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22 Dec Merton Clivette, “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney” circa 1910-1920, Oil on canvas 15 x 15 inches

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[gallery type="rectangular" ids="8865,8866,8867,8868"] The four portraits of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney above iclude the oil painting by Robert Henri at the Whitney Museum, New York. Clivette's studio in te 1920s at 1 Sheridan Square was only a few blocks from Gertrude Whitney's home, the first location...

22 Dec Merton Clivette, “Jungle Argument,” circa 1910-1925, Oil on canvas 46 x 36 inches. Exhibited 1930, MOMA, New York, “Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans”

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Merton Clivette (1868-1931) was highly regarded in his lifetime, a man of many talents with a varied career as an acrobat, palmist, juggler, astrologer, reporter, and author before devoting himself to art from 1910-1930. He settled in Greenwich Village in the first decade of the...

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22 Dec Merton Clivette, “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney” circa 1910-1920, Oil on canvas 15 x 15 inches

22 Dec Merton Clivette, “Jungle Argument,” circa 1910-1925, Oil on canvas 46 x 36 inches. Exhibited 1930, MOMA, New York, “Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans”