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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), one of the Museum's three founders and an avid collector of the print medium herself, was the single most important force in the establishment of the Print Department. While her foremost goal for the new Museum was to ...
12. Okt. 1993 · Abby Aldrich was the daughter of the powerful Senator from Rhode Island. As a young woman, she spent a great deal of time with her father because her mother was unwell. After her marriage to John Rockefeller in 1901, she had six children. John D. III was a reserved, religious man, forever trying to please his father, "Senior."
12. Juli 2004 · July 12, 2004 / 5:25 AM EDT / CBS/AP. Laurance Rockefeller, a conservationist, philanthropist and leading figure in the field of venture capital, died in his sleep Sunday morning. He was 94. The ...
16. Okt. 2000 · Article Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. After a courtship that lasted five years, Abby Aldrich married John D. Rockefeller at a lavish wedding ceremony on Warwick Neck, Rhode Island on October 9, 1901.
27. März 2019 · Even as Deskey was designing the Topside Gallery, Aldrich Rockefeller was working with Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan to develop what would become the Museum of Modern Art. The Topside Gallery was lost in 1938 when the Rockefellers’ townhouse was demolished to make room for MoMA’s first permanent building, opened the following year.
28. Mai 2024 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden. In 1910, philanthropist and industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller purchased a house in Seal Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, for a summer home. They weren’t the only ones. By the early 20th century, Maine’s cool summer months and natural beauty had drawn everyone ...
Junior’s wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, had entirely different tastes in art. She fell in love with modern art quite early, and was given a modest allowance by her husband to pursue that interest. With those funds and some inheritance she acquired works by young, struggling artists. Later, she organized other donors who created New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1934, Junior loosened the ...
