Museum of Modern Art in NewYORK

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. It was very important for the development and collection of modern art, and is often identified as the most influential Museum of Modern Art in the world. [1] The museum's collection offers a unique overview of modern and contemporary art [2], including works of architecture and design, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artists books, film and electronic media.
keep MoMA Library and the Archive over 300,000 books, artist books and magazines, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary sources on the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, from Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther run.

History
The idea for the Museum of Modern Art in 1928 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends,] Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. [4 It has been variously known as developed "The ladies", "the daring ladies" and "the adamantine ladies". It opens up a modest rented quarters for the new museum, and it to the public on 7th November 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. Abby A. Conger Goodyear had, the former President of the Trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, are invited to become President of the new museum. Abby became treasurer. At the time it was to show America's premier museum, which is exclusively devoted to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan on European modernism. [5]
Goodyear enlisted Paul J. Sachs and Frank Crowninshield to join him as a founding member Board of Trustees. Sachs, deputy director and curator of prints and drawings in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was called in those days as a collector of curators. Goodyear asked him to propose a director and Sachs, to recommend to Alfred H. Barr Jr., a promising young protege. Under the guidance of Barr, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing. His first successful exhibition loans in November 1929, with paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat and [6].
First in six rooms of galleries and offices on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building in Manhattan, [7] on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street housed the museum moved into three more temporary locations within the next ten years. Abby Mann was strongly opposed to the museum (as well as modern art to themselves) and refused money for the venture, which had obtained releases from other sources, and led to the frequent shifts of location. However, he did finally land for the current site of the museum, and other gifts over time, becoming in fact one of the biggest benefactors [8].The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art
During this time, she headed for many more exhibitions of renowned artists such as Vincent van Gogh exhibition Lone on 4 November 1935. Containing an unparalleled sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a great popular success and was a forerunner of the hold van Gogh has now stand at the contemporary imagination. " [9]
The museum gained international prominence with the highly successful and now famous Picasso retrospective of 1939-40 resulted in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago. presented in its series of activities, they represent a significant reinterpretation of Picasso for future art scholars and historians. That was all by Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, and the exhibition as Picasso revered masterminded follow the greatest artist of the time, setting the model for all of the museum retrospectives, which should [10].
selected as the Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson by the Board of Trustees, was his flamboyant president in 1939, has become the age of thirty, he was the instigator and prime sponsor of public relations, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street. His brother, David Rockefeller, entered the museum board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency took when Nelson position as governor of New York in 1958.
David later entered the renowned architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. He and the Rockefeller family have maintained a generally close relationship with the museum over its history, since the Rockefeller Brothers Fund financing institution 1947th Both David Rockefeller, Jr. and Sharon Percy Rockefeller (wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller) currently sit on the Board of Trustees.
In 1937, MoMA had shifted to offices and basement galleries in the Time & Life Building in Rockefeller Center. Its permanent and current home, now renovated and decorated in the "International Style" of the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on 10 May 1939, accompanied by an illustrious company of 6,000 people, and with an opening address on radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt [11].