Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By the late Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, $2,500,000; to charities, the residue of her estate...
Poster propaganda of two wars and prints inspired by six wars are among the five exhibit problems solved and presented by the Museum Class in the second-floor galleries of Fogg Art Museum...
...first time in its 22-year-history, the Art Directors Club this time crashed the gates of the holiest sanctum of the U.S. art world, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, proudly hung its 301 hand-picked covers and ads near the museum's austere obelisks and mummies. Trends...
...heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...
...husky-voiced Peggy Guggenheim, niece of philanthropic Copper Tycoon Solomon Guggenheim. Peggy Guggenheim, who loves to sport eight-inch earrings and a housecoat made entirely of peach-colored feathers, does no painting herself, but practically supports the group by collecting its pictures, plans next fall to open a Manhattan museum where they can be shown...