Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Art Journal, 1906-1907

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) was a sculptor, art patron, writer, and the founder of the Whitney Museum of Art. She began keeping diaries as a child, and maintained the habit into her adulthood. In her Art Journal, dating from 1906-1907, Whitney recorded her "thoughts relating to art, subjects for statues, composition symbols, all manner of substances which affects [her] artistic life." This, and her other diaries, and extensive material which documents her life and career are fully digitized and available through the Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney Papers on the Archives of American Art website.