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7. Feb. 2018 · The Rockefellers and the road to Modern Art. David Rockefeller’s outstanding collection of paintings was greatly influenced by the advice of Alfred Barr, the first director of MoMA. John Elderfield, a former curator at the museum, tells the story of the two men’s friendship. David Rockefeller in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden ...
She was not an expert on modern art, but she was a close friend of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and held a legendary weekly cultural salon at her apartment. She was also the main benefactor of New York's Dalton School and deeply interested in experimental education. She chaired the Museum's first membership committee and was chairman of the education committee in the early 1930s.
2. Apr. 2014 · Early Life and Family. Born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the third of six children born to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his first wife, Abby Aldrich ...
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 ...
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.
12. Okt. 1993 · Rockefeller lived under the thumb of her husband and yet learned to thrive and have her way, enough to give us the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg. I found it hard to believe the constraints she had and yet the money that surrounded her. I read this book several years ago and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
20. Okt. 2020 · 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 ...
