Flora Miller Biddle
Flora Miller Biddle | |
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Born | Flora Miller 1928 |
Education | Manhattanville College |
Occupation | Patron of the arts |
Spouses | Michael Henry Irving
(m. 1947; div. 1979)Sydney Francis Biddle
(died) |
Children | 4, including Fiona Donovan |
Parent(s) | Flora Payne Whitney George Macculloch Miller III |
Family | Whitney family Vanderbilt family |
Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928) is an American author, honorary chairman, and former president of the
Biography
Biddle was born to
She attended
She became a museum trustee in 1958 and president of the Whitney in 1977.
Biddle obtained her degree from
She divorced Irving in 1979 and married Sydney Francis Biddle (1918-2004), a lawyer turned artist trained at Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Biddle was a member of the Biddle family of Philadelphia and a nephew of Francis Biddle, who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and the main American judge during the Nuremberg trials.[11][12][13]
She stepped down as president and chairman during the mid-1990s. Her daughter, Fiona Donovan, a Barnard College and Columbia University-trained art historian,[14] served as trustee until 2003. Donovan was brought back to the board in 2014 by director Adam D. Weinberg.[2][15] Biddle's granddaughters, fifth-generation members of the Whitney family, Flora Donovan and Flora Irving, were also made trustees of the Whitney in the same year.[2]
Written works
- The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir, Arcade Publishing, 1999
- Embers of Childhood: Growing Up a Whitney, Arcade Publishing, 2019
References
- OCLC 1076476310.
- ^ a b c d e Kazanjian, Dodie. "Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Heirs Are Back on the Board at the Family's Spanking-New Museum". Vogue. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Michelle Obama: The Whitney Is for 'Dreaming'". Vulture. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ Columnist, DR TOM MACK. "ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Aiken-based memoir republished last year". Aiken Standard. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Hagley Museum and Library: Carolyn M. Irving collection of prints and photographs (1969.065) -- Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department". findingaids.hagley.org. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ a b "The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "CALDER'S CIRCUS: The Artist as Reporter and Inventor". Voices in Contemporary Art. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Flora Biddle". kentpresents.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- OCLC 318877218.
- ^ "biddle-descendants - Main". www.picton.us. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "FIONA IRVING BECOMES A BRIDE". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Whitney Stories: Fiona Donovan". whitney.org. Retrieved August 9, 2020.