Sketches by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers
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content: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers / Series 11: Artwork
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1930s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.whitgert, Subseries 11.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Arrangement note
content: Sketches have been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries consists of sketchbooks and loose sketches by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, including early sketches done as a young girl, figure studies and anatomical drawings, sketches for and renderings of various sculptures, including the Titanic Memorial, Spirit of Flight, and St. Nazaire Memorial, and sketches of red cross nurses and soldiers grouped together under the head "My Experiences as an Emergency Canteen Worker."