Sculpture Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Linear Feet (Boxes 12-15)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900-1960
label: Date
content: bulk 1909-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Sculpture files are arranged chronologically according to name of the project. Miscellaneous files are arranged at the end of the series.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: The bulk of this series has been scanned; some news clippings and a Foch National Memorial, Inc., stamp have not been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of files relating to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture projects, including both proposed and completed commissions for various fountains, memorials and monuments. Projects that are especially well-documented include the Buffalo Bill Memorial, the Columbus Memorial, the Daughters of the American Revolution (D. A. R.) Memorial, the Foch National Memorial, the St. Nazaire Memorial, The Spirit of Flight (commissioned for the New York World's Fair in 1939 and erected permanently at LaGuardia Airport), and the Titanic Memorial. Also found are files for the donation and installation of the Vanderbilt Gates in Central Park and for an exhibition of sketches and models for the Victory Arch at the Whitney Studio Club, both in 1919. For the most part, files seem to have been part of those kept by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Files are primarily comprised of correspondence, contracts, printed material, notes, financial material, and other documentation.

Material related to Whitney's sculpture projects can also be found amongst photographs and blueprints.