Women Who Founded New York Greatest Art Museums

When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's offer to gift her collection was refused, she built a museum of her own and filled it with American masterworks. (Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning (1930); Oil on canvas, 89.4 × 153 cm)

A photo of a woman sculpting in an artist’s studio, surrounded by statues, paired with Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning, depicting a quiet street of storefronts. The left captures a moment of creative focus, while the painting on the right conveys stillness and urban simplicity.

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Women Who Founded New York Greatest Art Museums