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Winthrop Williams Aldrich (Erkek kardeş) Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (26 Ekim 1874 - 5 Nisan 1948), Amerikalı bir sosyete ve hayırsever. [1] Finansçı ve hayırsever John D. Rockefeller Jr. ile olan evliliği sayesinde Rockefeller ailesinin önemli bir üyesiydi. "Ailedeki kadın" olarak anılırdı. Kasım 1929'da New York 53.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden was created between 1926 and 1930 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and noted garden designer Beatrix Farrand (photo above). Set within acres of moss-carpeted woods, the garden is designed to be at floral peak in August. Its unique atmosphere is derived from a combination of Eastern statuary with a border garden in ...
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.
1 de ene. de 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.
The garden you're standing in today was designed in 1953 by MoMA's Director of Architecture and Design, Philip Johnson, and is dedicated to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the Museum's founders. Her townhouse home once stood on this site. The garden evolved through a series of renovations over the next half-century.
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the third of six children of John D. Rockefeller and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; he was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Maine. He attended the Lincoln School, a division of the Teachers College of Columbia University. In 1930, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, with a B.A. in economics.
Sunday. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Art is in the eye of the beholder. In the galleries of the folk art museum, you'll discover an amazing variety of paintings, sculptures, and other objects created by talented, self-trained artists and craftsmen. In fact, it's one of the largest collections of American folk art. Accessible.
