Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art. Presidents' and Directors' correspondence. Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art. Presidents' and Directors' correspondence. 1893-1966 1900-1948

Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 1874-1948

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Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller (b. Abigail Greene Aldrich) was born on October 26, 1874, in Providence, Rhode Island, the fourth child of Abby Pearce Chapman and Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich. Her father served in the state House of Representatives, was Speaker of the House, and served as a U.S. Senator, including as chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Abby grew up in Providence and Warwick Neck in Rhode Island and in Washington, DC. Abby received her early education from Quaker governesses. At...

Archives of American Art

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From its founding to 1954 the Archives was headquartered at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1960 the Archives moved its headquarters to New York but a branch office remained in Detroit. In 1963 an office was opened in Rome to collect the records of American artists' work in Italy. In 1970 the Archives became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and moved to Washington, D.C. Directors have included Edgar Preston Richardson, 1954-1964; William E. Woolfenden, 1964-1983; Richard N. Murray, 1983...

Rhode Island School of Design. Office of the President.

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Radeke, Eliza G., 1854-1931

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Born on December 11, 1854 in Augusta, GA, Eliza G. Radeke graduated from Vassar College in 1876. That same year, she assisted her mother Helen Metcalf's work for the Rhode Island Women's Centennial Commission organized for the Philadelphia Exposition. Radeke married Dr. Gustav Radeke, an immigrant from Hamburg, Germany, in 1880. She and her husband took an active role in RISD soon after. Until his death in 1892, Gustav Radeke worked to organize an Industrial Museum. Ele...

Rhode Island School of Design. Museum Committee.

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Rowe, L. Earle, 1882-1937

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Dorner, Alexander, 1893-1957

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Art historian. Dorner emigrated from Germany to the U.S. and became director of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. From the description of Alexander Dorner papers, 1938-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355077 Alexander Dorner was born January, 1893, in Königsberg, Germany. After attending Königsberg University, he transferred to the University of Berlin in 1915, where he began his study of art history, archaeology, philosophy, and h...

Birnbaum, Martin, 1878-1970

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Martin Birnbaum was born in Hungary, but brought to America as a child and naturalized. He studied at City College of New York and Columbia, and admitted to the bar, joined the law firm of Scott & Fowles. He became an important art collector and dealer, and was the first to show Paul Klee, Edvard Munch, and other European artists in America. An accomplished and eclectic man of great personal charm, he also translated poetry, played the violin, and wrote numerous brochures and biographies abo...

Capers, Roberta M.

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Fine arts consultant; interviewee married Robert F. Capers. From the description of Reminiscences of Roberta M. Capers : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565292 ...

Rhode Island School of Design., Museum of Art

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Eliza G. Radeke, Museum Committee Chair (1893-1931) and President (1913-1931), led the development of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art assisted by L. Earle Rowe, RISD Director (1912-1929) and Museum Director (1929-1937). Working together and with the generosity and assistance of her family and friends including Edward Perry Warren, they established the foundation of the Museum’s collection of works of art. Her collection strengths were Japanese and Classi...

Sullivan, Max W., 1909-1990.

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Max W. Sullivan served as the first RISD President chosen from outside the Corporation. He came to RISD as the Director of Education, Museum of Art, 1944-1945. Appointed Dean of the School in 1945, he succeeded Helen M. Danforth in May 1947 and served until his resignation on August 17, 1955. He received his B.A. in 1932 from Western State Teacher's College (Kalamazoo, MI) and his M.A.T. from Harvard University in 1939. His teaching duties prior to RISD included the Cranbrook School (Bloomfield ...

Alford, Roberta M.

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Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art. Office of the Director.

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Danforth, Helen M., 1887-1984

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Born on September 3, 1887, the daughter of RISD Treasurer Stephen O. Metcalf, Helen M. Danforth attended St. Timothy's School (Baltimore, MD). She married orthopedic surgeon Murray S. Danforth in 1916. Danforth joined the Museum Committee in 1927, the year after the Museum of Art’s Radeke Building opened. This period marks the beginning of her many gifts and loans to the Museum. In 1931 Danforth succeeded her aunt, Eliza G. Radeke, as President of the RISD Corporation a...

Washburn, Gordon B. (Gordon Bailey), 1904-

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Gordon Bailey Washburn (1904-1983) was an art museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1931-1942. Director of Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1942-1949. Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1950-1962. Director, Asia House Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1961-1974. From the description of Oral history interview with Gordon Bailey Washburn, 1970 Mar. 4-18 [sound recor...

Warren, Edward Perry, 1860-1928

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Epithet: art collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000a7 ...

Aldrich, Lucy T. (Lucy Truman), 1869-1955

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