A century-old memorial by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the sculptor who founded the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been restored at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. The restoration of the Samuel Untermyer memorial began in 2024 and was marked with a ribbon-cutting on October 3. The memorial is a complex tableau: one figure turns to gaze down at the viewer, another kneels reaching toward a third who soars upward with arms lifted. Metal doors that hide or reveal the scene are decorated with flowers on the interior and allegorical scenes on the exterior, including a mother holding her baby and a pair whose bodies sway together. Long-hidden overgrowth that concealed the side entrance and imposing rough-hewn wall was cleared away, and new plantings of magnolias, holly and ferns were added following the original design, joining century-old survivors such as a pair of tulip trees and a large Atlas blue cedar. A whispering bench with paw feet was cleaned, a bronze fountain adorned with griffins was removed and restored, and the bluestone Star of David beneath it, fractured into shards over the years, was entirely rebuilt. The memorial was commissioned by Samuel Untermyer after the death of his wife Minnie in 1924. A prominent lawyer whom the press called Hitler's Bitterest Foe for leading anti-Nazi Germany boycotts in the 1930s, Untermyer was a noted patron of the arts whose passion for horticulture lives on in the gardens of his former Yonkers estate, under restoration since 2011. The project revives one of Whitney's most elaborate sculptural commissions, a reminder that the founder of America's flagship museum of contemporary art was also a sought-after public sculptor of memorials and monuments.