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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

by Mary Chase Ellen

Pages: 159

Contributors: Mary Chase Ellen

Publisher: Macmillan

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1950

Subjects: Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich

Table of Contents

Title Page

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

Illustrations

One Tetlows and Aldriches

Two Young Mr. Rockefeller

Three Early Years on West 54th Street

Four the Middle Years

Five the Later Years

Six Experiments in American Living

Seven Art in Our Time

Eight Fulfillment

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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Book by Mary Chase Ellen; Macmillan, 1950

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Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich

Collections: History, Entire Library

ILLUSTRATIONS ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER Frontispiece FACING PAGE ABBY ALDRICH AT SIX 8 THE BROAD STREET SCHOOLROOM 32 THE TETLOWS: ASENATH AND FANNY 66 MRS. ROCKEFELLER IN HER WEDDING GOWN 96 THE CHILDREN 122 MRS. ROCKEFELLER WITH GRANDCHILDREN 138
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Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela

Book by Darlene Rivas; University of North Carolina Press, 2002

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Economic Assistance, American--Venezuela--History--20th Century, Investments, American--Venezuela--History--20th Century, Rockefeller, Nelson A--(Nelson Aldrich)--1908-1979, Venezuela--Economic Policy

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...Hutch), 28 -31, 74 Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 15 , 21 , 184 , 227 (n...n. 27 ), 263 (n. 27 ) Rockefeller, David, 231 (n. 52...n. 93 ), 267 (n. 7 ) Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 11 , 34...
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I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything! An Investigative Biography of Nelson Rockefeller

Book by Michael Kramer, Sam Roberts; Basic Books, 1976

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Rockefeller, Nelson A--(Nelson Aldrich)--1908-1979

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Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich mother , 33, 39 , 41 , 49 , 187 Rockefeller, David brother , 8 , 20 , 22-23, 36 , 45 , 59...158 , I87, 257 , 269 , 271 , 303 , 337 , 340 , 367 Rockefeller, John D. grandfather , 9, 25 , 32 , 33 , 193...
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Dear Father/Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr

Book by Joseph W. Ernst, John D. Rockefeller Jr., John D. Rockefeller; Fordham University Press, 1994

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Capitalists And Financiers--United States--Correspondence, Industrialists--United States--Correspondence, Philanthropists--United States--Correspondence, Rockefeller, John D--(John Davison)--1839-1937--Correspondence, Rockefeller, John D--(John Davison)--1874-1960--Correspondence

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...Company, 122, 167-68 Prentice, Alta Rockefeller, 20, 226 Prentice, E. Parmelee, 20...Riverside Property, New York, 36-37 Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 22, 171, 201, 226 Rockefeller, Almira Goodsell, 96 Rockefeller, Blanchette...
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Nelson W. Aldrich, a Leader in American Politics

Book by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson; C. Scribners Sons, 1930

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Aldrich, Nelson W--(Nelson Wilmarth)--1841-1915, United States--Politics And Government--1865-1933

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...forth between Mr. Aldrich and a great friend...few days later Mr. Aldrich was writing Mr. Allison...wedding occurred -- Miss Abby Alrich and Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- and Indian...bower of flowers. Mr. Aldrich had taken the keenest...

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Exhibiting Identity: Latin America between the Imaginary and the Real

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Art exhibitions--Political aspects, Art, Latin American--Political aspects, Art, Latin American--Social aspects, Art--Exhibitions, Art--Political aspects, Arts and society--Political aspects, Latin America--Social aspects, Latin American art--Political aspects, Latin American art--Social aspects

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...Rockefeller family. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller...Crossroads for Rockefeller Center, commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller. Similar to...future enraged the Rockefellers who demanded...RG 4, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Personal Papers...
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Mural Gambits: Mexican Muralism in the United States and the "portable" Fresco

Journal article by Anna Indych-López; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007

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...for a fresco and Abby Aldrich Rockefellers role as patron...RCA Building at Rockefeller Center,54 they...following year, Rockefeller supplemented her...monies from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. In Twenty...
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Photography, Painting, and Charles Sheeler's View of New York

Journal article by Carol Troyen; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004

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Art criticism, Art history, Painting, Photography, Sheeler, Charles, Visual artists

