Sculptures land in Florida
Work by sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, reared in a castle on
Bergdorf Goodman’s site, known for “poor little rich girl” niece Gloria
Vanderbilt and for founding the Whitney Museum, is now in West Palm
Beach’s Norton Museum of American Art. The show, which took years to
research, does Oyster Bay’s Coe Mansion near the family’s Old Westbury
Gold Coast seat, then Newport, RI.
Writer
Gregory Speck suggested mounting it in NYC’s Whitney, the museum she
herself founded. A curator involved answered: “They do contemporary art.
You think they’d be at all interested?”