During the 1930s, Greenwich Village’s art scene flourished with galleries and collectors promoting contemporary art. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an American sculptor, art patron, and collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931 in New York City. The museum is located at 99 Gansevoort Street and is currently hosting regular public tours of her private studio following a restoration project. Born in 1875 to shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, II, she married Harry Payne Whitney in 1896.
The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who was also a sculptor herself. She saw that American artists with new ideas had trouble exhibiting or selling. By 1929, she turned her attention to creating a permanent home for American art. Just weeks before the stock market, she went on to found the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney created her own art in studios on Long Island and in Greenwich Village. The future of both studios is uncertain, but the New York Adventure Club offers a rare trip inside the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, now a National Historic Landmark. Curator Ellen Roberts is currently attempting to do with “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture”, on view at the Norton Museum of Art through April 29.
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