Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 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 hostes
Photograph of Whitney taken c. 1909
Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio, c. 1920
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, II and her daughters, Gladys and Gertrude, having tea in the library at the Breakers Newport, Rhode Island, William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1932
Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist. He was also a polo player who owned a stable of Thoroughbred racehorses
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
…Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986) Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992) Barbara Whitney (1903–1983; m. 1960, to George W. Headley…
Whitney's fourth wife, Marylou Whitney, with children, 1959
C.V. and Marylou Whitney with Governor and Mrs. John Y. Brown Jr.
Portrait of Henri II de Lorraine by Anthony van Dyck, 1634, which Whitney donated to the National Gallery of Art