Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ABOUT GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY
Artist, art patron, and collector who founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931.
She hung out with mostly boys and participated in sports growing up.
She sculpted numerous monuments that are located all over the world.
She married the wealthy Harry Payne Whitney when she was 21.
She and Nelson Rockefeller both came from famous American families.
