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Re: women in museum history?
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WCG1962 <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:21:11 -0400
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, Nicole Frost
<[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Women played an important role in the development of the Museum of Modern
>Art.  They are Abby Rockefeller Jr., Lilly Bliss, and Mary Sullivan.

Are you sure you don't mean Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III (nee Blanchette
Hooker)?  She was chairwoman of the MOMA board for some years before her
death a couple of years ago.  I think Abby Rockefeller founded the Folk
Art museum at Colonial Williamsburg.  Thus two Rockefeller women leads...
- Will

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