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Oct 12, 1993 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family. Hardcover – October 12, 1993. The first complete biography of Abby Rockefeller, founder of the Museum of Modern Art and the woman who shaped the character and destiny of one of America's most powerful families. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
- Bernice Kert
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, 1903-1976. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé was born November 9, 1903, in New York City, the first of six children and the only daughter of Abby Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. She soon became known as “Babs” to family and friends to differentiate her from her mother. She attended Brearley School and Miss Chapin’s ...
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.
Their generous funding resulted in the creation of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, in Colonial Williamsburg is named in her honor. Abby Rockefeller suffered a heart attack and died on April 5, 1948 at the family home at 740 Park Avenue in New York City, at the age of 73.
MARJORIE SCHWARZER: While John D. Rockefeller was founding Colonial Williamsburg down in Virginia, his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was founding the nation's most-important contemporary-art museum. DAVID ROCKEFELLER: I was the youngest of six children, so I spent a lot of time with Mother, visiting museums and seeing paintings.
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After a courtship that lasted five years, Abby Aldrich married John D. Rockefeller at a lavish wedding ceremony on Warwick Neck, Rhode Island on October 9, 1901.
Nelson A. Rockefeller's love for art, and especially for contemporary art, originated with his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. She displayed her eclectic collection on the seventh floor of the Rockefeller home where Nelson grew up, and during his time at Dartmouth, she granted Nelson an art collecting allowance to cultivate his independent passion for collecting. [2]
