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 more about sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the art world of the 1920s when she created this sculpture, and how the history of the Whitney Western […]
When I tell people I manage the Corporate Archive Blueprints for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, they immediately assume I am Harry Potter with the Marauders Map and I know interesting secret passage ways into the building. Alas, I have yet to find a Room of Requirement, the One-Eyed Witch Passage or moving […]
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of our patrons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose generosity and continued support of his mother’s founding contributions helped to shape the Whitney Western Art Museum into the great institution that it is today. Born in 1899 to Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt (nicknamed CV) went […]