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The Museum of Modern Art under construction in 1939. Photo courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center. New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened in 1929 through the efforts of three women, including Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, mother of the five founding RBF trustees. It has been a significant interest of the Rockefeller family ever since.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, née le 26 octobre 1874 à Providence (Rhode Island) et morte le 5 avril 1948 à New York, est une socialite et philanthrope américaine. Grâce à son mariage avec le financier et philanthrope John D. Rockefeller Jr. , elle est devenue un membre éminent de la famille Rockefeller .
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Designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and built in 1955, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall comprises the Abby Dining Room, Abby Lounge, Cohn Library and the Faculty and Student's Club.
As you walk around or sit down and relax here in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, let me tell you a little about its history. In 1939, at 11 West 53rd Street, a sculpture garden was included in the first permanent home of The Museum of Modern Art. Director Alfred Barr and Architecture curator John McAndrew designed it in a single ...
"Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 ? April 5, 1948) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was especially noteworthy for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November 1929 ...
NARRATOR: In the 1920s Abby Rockefeller [music in], Lillie Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan had a vision for the future. MARJORIE SCHWARZER: While John D. Rockefeller was founding Colonial Williamsburg down in Virginia, his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was founding the nation's most-important contemporary-art museum.
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