Whitney Museum of American Art Early years When was the Museum created? she created in 1918 Who was museum named for? Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney,
Who was she?
Who was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney?
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's namesake and founder, was herself a well-regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector. As a patron of the arts, she had already achieved some success as the creator of the "Whitney Studio Club", a New York-based exhibition space which she created in 1918 to promote the works of avant-garde and unrecognized American artists. Whitney favored the radical art of the American artists of the Ashcan School such as John Sloan, George Luks and Everett Shinn, as well as others such as Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Max Weber.  With the aid of her assistant, Juliana R. Force, Whitney had collected nearly 700 works of American art. In 1929, she offered to donate over 500 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but the museum declined the gift. This, along with the apparent preference for European modernism at the recently opened Museum of Modern Art, led Whitney to start her own museum, exclusively for American art, in 1929.  Whitney Library archives from 1928 reveal that during this time the Studio Club utilized the gallery space of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong of the Art Students League to exhibit traveling shows featuring Modernist works. In 1931, architect Noel L. Miller converted three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village - one of which had been the location of the "Studio Club" - to be the museum's home as well as a residence for Whitney. Force became the first director of the museum, and under her guidance, the museum concentrated on displaying the works of new and contemporary American artists.  In 1954, the museum left its original location and moved to a small structure on 54th Street connected to and behind the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street. On April 15, 1958, a fire on the second floor of MOMA that killed one person forced the evacuation of paintings and staff on MOMA's upper floors to the Whitney. Among the paintings moved in the evacuation was A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte which had been on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. CANNOTANSWER
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's namesake and founder,
Princess Yeondeok (연덕궁주, 延德宮主; ) was a title given to the Goryeo Queen Consort or Royal Consort. Those who held this title may lived in Yeondeok Palace (연덕궁, 延德宮), they may refer to: 
Queen Wonhye (원혜왕후), the first consort who held this title. She was King Hyeonjong's 4th wife.
Queen Inye (인예왕후), the second consort who held this title. She was King Munjong's 3rd wife.
Queen Myeongui (명의왕후), the third consort who held this title. She was King Sukjong's only wife.
Queen Sundeok (순덕왕후), the fourth consort who held this title. She was King Yejong's 2nd wife.
Deposed Queen Yi (폐비 이씨), the fifth consort who held this title. She was King Injong's 1st wife.
Queen Gongye (공예왕후), the sixth consort who held this title. She was King Injong's 3rd wife. 
Queen Wondeok (원덕왕후), the seventh consort who held this title. She was King Gangjong's 2nd wife. Charlotte Tidswell (c. 1760 – 3 September 1846) was an English actress.

Life
Tidswell was born in 1759 or 1760 and her father may have been a soldier. She may have been acting for five years when her name was first mentioned when she appeared with the company creating "The Busy Body" at Drury Lane. This would end up being her main theatre. She had been the mistress of Charles Howard who was a Duke of Norfolk and it was conjectured that this was the reason she started at Drury Lane.

In 1787 Edmund Kean was born. The identify of his mother is unknown and many suspected that Tidswell who was known to have as "Aunt Tid" was his mother. She certainly mothered him and took an interest in him as he developed into an acting prodigy and she steered his career. His father figure was Moses Kean who was a solo performer, but it is not certain who Edmund's father was. One source says that it was Moses younger brother. Moses died in 1792.

Tidswell would act during the winter at Drury Lane but she never took a leading role. She changed address frequently and that is thought to have been due to finances. She was earning about three pounds a weeks although in time she would get an annual benefit performance and during the summer she would take other acting roles. In the summer she was usually in Liverpool, but sometimes in Brighton. In the winter she might play a named Shakespearean role like the Duchess of York in Richard III or Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. It was noted at the time that although she never played a leading part she attracted a large amount of attention from the critics. She played courtesans and women of poor character but she was applauded for not confusing her character's shortcomings with her own private life.

She was a respectable actor when she decided to retire on 21 May 1822. As was the custom, there was a benefit performance for her and Edmund Kean was there to  oversee proceedings and convey her thanks to those present. She returned Kean's kindness and as he went into old age she would care for him at his home in Richmond. He died in 1833.

Tidswell died at her home in Chelsea in 1846.

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1846 deaths
18th-century English actresses
19th-century English actresses
People from Chelsea, London Mary Ann Orger or Mary Ann Ivers (25 February 1788 – 1 October 1849) she was a leading actress, playwright and the mother of the composer Caroline Reinagle.

Life
Ives was born in London in 1788. Her father was a musician and her mother was an actress who also allowed her daughter to appear. At a young age she was being carried on to the stage and she was on the playbill at the age of five.

By the age of fifteen she was admired by Thomas Orger who married her in 1804. She returned to the stage and in Edinburgh in 1806 she made £78 as a result of a benefit performance.

She was a leading actress and the mother of the composer Caroline Reinagle who was born in 1817.

In 1807 she appeared in Glasgow as Caroline Sedley in James Kenney's False Alarm in a benefit for the singer and actress Rosoman Mountain.

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1788 births
1849 deaths
Actresses from London
19th-century British women singers