Wheelock Whitney (historian) explained
Wheelock "Lock" Whitney III (born October 3, 1949, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American art collector and dealer.[3]
Early life and education
Born in Connecticut, Whitney is the son of Wheelock Whitney, Jr. and Irene Hixon. He is the grandson of Wheelock Whitney, Sr. Whitney grew up in the Minnesota branch of the prominent American Whitney family and is of close relation to the Vanderbilt family.
Career
His published books include:
He has contributed more than fifty notable 18th- and 19th-century paintings, mainly French, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[4]
He is a philanthropist living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in the Town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York.[5] [6]
Personal life
He is the son of Wheelock Whitney, Jr., grandson of Wheelock Whitney, Sr., and the brother of Benson Whitney. His father married Chief Justice Kathleen A. Blatz of the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2005, who was five years his son's junior.
Notes and References
- News: Scenic Hudson. Scenic Hudson. Scenic Hudson Names New Board Members. Scenic Hudson. December 18, 2009. December 28, 2014.
- News: Billy Farrell Agency. Lock Whitney. www.bfanyc.com. September 7, 2012. December 28, 2014.
- News: Holland Cotter. Holland Cotter. 'The Path of Nature,' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lucky for them that one of those scholars is the collector and dealer Wheelock Whitney III, who has a passion for French art from the years between neo-Classicism and Romanticism, and a particular love for gleaming little oil sketches on paper done out of doors — en plein-air — in that time. For years he sought them out and bought them up. In 2003 he gave his pictures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where 50 of them make up the exhibition called “The Path of Nature: French Paintings From the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850.”. The New York Times. January 25, 2013. December 28, 2014.
- Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Search Results . www.metmuseum.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224148/http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?command=text&datascope=all&attr1=Wheelock+Whitney&x=20&y=4&c=t:11%2F%2F:ssl%2F%2Fsitemap+taxonomy%2F%2F:Works+of+Art: . 2007-09-30.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050415062349/http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/527/moveon_org_voter_fund.asp?rpg=31
- Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: European Paintings . www.metmuseum.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041211214443/http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=11&viewmode=1&item=2003%2E42%2E47§ion=prov . 2004-12-11.
