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Founded in 1912, the Newport Art Museum is one of the oldest continuously operating and most highly regarded art museums and schools of its kind in the country.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daphne, 1933, Bronze, Private Collection.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known as an art patron and founder of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Yet she also had a significant career as a sculptor, exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe and receiving major commissions and prizes. This is the first exhibition of Whitney’s art since her death in 1942.
“Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture,” on view at the Newport Art Museum from April 19 through July 21, 2019, will showcase rarely seen works from private collections, examining the remarkable variety of the artist’s work—from her earliest classical sculptures to her more symbolic public monuments, from her bleakly Realist depiction of the tragedy of World War I to her late Art Deco work. Whitney was one of the only Americans who did not glorify the war in her public monuments, and her sensitive portraits of working class people, including African Americans and the unemployed, are also unusually nuanced for her time. A century after she worked, both the compelling nature of Whitney’s art and her contemporaries’ admiration for it make it time for a reassessment.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture is organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
This exhibition is made possible by the generosity of Anne Berkley Smith.
Additional support is provided by The Priscilla and John Richman Endowment for American Art, The Mr. and Mrs. Hamish Maxwell Exhibition Endowment, and The Diane Belfer Endowment for Sculpture.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Model for Washington Heights and Inwood Memorial, NY, 1922, Bronze, Private Collection.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Model for Unidentified Memorial, Perhaps to the Sinking of the Lusitania, 1920, Plaster, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, Old Westbury, New York.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, The Kiss, 1933, Bronze, Private Collection.
Robert Henri, Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916, Oil on canvas, 126.8 x 182.9 cm, (49 15/16 x 72 inches), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Gift of Flora Whitney Miller, 86.70.3.
This exhibition is made possible by your contributions to the Annual Fund.