99 Objects: Flora Miller Biddle on Head For Titanic Memorial by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Mon, July 13, 2015
3 pm
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), Head for Titanic Memorial, 1922. Seravezza marble head; 12 3/4 × 8 1/8 × 9 5/8 in. (32.4 × 20.6 × 24.4 cm); with base: 19 × 8 1/8 × 9 5/8 in. (48.3 × 20.6 × 24.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 31.81
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Floor One
Flora Miller Biddle, Honorary Chairman of the Whitney Museum and granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, will address Head For Titanic Memorial, 1922 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942).
Named in honor of the Whitney’s new address, 99 Gansevoort Street, 99 Objects is a series of in-gallery programs focusing on individual works of art from the Museum’s collection on view in America Is Hard to See. Speakers include artists, writers, Whitney curators and educators, and an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Programs take place daily.
Free with Museum admission.
