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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made about Whitney, Museum, Gertrude with the genre: Arts & Photography, History & Criticism.
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conversations.value: The history of the Whitney Museum is a riveting drama that begins with Gertrude, the oldest daughter of the heir to the biggest American family fortune of the day--the Vanderbilts. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor and art lover, opened the Whitney Studio in 1914 on Eighth Street in lower New York City. She then funded and ran the institution that evolved into the Whitney Museum of American Art until her death in 1942. When she died, she passed the reins on to her daughter Flora Whitney Miller, who bequeathed it to the author, the author of this book. the author's own daughter Fiona, currently a museum trustee, represents the fourth generation of Whitney women to influence the direction of what has become one of the world's most prominent art institutions. The Whitney women, through their roles variously as administrators, trustees, collectors, and artists, have shaped the structure and focus of the museum, a function played primarily by men at other museums. This mixture of memoir and history takes readers through the whirlwind of changes that the museum has undergone throughout its history, offering glimpses into a tumultuous arena in which the changing values of the art world and academia are constantly at play. the author writes that the Whitney has been, "in turn, mother, sister, child, and lover. It's given me a richer life than I could possibly have imagined for myself, and it's given me more pain, too--plus a true education." And she imparts some of that knowledge to readers here. <I>--A.C. Smith</I>
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conversations.value: Smith</I>. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor and art lover, opened the Whitney Studio in 1914 on Eighth Street in lower New York City. She then funded and ran the institution that evolved into the Whitney Museum of American Art until her death in 1942. When she died, she passed the reins on to her daughter Flora Whitney Miller, who bequeathed it to the author, the author of this book. the author's own daughter Fiona, currently a museum trustee, represents the fourth generation of Whitney women to influence the direction of what has become one of the world's most prominent art institutions. The Whitney women, through their roles variously as administrators, trustees, collectors, and artists, have shaped the structure and focus of the museum, a function played primarily by men at other museums. This mixture of memoir and history takes readers through the whirlwind of changes that the museum has undergone throughout its history, offering glimpses into a tumultuous arena in which the changing values of the art world and academia are constantly at play. the author writes that the Whitney has been, "in turn, mother, sister, child, and lover. It's given me a richer life than I could possibly have imagined for myself, and it's given me more pain, too--plus a true education." And she imparts some of that knowledge to readers here. <I>--A.C.The history of the Whitney Museum is a riveting drama that begins with Gertrude, the oldest daughter of the heir to the biggest American family fortune of the day--the Vanderbilts.
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conversations.value: Provide the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made
  My final editing was done at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Its serenity, warm embrace, and beauty made it possible to concentrate and work productively.
  While I'll appreciate forever the help and support I've received from all these wonderful friends and family members, I want to emphasize that all errors, lapses, inconsistencies, and other faults are mine alone.
  Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, just before the Whitney Museum of American Art opening, November 17, 1931. Edward Steichen, reprinted with permission of Joanna Steichen.
  Four generations: (from left) Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney); her granddaughter, Pamela Tower (Mrs. Thomas LeBoutillier); her mother, Alice Gwynne (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II); and her daughter, Flora Whitney Miller (Mrs. George Macculloch Miller).
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conversations.value: Juliana Force, first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in her apartment above the Museum. Cecil Beaton.
  The opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931. Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Whitney Museum of American Art.
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conversations.value: Juliana Force, first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in her apartment above the Museum. Cecil Beaton. Copyright © Whitney Museum of American Art. 
  The opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931. Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Whitney Museum of American Art.
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conversations.value: Flora Whitney Miller and Edward Hopper in front of Hopper's painting, Early Sunday Morning, 1961. Brooks Elder.
  Flora Biddle, Elizabeth Petrie, trustee and chair of the building committee for the Graves building, and Frank Stella, at his exhibition at the Whitney in 1982.
  Flora Miller Biddle and Targa the elephant, on Madison Avenue, doing their best to save the circus, in front of the Whitney Museum, with clowns from the Ringling Bros. Barnum &c Bailey Circus, 1982. Helaine Messer.
  Flora Biddle celebrating the success of "Save the Calder Circus" campaign with Ringling Bros. friends, May 7, 1982. Helaine Messer.
  Flora Biddle, Fiona Donovan, and Jasper Johns at the opening of an exhibition of Johns' drawings at the Whitney, 1991. Jeanne Trudeau.