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NARRATOR: In the 1920s Abby Rockefeller [music in], Lillie Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan had a vision for the future. 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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
5. Apr. 2007 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874–1948) was the wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a prominent arts patron in her own right. She and her husband began to collect Asian art in the early 1920s. Hundreds of her Japanese woodblock prints were later given to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, where a gallery was named for her. Also in the early 1920s, she started collecting American folk art ...
13. Apr. 2017 · April 13, 2017. A Ming-dynasty buddha Amitabha, made of gilt bronze, gleams at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor, Maine. Photo: Larry Lederman/Courtesy of the Monacelli press ...
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