Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney

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Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney (born May 18, 1909 in Baltimore , † March 25, 1998 in Manhasset , New York ) was an American art collector and philanthropist .

Life

She was the daughter of American neurologists Harvey Cushing and Katharine Stone Crowell and grew up with two brothers and two sisters. Her older sister Mary Benedict Cushing married the Astor heir Vincent Astor . Her younger sister Babe Cushing married William S. Paley , the founder of the American television station CBS .

Cushing Roosevelt Whitney collected a large number of works of art in the course of her life, including by important European impressionists.

Her first marriage was the eldest son James Roosevelt of the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Cushing Roosevelt Whitney was the second wife of the US diplomat John Hay Whitney . The couple lived in their summer home on Fishers Island , in a luxury apartment in Manhattan, in a property on Long Island , on Greenwood Plantation in Georgia and in a property in Saratoga Springs , New York.

Owned by Cushing Roosevelt Whitney (selection)

literature

  • The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters by David Grafton (Villard 1992)
  • Last Cushing sister dies: Betsey Whitney outlived husbands , by Enid Nemy, The New York Times, March 26, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Whitney, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cushing, Betsey (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art collector and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1958
Place of death Manhasset , New York