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WHITNEY.      -5-

course at the Art Students' League. Later in Paris she studied under Andrew O'Connor and Rodin.
Mrs. Whitney entered into her chosen work with the zest and zeal of a true artist; but public recognition, as is proverbially the case in any form of creative art, was exasperatingly slow in presenting itself. Her high social position, unfortunately, militated against a serious and unbiased consideration of her work. For a time the world could not believe that her interest in art was anything more than that of a talented dilettante, but agains this skepticism Mrs. Whitney used a most effective weapon: Technique. Moreover, in the nature of an ally, was the universally known truism that genius knows no boundaries; has no distinctions of class, color, country or creed; and recognizes neither sex nor time, conditions nor environment. Her cause was further sponsored by that in tangible thing called the "divine afflatus", which Mrs. Whitney incontrovertibly