#Gertrude Vanderbilt

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#Robert Winthrop Chanler #Gertrude Vanderbilt #Whitney’s studio #1918

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Head of a Spanish Peasant by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

#art #sculpture #Head of a Spanish Peasant #Gertrude Vanderbilt #The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Little Gloria...Happy At Last

Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-2019) was born 100 years ago today. Hers is a name that has meant something different to every American generation. Contemporary people may or may not recognize her as the mother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper. People my age remember her primarily as a brand; she was a prominent fashion entrepreneur in the ’70s and ’80s. Before that, she was a minor Hollywood actress and a…

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#book #Gertrude Vanderbilt #Gilded Age #Gloria Vanderbilt #Happy at Last #Little Gloria #Lucy Guttridge #tv movie #Vanderbilt #Whitney

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and founder of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photographed by Robert Henri, 9 January 1925.

#whitney gertrude vanderbilt #curators #portrait photography #ph #ots #whitney museum #robert henri #new york

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#gertrude vanderbilt whitney #sunburst #aigrette #1909 #1900s

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an American sculptor and the founder of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (Whitney with her work during the 1919 Whitney Studio Exhibition, “Impressions of the War.”)

#Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney #Gertrude Whitney #art by women

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (3/29/23) Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (American, 1875–1942) Caryatid (1912) Bronze sculpture, 47.6 x 16.5 x 14 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In addition to collecting works by twentieth-century American realist artists and founding what is now the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney also had a significant career as a sculptor.  This figure was a study for one of three standing male nudes that support the basin of an overlifesize marble fountain at McGill University in Montreal. The title of the bronze statuette, "Caryatid," describes the figure's function as an architectural support, but its gender makes it more correctly an atlas. Though Whitney positioned the subject in a classical contrapposto, both arms upraised supporting a heavy weight, she acknowledged the enormous impact of French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) by emphasizing the contrasts of light and shadow that serve alternately to reveal and to mask the figure. The physical force Whitney suggested through the taut musculature of the arms, legs, and back is also indebted to Rodin.

#Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney #Caryatid #Bronze sculpture #american artist #woman artist

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Vogue (1917)

#gertrude whitney #vanderbilt #pics #vintage #20th century

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جرترود فاندربلت ويتني المؤسسة لمتحف ويتني في نيويورك. في ١٩١٦ ولغاية رسم هذه اللوحة استعانت ويتني بمهارة روبرت هنري، الشخصية البارزة بين رسامي مناظر المدن. أغنى هنري ومعاصروه الساحة الفنية في نيويورك لعقد سبق بلوحاتهم الفريدة التي يصورون بها الناس والأشياء العادية من كل يوم.

نرى أمامنا السيدة ويتني بلباسها المختلف واعتدادها بذاتها لتخالف بهذا كل ما هو سائد، وبالأخص لشخص بمكانتها الإجتماعية. إمرأة متمددة على أريكة: كانت هذه صورة نمطية تُمثّل عادة محظية عارية أو الإلهة فينوس، ولكن هنا تجلّت رؤية ويتني ومهارة وذكاء هنري ليغيران هذا النمط إلى مفهوم المرأة العصرية.

كانت جرترود فاندربلت ويتني إمرأة غير عادية البتة، خلّفت أثراً باقي في عالم الفن الأمريكي.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Robert Henri

1916

#Art #Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney #Robert Henri #1916

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Early 1910s Hairstyles

Gerda Ring (1910-1915) via the Olso Museum // Gertrude Vanderbilt, American art collector and sculptor (1910) via wikipedia // Princess Patricia of Connaught (1912) via npg.org.uk // Anne Johnson of St. Louis (1913) via wikipedia // Hazel Dawn, American actress (1913) via David Shields on pinterest // Ruth Findlay, American actress (1914) via wikipedia

#old photo #fashion history #historical fashion #historical hairstyles #1910s fashion #1910s #1910 #1911 #1912 #1913 #1914 #titanic era #edwardian era #edwardiana #early 20th century #20th century fashion #old photograph #silent film #e

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Richard Hunt, Ogden Codman The Breakers, detail of wallcovering Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Bedroom 1892-1895 Commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt II as a summer home. Newport, Rhode Island, United States

#richard hunt #ogden codman #wallpaper #interior design #beaux arts #pattern

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I can’t believe it took me the entire season to realize that Larry, Marian and the whole “across-the-street neighbors marrying each other, one from new money and the other from old money” is based on actual Gilded Age history - Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney!

#the gilded age

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Gilded Glamour

The theme of this year's Met Gala and accompanying exhibition is 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion' which apparently means they are taking inspiration from the Gilded Age (∼1870-1900) in the United States. According to the invitations, the dress code is 'gilded glamour, white tie.' We usually see at least a couple of tiaras at the Met Gala but this year I'm hoping for a lot of them!

