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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

1875 - 1942

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney has received more than 984,793 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is the 202nd most popular sculptor (down from 178th in 2019), the 8,261st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,354th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ranks 202 out of 189Before her are Josef Václav Myslbek, Sabiha Bengütaş, Alfred Hrdlicka, Erzsébet Schaár, Anna Golubkina, and Martin Kippenberger. After her are Marisol Escobar, Audrey Munson, Daniel Chester French, Rosemarie Trockel, Edmonia Lewis, and Francis Leggatt Chantrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ranks 153Before her are Kazimierz Prószyński, Dobri Hristov, Astrid Cleve, Herbert Jamison, Eugene Meyer, and Wilfred Hudson Osgood. After her are Andreas Michalakopoulos, Jean Cau, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Tomás Berreta, Jean-Guy Gautier, and Marmaduke Pickthall. Among people deceased in 1942, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ranks 200Before her are Lucy Parsons, John Goodall, Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, James Juvenal, Clinton Hart Merriam, and Max Bodenstein. After her are Valentin Loos, Carl Gustav Fleischer, James Cruze, Františka Plamínková, Edna May Oliver, and Cecilia Beaux.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ranks 8,261 out of 18,182Before her are Esai Morales (1962), Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), Charles King (1880), Ruth Chatterton (1892), John Boehner (1949), and Tenskwatawa (1775). After her are James Gray (1969), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Joe Sutter (1921), Joanna Moore (1934), Christopher A. Wray (1966), and Frank Whaley (1963).

Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ranks 11Before her are Walter De Maria (1935), Robert Morris (1931), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Duane Hanson (1925), and Jacob Epstein (1880). After her are Audrey Munson (1891), Daniel Chester French (1850), Edmonia Lewis (1844), Dale Chihuly (1941), Augusta Savage (1892), and Harriet Hosmer (1830).