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...69th Regiment Armory, which introduced modern French painting to the U. S. President and guiding spirit of the Armory Show was the gentle and reserved Arthur B. Davies, painter of ethereal nudes, wearer of excruciatingly stiff collars. Artist Davies was a great & good friend of Miss Lizzie Bliss. Before the exhibition closed he had persuaded Miss Bliss to buy a Renoir, two Degas and two Redons. Through her friend Mrs. Rockefeller also became interested in modern art, finally began to buy canvases and drawings pointed out to her by the long pale fingers of Arthur B. Davies...
Abby Rockefeller has never successfully downed the idea that to pay as much as Lizzie Bliss used to pay for single pictures is slightly sinful. As far as is known, the highest price Mrs. Rockefeller ever paid for a work of art was $20,000 which she gave Marguerite Zorach for a tapestry portrait of the Rockefeller family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor (TIME, Nov. 4). In general, $1,000 is her top price. This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations...
...that the public could see what living artists were producing. As with the Luxembourg, masterpieces, bought cheap, might later be passed on to the historic museums, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan, when time had verified them. Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, founders of the Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard's Fogg Museum. Gallery space was rented in the Heckscher Building, and on the advice of Professor Sachs, lean, 27-year-old Alfred H. Barr Jr. was hired as Director...
...succeeded by the more liberal Herbert E. Winlock. Still the Museum of Modern Art grew and prospered, gained much prestige and more publicity with its loan exhibitions of almost everything from Henri Matisse to modern kitchen utensils. But it still owned no important pictures. In 1931 Miss Bliss died, leaving the bulk of the pictures she had been buying since the Armory Show to the Museum on condition other members raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (later reduced to $750,000) to care for them. With Mrs. Rockefeller leading, 160 members produced $630,000, including $100,000 from...
...established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence of Memory (TIME...