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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.
1. Jan. 2000 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller used her public role as the daughter and wife of well-known and powerful men of politics and industry to exercise philanthropic leadership. She was a cultural reformer, her mission to democratize the art to which she had been so privileged. Art, she believed, had the power to transform lives. With this notion, relentless energy, and care, she founded the first American ...
Like Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Bliss had hopes of establishing a permanent collection of modern art within the city, and in 1929 the two women, along with Mary Sullivan, another friend sympathetic to their cause, had lunch with A. Conger Goodyear, the president of the Albright Gallery of Buffalo and also a modern-art enthusiast. At the meeting, the Museum of Modern Art was launched, with ...
Bernice Kert. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: the woman in the family The author of Hemingway's Women , which offered new insights into the sources of that famously macho writer's creativity, once again illuminates the impact of a powerful female on American culture and society. Daughter of influential U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich and wife of industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr., Abby Aldrich ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller war gewähltes Stiftungsratsmitglied, Vizepräsidentin (1934–1936) sowie erste stellvertretende Vorsitzende (1941–1945). 1935 schenkte sie dem Museum 181 Gemälde und Zeichnungen; 1939 36 Skulpturen sowie 45 Arbeiten der amerikanischen Volkskunst. Zwischen 1940 und 1946 kamen noch ca. 1700 Drucke aus ihrer Sammlung ...
683 reviews. #6 of 107 things to do in Williamsburg. Art Museums. Closed now. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Write a review. About. 19th-century folk household objects (toys, kitchenware, paintings, furniture, etc.) are on display at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. Suggest edits to improve what we show.
Closed now. 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Write a review. About. Reservations are required to visit this garden. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine was created between 1926 and 1930 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and noted garden designer Beatrix Farrand. Set within acres of moss-carpeted woods, the garden is ...
