Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich

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role

Collector

dates

1874-1948

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Providence, RI; Williamsburg, VA; Pocantico Hills, NY, Seal Harbor, ME;

sex

F

historical notes

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was an art collector (Modern and Japanese art), patron, and one of three founders of the Museum of Modern Art.

Daughter of the Rhode Island senator, Nelson W. Aldrich, in 1901, she married to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960), son of the founder of Standard Oil Company, who was then a sophomore at Brown University.

Rockefeller gave her collection of modern art, including 1,600 prints, to the Museum of Modern Art. She left a collection of 700 bird-and-flower Japanese prints to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, where here sister, Lucy Aldrich’s collection of Asian textiles is also housed.

Abby gave an additional 106 Japanese prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1946.

decades
of activity

1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950

website

http://archive.rockefeller.edu/bio/abby.php

updated

10/31/2024 13:33:17

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Archives pamphlet file: Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 1874-1948 : miscellaneous uncataloged material.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Leslie Cheek papers, (bulk 1940-1942).	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Archives pamphlet file: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and print collecting : an early mission for MoMA . 1999- : miscellaneous uncataloged material.	see details...
New York University	Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980)	see details...
Rockefeller Archive Center 15 Dayton Avenue	Rockefeller Family Archives, 1819-1990, 1879-1961 (bulk).	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	General administrative files, 1930-1939.	see details...
Rockefeller Archive Center 15 Dayton Avenue	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Personal Papers, 1858-1957.	see details...
University of Nebraska, Lincoln Archives & Special Collections	John Corbin, Papers, 1894-1956.	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Scrapbooks, 1919-1941.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, bulk 1926-1969	see details...
College of William and Mary Manuscripts and Rare Books Department	Cole papers, 1786-1938.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Charles C. Adams papers, 1931-1948.	see details...
University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections	Letters, 1931-1940, to Lewis Mumford.	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Ione Ulrich Sutton Oral History, 1993	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Oral history, Edward M M Warburg, 1991	see details...
Rockefeller Archive Center 15 Dayton Avenue	General files. 1890-1961.	see details...
University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections	Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1928-1946.	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller albums, 1929-1941.	see details...