Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich
type Collector
dates 1874-1948
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesProvidence, RI; Williamsburg, VA; Pocantico Hills, NY, Seal Harbor, ME;
sex F
history 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.
decades1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
websitehttp://archive.rockefeller.edu/bio/abby.php
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Repository Description Links
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
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
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 dates 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...

see alsoRockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960
Rockefeller, David, 1915-