A report on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Whitney Museum and Greenwich Village

circa 1909
The front of the Museum (2019)
Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)
The front of the Museum (2019)
MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio, ca. 1920
The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
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
The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.
The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets
Robert Henri, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916
Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line
Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Vogue magazine, by Adolf de Meyer, January 15, 1917
The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.
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.
Chateau Thierry
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)
Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village
His Last Charge
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
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.
Found
Theodore Robinson, Etude, (1890)
The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.
Engineers
Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)
The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.
John
Robert Henri, Laughing Child, (1907)
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.
Salome
Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)
Blue Note Jazz Club
Gwendolyn
Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University
Mother and Child
George Luks, Armistice Night, (1918)
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
Untitled
Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921
Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background
Sketch
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)
Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument
Victory Arch, one of two bronze reliefs, New York City
NYPD 6th Precinct
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial (World War I), New York City
West Village Post Office
Titanic Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Buffalo Bill - The Scout, Cody, Wyoming
Robert De Niro
Monument to the Discovery Faith, Huelva, Spain
Robert Downey Jr.
The Three Graces, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hank Greenberg
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.
Emma Stone
A.E.F. Memorial, Saint-Nazaire, France
90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends
Peter Stuyvesant, New York City
Aztec fountain, Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C.
Fountain of El Dorado, detail, 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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.

- Whitney Museum

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.

- Whitney Museum

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

- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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.

- Greenwich Village

By the 1930s it had evolved into her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

- Greenwich Village
circa 1909

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