It is hard to believe that the Whitney Museum of American Art had started its way in a small carriage house, but when Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Museum in 1931, she set it up in her own studio on West Eighth Street in Greenwich Village.
The Greenwich Village’s Whitney
It is hard to believe that the Whitney Museum of American Art had started its way in a small carriage house, but when Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Museum in 1931, she set it up in her own studio on West Eighth Street in Greenwich Village.