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13. Apr. 2017 · April 13, 2017. A Ming-dynasty buddha Amitabha, made of gilt bronze, gleams at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor, Maine. Photo: Larry Lederman/Courtesy of the Monacelli press ...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, [1] was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family, he previously ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, nata Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich (Providence, 26 ottobre 1874 – New York, 5 aprile 1948), è stata una collezionista d'arte e filantropa statunitense, appartenente alla seconda generazione matriarcale della celebre famiglia Rockefeller. È particolarmente nota per essere stata la forza trainante dietro la costituzione del Museo d'Arte Moderna di New York, situato ...
Portrait of Abby Rockefeller. Abby Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was so intrigued by modern art – and especially by the artist Arthur B. Davies – that, along with two other women, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, she started the Museum of Modern Art in a rented space at 730 Fifth Avenue in New York in 1929.
Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism(2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005 ...
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 ...
Laurance Rockefeller was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Greene Aldrich. Laurance's grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., was the head of the Standard Oil Company. Laurance's father, John D. Rockefeller Jr., was an enthusiastic supporter of park-building and historic preservation, and the Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah ...
