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11. Jan. 2017 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller to Colonel Arthur Woods, February 10, 1932, AARFAM research files. 9. Cahill spent eighteen months in 1934–1935 travelling in search of folk art for Rockefeller’s collection. Ultimately, he discovered and helped to acquire more than forty objects that are now part of the museum.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden. The 2024 summer season runs from July 9 through September 8. The garden opens from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday; Fridays and Sundays are member days. Reservations are required and can be made beginning May 6 for Preserve members and May 20 for non-members. Volunteer in the Garden. Tips for Visiting.
The Museum of Modern Art under construction in 1939. 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.
"Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 ? April 5, 1948) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was especially noteworthy for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November 1929 ...
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 ...
7. Juli 2020 · 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. All three women believed the US needed an institution that would actively champion ...
Bernice Kert. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: the woman in the family The author of Hemingway's Women , which offered new insights into the sources of that famously macho writer's creativity, once again illuminates the impact of a powerful female on American culture and society. Daughter of influential U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich and wife of industrialist John D. Rockefeller Jr., Abby Aldrich ...