Printed Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 27-28, 36)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1859-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Arrangement note
content: Printed material is partially scanned; some news clippings have not been scanned and only covers and relevant pages of some publications have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of clippings, exhibition catalogs, programs, and publications. Included are clippings about the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, Whitney's engagement to Harry Payne Whitney in 1896, Whitney's artistic and philanthropic activities, Flora Payne Whitney's first marriage, Whitney's sculptures, Harry Payne Whitney's death in 1930, the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931, the publication of Whitney's novel Walking the Dusk (under the pseudonym L. J. Webb),catalogs include ones for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney sculpture exhibitions, for exhibitions at the Whitney studio, and for other artists (including Jo Davidson, Andrew O'Connor, and Robert Chanler).