Artist/Real Estate
Centurion, 1889–1905
Born 2 September 1860 in Irvington, New York
Died 4 July 1905 in Southampton, New York
Buried Southampton Cemetery
, Southampton, New York
Proposed by Stephen P. Nash and Charles Coolidge Haight
Elected 5 October 1889 at age twenty-nine
Century Memorial
As an artist Harry Whitney McVickar may be said to have made a distinct field for himself, shooting the follies of Anglomania when it first tried its feeble but ambitious wings a score of years since. His contributions to Life after his graduation from Columbia and the completion of his art studies were marked by extreme fidelity to the models with which he was familiar, by a keen realization of character, and a wholesome, if sometimes slightly cruel, contempt of sham. His successful career in the business of real estate and banking—he was Vice-President of the Empire Trust Company, President of the McVickar-Gaillard Realty Company, Director of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, and Treasurer of Gaillard & Company—won him from the pursuit in which he was making steady progress. But his essential aims were still literary and artistic, and at the time of his relatively early death he had written a book of recognized merit, published posthumously.
Edward Cary
1906 Century Association Yearbook