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Hace 10 horas · 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.
Hace 2 días · Kykuit fue diseñada originalmente como una mansión de piedra de tres plantas y tejado inclinado por los arquitectos Chester Holmes Aldrich y William Adams Delano. Aldrich era pariente lejano de la esposa del joven Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, que participó como asesora artística y en el diseño interior de la mansión.
13 de may. de 2024 · The Rockefeller family was also intimately involved with Mexican art through the activities of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who in 1929 had co-founded the Museum...
7 de may. de 2024 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the three founders of The Museum of Modern Art, 1922. Photo courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Rockefeller Archive Center. Even MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr Jr., who championed the exhibition of living artists, took extensive advice from his erudite wife Margaret Scolari Barr.
7 de may. de 2024 · Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, an initiative that explores the nexus of cognition, art, and media. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism.
9 de may. de 2024 · In 1901 Rockefeller married Abby Greene Aldrich (1874–1948), daughter of U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. As an art collector, she was instrumental in the founding of the Museum of Modern Art. They had six children—a daughter, Abby (1903–76), and five sons: John D. III, Nelson A., Laurance S., Winthrop, and David.
Hace 3 días · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan decided over lunch in 1928 to create a museum focused on modern art, inspired by European institutions like the Musée du...
