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Like Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Bliss had hopes of establishing a permanent collection of modern art within the city, and in 1929 the two women, along with Mary Sullivan, another friend sympathetic to their cause, had lunch with A. Conger Goodyear, the president of the Albright Gallery of Buffalo and also a modern-art enthusiast. At the meeting, the Museum of Modern Art was launched, with ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, née le 26 octobre 1874 à Providence (Rhode Island) et morte le 5 avril 1948 à New York, est une socialite et philanthrope américaine. Grâce à son mariage avec le financier et philanthrope John D. Rockefeller Jr. , elle est devenue un membre éminent de la famille Rockefeller .
But Abby Aldrich, the bride, had more than a fairytale marriage in mind. "She was so gay and young and so in love with everything," said her smitten husband, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. — inadvertently emphasizing the features that made her decidedly un-Rockefeller. Armed with boundless enthusiasm, Abby took on the challenge of changing her new family from within. She would do that in profound ...
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. With this notion, relentless energy, and care, she founded the first American ...
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 ...
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 ...
7. Juli 2020 · 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.
