Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2009 Celebrating the First 50 Years of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art* *Ed. note: the Whitney Gallery of Western Art was renamed the […]
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Three Women Who Preserved Buffalo Bill’s Legacy – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2017 Three Women Who Preserved Buffalo Bill’s Legacy By Peter H. HassrickCurator Emeritus & Senior Scholar In 2017, the Buffalo Bill Center of the […]
Treasures from Our West: Photograph, Buffalo Bill’s family at construction site of first Buffalo Bill Museum
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2017 Photograph: Buffalo Bill’s family at construction site of first Buffalo Bill Museum Seven years after the death of William F. “Buffalo […]
A Video Celebration of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
The cornerstone of our Whitney Western Art Museum’s collection is a monumental sculpture of William F. Cody by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Buffalo Bill—The Scout. View the video below to learn […]
Meet a few of our Founders
Mary Jester Allen The history of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West begins with Mary Jester Allen after the passing of her famous uncle in 1917. She dreamed of […]
Forged & Founded: Western American Sculpture, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney as Sculptor
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known for her role as an art patron and the founder of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Yet she also had a significant […]
