Its first successful loan exhibition was in November 1929, displaying paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Seurat. Under Barr's guidance, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing. Goodyear asked him to recommend a director, and Sachs suggested Alfred H. Sachs, the associate director and curator of prints and drawings at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, was referred to in those days as a "collector of curators". Sachs and Frank Crowninshield to join him as founding trustees. One of Rockefeller's early recruits for the museum staff was the noted Japanese-American photographer Soichi Sunami (at that time best known for his portraits of modern dance pioneer Martha Graham), who served the museum as its official documentary photographer from 1930 until 1968.
At the time, it was America's premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism. Conger Goodyear, the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, to become president of the new museum. They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. They became known variously as "the Ladies" or "the adamantine ladies". Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. The idea for the Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1929 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D.
It ranked 15th on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2021. It attracted 1,160,686 visitors in 2021, an increase of 64% from 2020. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. The MoMA Library includes about 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, and electronic media. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. The Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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