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Henri Matisse, MoMA, America, and the Rockefellers

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Suzanne Loebl

In 1930, when the Museum of Modern Art was not even a year old, Henri Matisse came to America. The main purpose of his voyage was to visit Albert Barnes and to view the future site of the Dance Mural … Continue reading →

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Busman’s Holiday: Revisiting MoMA

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Suzanne Loebl

“Look,” I told my friend Rochelle, with whom I was spending the afternoon at MoMA, “this was Nelson Rockefeller’s gift to the museum on its twenty-fifth birthday.” We were looking at Henri Rousseau’s The Dream, a surrealistic painting in which a … Continue reading →

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