James Earle Fraser ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Whitney → hasNotableBearer → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Museum of American Art → foundedBy → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Museum of American Art → namedAfter → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt → child → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island → hasNotableBurial → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Studio Club → foundedBy → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Studio Club → hasFounder → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Studio Club → operatedBy → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Studio Club → patron → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt → sibling → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney Western Art Museum → namedAfter → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Whitney family → hasNotableMember → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney → fullName → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney self-link ⓘ

Alice Claypoole Gwynne → child → Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