Background
Born in Connecticut, Whitney is the son of Wheelock Whitney, Junior. and Irene Hixon.
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Wheelock Whitney
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He is the grandson of Wheelock Whitney, Senior Whitney grew up in the Minnesota branch of the prominent American Whitney family and is of close relation to the Vanderbilt family. His published books include:
Gericault in Italy
He has contributed more than fifty notable 18thand 19th-century paintings, mainly French, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New New York
He is a philanthropist living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in the Town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New New York
