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Wheelock Whitney III | |
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| Born | October 3, 1949 |
| Occupation | Art collector |
| Known for | Member of prominent Whitney family |
| Board member of | Scenic Hudson: 1994-2003; 2009-present[1] |
| Spouse | Sandro Cagnin[2] |
| Relatives | Wheelock Whitney, Jr., father Wheelock Whitney, Sr., grandfather Benson Whitney, brother |
Wheelock "Lock" Whitney III (born October 3, 1949, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American art collector and dealer.[3]
- ^ Scenic Hudson (December 18, 2009). "Scenic Hudson Names New Board Members". Scenic Hudson. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ Billy Farrell Agency (September 7, 2012). "Lock Whitney". www.bfanyc.com. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ Holland Cotter (January 25, 2013). "'The Path of Nature,' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art". The New York Times. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
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."