It all seemed so predictable. The news that the heir of the Rockefeller fortune was marrying the daughter of a prominent Rhode Island senator made headlines in the fall of 1901. But Abby Aldrich, the ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Born in 1874, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a socialite and philanthropist. Rockefeller launched into her charitable acts when the U.S. entered World War I, financing the work of ...
A prominent figure in the history of American landscape design, Beatrix Farrand née Jones (1872-1959) was the mastermind behind the idyllic grounds of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount ...
(See front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, ...
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 ...
WILLIAMSBURG - Colonial Williamsburg is more than costumed interpreters in tricorn hats making speeches about revolution or craftsmen demonstrating silversmithing and other trades. The restored ...
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, 1976. "Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center," Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1989, no.
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