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Sunday. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Art is in the eye of the beholder. In the galleries of the folk art museum, you'll discover an amazing variety of paintings, sculptures, and other objects created by talented, self-trained artists and craftsmen. In fact, it's one of the largest collections of American folk art. Accessible.
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. Nelson Rockefeller served as president beginning in ...
John D., Jr. and Abby's former home, The Eyrie (photo to the right), was removed in 1963, yet the family chose to preserve the home’s terrace. Today the terrace provides a quiet walk for guests of the garden, and a view to the outer islands and the stretching Atlantic beyond them. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden was created between 1926 ...
William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906) ⚭ am 18. Februar 1837 Eliza Davison (1813–1889) John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) ⚭ Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1839–1915) Elizabeth Rockefeller (1866–1906) Alta Rockefeller (1871–1962) Edith Rockefeller (1872–1932) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960) ⚭ Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874–1948)
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.
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 ...
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 ...
