Flora Miller Biddle is the granddaughter of the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931.

Ms. Biddle has published four books: The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made (2017, 1999), Embers (2011), The Ads (co-authored with Fiona Donovan and Mark Donovan, 2010), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, A Biography (1978).

Ms. Biddle was President of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1977 to 1995 and is a lifetime trustee. She served on the New York City Art Commission from 1980-1990. She received her BA from Manhattanville College in 1978.

She has 4 children, 9 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

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