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...with a clientele that included, among others, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller- offered him an exclusive arrangement to sell...already brokered the sale of American Landscape to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; several other pictures in the show would sell...
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Circuits of African Art / Paths of Wood: Exploring an Anthropological Trail

Journal article by Paul Stoller; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 2003

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Art, Black culture, Globalization

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...compelled rich patrons, including Abby Aldrich Rockefeller to create the Museum of Modern...its value. Meanwhile, Nelson Rockefeller began to collect "tribal...Africa and the Americas. When Rockefeller became MOMAs director in 1950...
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The Practice of Art History in America

Journal article by Thomas Crow; Daedalus, Vol. 135, 2006

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...financed by the devout John D. Rockefeller, Jr.--in order to create...the same years that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was financing the medievalists...his forward-looking wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, planted the seed of this development...

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The Peaceable Kingdoms of Edward Hicks

Magazine article by Stephen May; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999

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Art, Art and religion--Analysis, Paradise--Portrayals, Quakers

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...the huge Hicks trove at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg...childhood. One version from the Rockefeller Folk Art Center collection is...colonial Williamsburgs Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, is on view...
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Ban Builds at Moma

Magazine article by Paula Deitz; The Architectural Review, Vol. 208, September 2000

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...remembers Shigeru Bans Paper Arch, an exhibition at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York...sought a new temporary structure for what is now the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, as a reprise of the...
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The Art of Transparency: The Latest Phase in the Evolution of the Museum of Modern Art Refocuses, Refines and Adds to a Historic Urban Complex

Magazine article by Raymund Ryan; The Architectural Review, Vol. 217, February 2005

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...first moved into a townhouse belonging to John D. Rockefeller, at 11 West 53rd Street, in 1932. That site was...projects by Philip Johnson, including Johnsons seminal Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden of 1953, before Cesar Pelli erected...
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Artistic Pursuit: A Display Manufacturer Creatively Blends Business and Design

Magazine article by Sonia Alleyne; Black Enterprise, Vol. 41, June 2011

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...com), located inside the Museum of Modern Art. "Plus the main dining room offers an inspiring view of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden." For entertaining, I like Morandi (www.morandiny.com). Inspiration Architectural...
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A Few Good Buildings: Reading the Obituaries of Philip Johnson

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...Preservation, which will open the complex to the public. Other works universally well received were his 1953 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden for the Museum of Modern Art, demolished but faithfully reconstructed in MoMAs recent rebuilding...

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Rockefeller's Life of Philanthropy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 23, 1996

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Rockefeller, David

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...development," Mr. Rockefeller says. "I said that...countries." Mr. Rockefeller was brought up to believe...rich in general - and Rockefellers in particular - have...foundations -the independent Rockefeller Foundation (current...He and his wife, Abby, the daughter of Sen. Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, raised...
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Honoring a Lifetime Champion for Art

Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee; The Washington Times, November 8, 2000

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Rockefeller, John D., IV

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...Varnedoe said. Mr. Rockefeller made a characteristically...loving mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the "wherewithal...that though Nelson Rockefellers taste for more contemporary...it was David Rockefeller, the youngest brother...
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From Shopping to National Patrimony

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), January 14, 2011

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Loebl, Suzanne

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...case of the Rockefellers, the love...marriage. Abby Greene Aldrich, the daughter...Abby Aldrich Rockefeller also loved...influence of the Rockefellers. And of all the Rockefellers, none was...Nelson A. Rockefeller. MEMOIRS...modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller...
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Revolution Is in Air at Colonial Museum

Newspaper article by Kathy M. Newbern, J.S. Fletcher; The Washington Times, September 6, 2001

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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...vision and John D. Rockefeller Jr.s $68 million...7, 1926, when Mr. Rockefeller sent a coded telegram...match the rectors, Mr. Rockefeller and his wife spent part...Decorative Arts Museum, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art...
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Colonial Americana on 173 Acres

Newspaper article by Marian Kester Coombs; The Washington Times, August 11, 1998

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...No expense has been spared over the years since Rockefeller wealth initiated the resurrection in 1926 - and...but not all sites are also open daily, from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center to the Wythe House. Nearby Carters...

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Williamsburg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...In 1926, with the financial support of John D. Rockefeller , Jr., a large-scale restoration of the city...reconstructed); the public gaol; and the magazine. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller museum houses a noted folk art collection. The...

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