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Juliana Rieser Force
American art administrator
Also known as: Juliana Reiser Force
Quick Facts
- Rieser also spelled:
- Reiser
- Born:
- Dec. 25, 1876, Doylestown, Pa., U.S.
- Died:
- Aug. 28, 1948, New York, N.Y.
- Also Known As:
- Juliana Reiser Force
Juliana Rieser Force (born Dec. 25, 1876, Doylestown, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1948, New York, N.Y.) was an American art administrator, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose natural aesthetic sensitivity guided her strong influence on that institution’s development. Juliana Reiser (later changed to Rieser) at an early age went to work as a secretary. After directing a secretarial school in New York City, she became secretary to Helen Hay Whitney, wife of a prominent financier. In 1912 she married Willard B. Force. Two years later, when Helen Whitney’s sister-in-law, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, established the Whitney ...(100 of 377 words)
