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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 ...
Designed by Beatrix Farrand with her clients and philanthropists, Abby and John D. Rockefeller Jr., the garden is one of the most elegant and impressive gardens in the United States. According to the website, in 1961 David Rockefeller, Sr.’s wife Peggy took on responsibility for each year’s design of the flower beds. After Peggy’s death ...
As you walk around or sit down and relax here in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, let me tell you a little about its history. In 1939, at 11 West 53rd Street, a sculpture garden was included in the first permanent home of The Museum of Modern Art. Director Alfred Barr and Architecture curator John McAndrew designed it in a single ...
MARJORIE SCHWARZER: While John D. Rockefeller was founding Colonial Williamsburg down in Virginia, his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was founding the nation's most-important contemporary-art museum. DAVID ROCKEFELLER: I was the youngest of six children, so I spent a lot of time with Mother, visiting museums and seeing paintings.
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Abby Rockefeller. Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller (born 1943) is an American feminist, ecologist, and member of the Rockefeller family. She was a member of Cell 16, a radical feminist organization, in the 1970s. She also founded the Clivus Multrum company, which manufactures composting toilets .
Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948) Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was the fourth of ten children of Abby Pearce Truman Chapman and Nelson Aldrich, who built his fortune in the sugar and rubber trade, banking, and public utilities. Aldrich was also an influential United States Senator from Rhode Island for thirty years.
6. Okt. 2012 · Designed By. In 1953, architect Philip Johnson and landscape architect James Fanning designed a Modernist sculpture garden for the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan, dedicated to patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The rectangular, open-air courtyard was set on two levels and paved in long, rectilinear slabs of Vermont marble.
