American patron of the arts and sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 - 1942), the great-granddaughter of American railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and the wife of American financier Harry Payne Whitney, at the dedication ceremony of her monument the Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial on Memorial Day in Washington Heights, New York, New York, May 30, 1922. Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney Museum of Amercan Art in 1931. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)
