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Juliana Rieser Force
American art administrator
Also known as: Juliana Reiser Force
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History & Society
- Rieser also spelled:
- Reiser
- Born:
- Dec. 25, 1876, Doylestown, Pa., U.S.
- Died:
- Aug. 28, 1948, New York, N.Y. (aged 71)
Juliana Rieser Force (born Dec. 25, 1876, Doylestown, Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1948, New York, N.Y.) 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 Studio to ...(100 of 375 words)