Tiaras were very popular for wealthy women in the Gilded Age which I love because most people think that tiaras are just for royalty and that is not true at all. The trouble is that non-royal tiaras are so much more difficult to find information about than their royal counterparts and I'm always on a mission for info about American tiaras. Here's a few Gilded Age tiaras to get us exited!

Mary-Louise Hungerford MacKay’s Trefoil Arabesque Tiara by Boucheron, 1889

Alva Smith Vanderbilt's Pearl Tiara by Boucheron, 1890

Julia Kemp's Diamond Tiara by Tiffany & Co., 1894

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Diamond Tiara by Boucheron, 1896

Cornelia Sherman Martin’s Diamond Flame Tiara, before 1897

JP Morgan's Diamond Winged Tiara by Cartier, 1901 (I'm assuming he bought this for someone else and wasn't just wearing it around the house but you never know)

Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field's Diamond Tiara by Cartier, 1902

Mary Morgan Burn's Ruby Tiara by Boucheron, 1903

Harry Payne Whitney's Wreath Tiara by Cartier (I assume he bought this for his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, but his sister-in-law, Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, was photographed wearing a very similar tiara in all diamonds)

Mary Scott Townsend's Diamond Tiara by Cartier, 1905

#Met Gala #Tiara Talk #tiara #United States #Tiffany #Cartier #Boucheron #Gilded Age #I'm prepared to be disappointed by no one following the theme

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916 Robert Henri

#Robert Henri #american art #art #painting #art history #fashion #portrait #1910s #early 20th century #Ashcan School #oil on canvas #black #fashion history #colors #drip too hard #that outfit though

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The custody dispute over the 10-year old heiress Gloria Vanderbilt fascinated Depression-era America in 1934. The girl's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody, alleging that her mother neglected her, had lovers of both sexes, and spent Gloria's inheritance income on her own hedonistic lifestyle. Gloria Senior retaliated by claiming that Whitney kept nude sculptures in her house (she was a sculptor herself and later founded the Whitney Museum in New York).

"The Trial of the Century," as the tabloids called it, began on October 1 and lasted six weeks. Gloria's youngest son, Anderson Cooper, later described it as "the O.J. case of its day, except bigger, because nothing like it had ever happened before." On November 13, the women in the picture above demonstrated outside the courthouse to support Gloria's mother's claim to her child. (Gloria's father had died years before.) In the end, the judge awarded custody to Whitney but allowed Gloria Senior weekend visitation rights. The NY Journal American mocked the verdict:

Rockabye baby, up on a writ. Monday to Friday, Mother's unfit As the week ends she rises in virtue, Saturdays, Sundays, Mother won't hurt you.

Above: "Little Gloria," as the press dubbed her, is hustled through a throng of reporters by bodyguards as she pays her first post-trial visit to her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.

Top Photo: Associated Press Bottom Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/History.com

#vintage New York #1930s #Gloria Vanderbilt #Little Gloria #Vanderbilt custody case #custody #Nov. 13 #family battle #rich people's problems #famous trials #custody battle #13 Nov.

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Gossip Girl Appreciation Week Day 7: Giving Me Free Choice Was A Mistake

In a bizarre turn of events, I decided to figure out where Nate (maybe) sits in the van der Bilt family tree, based on the real life Vanderbilts

the blue is the real Vanderbilt family, the red is fiction

For the sake of space, I didn't put everyone, and in the breakdown I'll only put the direct line (+ a couple relevant relatives)

Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was the magnate who made the name

his eldest son

William Henry Vanderbilt I (1821-1885) attended Columbia, but didn't graduate

has 2 sons to mention

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (1849-1920) had a son named after him, but that's not important (yet)

it's his older brother

Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) who has the line were following

his son

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877-1915) who died in the sinking if the RMS Lusitania, but not before the birth of his eldest

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901-1981) was married 3 times, and with his second wife had

William Henry Vanderbilt IV (1945-) a fairly private man, who I'm adapting into the William we know as Nate's grandfather

we'll give him a son and a daughter

The daughter is Anne, which brings us to Nate

The son doesn't have a canon name, but does have a canon son of his own

William Kissam Vanderbilt III, named after his great-great-great and great-great-great-great uncles, William Kissam Vanderbilt I and II, and nicknamed Tripp

a fun fact to close us out: Alfred's sister Gertrude married a Whitney, making her related (at least by marriage) to Eric's boyfriend Jonathan, who's stated to be a Whitney in 3x09. Unfortunately we don't know enough about Jonathan's immediate family to know how related he and Nate are (at the closest, 4th cousins; at the farthest, they share some distant relatives but aren't related themselves (à la Dan and Serena))

#a second fun fact: those 2 Georges you see are named 'George Washington Vanderbilt' #nate archibald #gossip girl #gg #ggaw23 #this show makes me insane