Scrapbook about George Grey Barnard, 1930-1945.

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Scrapbook about George Grey Barnard, 1930-1945.

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The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from various newspapers including the Brooklyn Eagle, New York Telegram, and New York Times, 1930-1945, about George Grey Barnard's fight to stay in his studio in Washington Heights after John D. Rockefeller gave the land to become a New York City park. The articles discuss his sculpture, The Rainbow Arch. Articles after his death detail the disposition of his medieval art collection.

56 pages.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7523491

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Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960

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John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city. Towards the end of his life, he was famous for his philanthropy, donating over $500 million to a wide variety of different causes, including educati...

Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938

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American sculptor, 1863-1938, also art collector and dealer. Trained at Chicago Art Institute and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Commissioned to do statues for the Capital in Harrisburg, Pa., a statue of Lincoln for Cincinnati, Ohio. He spent the last years of his life on a monument to peace entitled "Rainbow Arch" which was never realized. Barnard supported himself by selling Medieval art and artifacts. He built the "Cloisters" in New York City to house his personal collection and sold it in 1925 to...