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...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...
Sidney S. Alexander '36; Paul J. Allen '36; Charles DeL. Ashmore '38; George W. Bergquist '38; Harold van B. Cleveland '38; Everett R. Coburn, Jr. '38; Kenneth E. Colton '36; Louis H. Conger, Jr. '37; Perry J. Culver '37; Robert J. Cumming '38; W. Tucker Dean, Jr. '37; William H. K. Denaldson '37; William F. Eberlein '38; Egbert W. Fischer '36; John J. Frankevicz '36; Verne R. Fulmer...
Among U. S. collectors contributing to the Modern Museum's exhibition are the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Museum, Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. William Averell Harriman, Conductor Josef Stransky, A. Conger Goodyear and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham of Burlington...
Said the Museum's President A. Conger Goodyear: "The art of the motion picture is the only art peculiar to the 20th Century. As an art it is practically unknown and unstudied. Many who are well acquainted with modern painting, literature, drama and architecture are almost wholly ignorant of the work of such great directors as Pabst, Pudovkin, or Seastrom and of the creative stages in the development of men like Griffith and Chaplin. Yet the films which these and other men made have had an immeasurably great influence on the life and thought of the present generation...
...There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important one that the Museum has received...