A report on Greenwich Village and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio, ca. 1920

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

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

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Robert Henri, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Vogue magazine, by Adolf de Meyer, January 15, 1917

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Victory Arch, one of two bronze reliefs, New York City

Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial (World War I), New York City

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

Monument to the Discovery Faith, Huelva, Spain

The Three Graces, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Aztec fountain, Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.

Fountain of El Dorado, detail, 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition

In 1907, Whitney established an apartment and studio in Greenwich Village.

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In one of the many Manhattan properties that Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband owned, Gertrude Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street in 1914, as a facility where young artists could exhibit their works.

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Whitney Museum

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Art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village

The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named.

The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney.

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

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The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of whom had become disenchanted with the fragmented nature of art instruction inside traditional art programs and universities.

In 1914, in one of the many Manhattan properties Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband owned, Gertrude Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, next to her own MacDougal Alley studio.