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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 ...
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 ...
7. Aug. 2019 · Closed now. 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Write a review. About. Reservations are required to visit this garden. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine was created between 1926 and 1930 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and noted garden designer Beatrix Farrand. Set within acres of moss-carpeted woods, the garden is ...
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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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 ...
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.
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.
