Harry Payne Whitney
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Harry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horse breeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.
Whitney in February 1924
J. Parks, Harry Payne Whitney, and F.S. von Stade, circa 1914
Whitney and his horse Regret
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Vogue magazine, by Adolf de Meyer, January 15, 1917
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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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
Harry Payne Whitney
…Kentucky stud farm was passed on to his son, C.V. Whitney, who owned it until 1989 when it became part of Gainesway Farm. On August 25, 1896, he married Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. In New York, the couple lived in town houses originally belonging to William Whitney, first at…
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