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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 ...
Laurance Rockefeller. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was an American businessman, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. Rockefeller was the third son and fourth child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he provided venture capital for ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller et sa belle-fille, Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller pendant l'inauguration du Radio City Music Hall au Rockfeller Center, à New... Writer Tina Brown attends the 40th Annual Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in The Museum...
Mary Ellen Chase. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller personal portrait of the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., joyfull, unpredictable, animated Abby Rockefeller, this permits the intrusion of no frailty, subdues the background of Legendary wealth with New England severity, and is almost suspect in its perfection. At any rate, she is shown as a young girl; in her later courtship by John D. -- serious ...
7. Mai 2020 · Installation. Explore more. Since its opening in 1939, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden has been one of NYC’s most beloved green spaces. It was conceived as an outdoor gallery for changing installations that would bring nature, architecture, and art together in a new way. In 1953, the Sculpture Garden was redesigned by Philip Johnson, the first director of the architecture ...
In 1953, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Gallery,at the MoMA opened to showcase Japanese woodblock prints from the RISD museum’s permanent collection. A supporter of the advancement and welfare of women, Rockefeller was one of the charter founders of the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. She was also a member of numerous women’s clubs, the ...
8. Aug. 2019 · From behind the scenes Abby helped direct the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg and the building of Rockefeller Center. “Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a legendary figure, a woman of great wealth and power who used them for great good — in often cunning ways. Astonishingly, no one has written her story before. Now Bernice Kert has done so ...
