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The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden is an outdoor courtyard at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York City. Designed by notable architect Philip Johnson, the courtyard was conceived at the same time as Johnson's West Wing annex for the museum.
6. Okt. 2012 · 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. The western ...
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 ...
This unique garden at the Preserve holds a prominent place in American garden history, both as the work of a distinguished designer and as the representation of a time of significant growth and development in American landscape design. The combined artistry, imagination, and passion of the garden’s designer, Beatrix Farrand, and her clients ...
7. Mai 2020 · Online. Since its opening in 1939, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden has been one of NYC’s most beloved green spaces. It was conceived as an outdoor gallery for changing installations that would bring nature, architecture, and art together in a new way.
13. Apr. 2017 · Gardens + Landscapes. Inside Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's Wondrous Maine Garden. The Asian-inspired garden by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand is featured in a new book. By Mitchell...
11. Aug. 2022 · Many have admired works by Picasso, Calder, and Maillol at the tranquil Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden that graces the Museum of Modern Art, but few know how instrumental the garden's namesake was to the building of MoMA and to ushering in the avant-garde in NYC during early 20th century.
