Item Information
Title: Photograph of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with her sculpture for the Washington Heights World War I memorial
Date: 1921 or 1922
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : silver gelatin ; 32 x 26
Description: Signed by photographer in lower right corner.
Note on verso (handwritten): 1921-2, Washington Heights war mem.
Black and white photograph shows Whitney wearing a smock and holding sculpting tools in one hand, the other resting on the head of one of the soldiers in her sculpture.
Any citation of this collection must include the following title designated by the donor: Whitney Museum of American Art, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers. Gift of Flora Miller Irving.
Creator: Fairchild, Charlotte, 1876-1927, photographer
Forms part of: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, 1851-1975, bulk 1888-1942
Rights Statement: U.S. public domain
Citation Information: Charlotte Fairchild. Photograph of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with her sculpture for the Washington Heights World War I memorial, 1921 or 1922. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, 1851-1975. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 14266