藝術家Gertrude Vanderbilt WHITNEY (1875-1942) 生平簡歷

出生地： NYC

死亡地点： NYC

地址： NYC/Old Westbury, NY

职业： Sculptor, patron

教育： privately with Hendrick Christian Anderson in 1900; ASL with James E. Fraser, 1903; with A. O'Connor and Rodin in Paris.

展出： Buffalo Expo., 1901; St. Louis Fair, 1904; AIC; PAFA Ann., 1909-42 (10 times); Arch Lg. (solo); NAD (prize); Paris Salon, 1913 (hon. men.); NAWA, 1914 (prize); Fountain of El Dorado, Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (bronze medal); Soc. Indep. Artists, 1917, 1919-24, 1941; WMAA, 1918-41; Am. Art Dealers Assn., 1932 (medal); WFNY, 1939 (sculpture, To the Morrow"); Salons of Am. Award: Grand Order of King Alfonso II of Spain"

会员： NAWA; NSS; Portrait Painters; Newport AA; New SA; NAC.

工作： WMAA; Victory Arch, NYC (1919); Washington Heights War Mem., 168th St., NYC (1922); Aztec Fountain, for Pan-Am. Union in Wash., DC (1912); fountain, McGill Univ., Montreal; Titanic Memorial statue, Wash., DC (1931); Fountain of El Dorado, Lima, Peru; Columbus Mem., Palos, Spain (1929); Buffalo Bill Cody, Cody, Wyoming (1924)

评论： Sculptor of public monuments and a major art patron. Gertrude Vanderbilt was born into a wealthy family and became interested in watercolor and drawing after the birth of her children (she married Harry Payne Whitney in 1896). As a sculptor, she was greatly influenced by Rodin, while Fraser and O'Connor encouraged her in the area of public monuments for which she is best known. Because of her famous name, she worked under pseudonyms until receiving a medal from the NAD for her statue Immortal" in 1910. About this time, she also became a pivotal sponsor of American art, allowing artists to use part of her Greenwich Village studio to publically exhibit their work, and helping to finance the 1913 Armory Show. Her studio became a place where young artists gathered, and in 1914 she expanded into an adjoining building, hiring an assistant (Juliana Force). Whitney began exhibiting and buying the work of young artists and in 1918 the Whitney Studio grew into the Whitney Studio Club and then the Whitney Studio Galleries, resulting finally in the establishment of the Whitney Museum in 1931. In 1934 she won custody of her niece Gloria Vanderbildt in a sensational court case. Publications: novel, Walking in the Dusk, under pseudonym, E.J. Webb, 1932.

来源： WW40; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 186-90 (cites 1875 as birthdate); Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 85; Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 232 (w/repro.) cites 1875 as birthdate; Falk, Exh. Record Series.