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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a preeminent art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City,USA,on 53rd Street,between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art,and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.[1] The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art,[2] including works of architecture and design,drawings,painting,sculpture,photography,prints,illustrated books,film,and electronic media.
MoMA's library and archives hold over 300,000 books,artist books,and periodicals,as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists.The archives contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
MoMA is plementary to and sometimes considered a sister museum to the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art[attribution needed],although the latter is a general art museum,where modern art is only one area of specialization.
The idea for the Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1928 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller[citation needed] (wife of John D.Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends,Lillie P.Bliss and Mrs Cornelius J.Sullivan.They became known variously as the Ladies,the daring ladies and the adamantine ladies.They rented modest quarters for the new museum and it opened to the public on November 7,1929,nine days after the Wall Street Crash.Abby had invited A.Conger Goodyear,the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo,New York,to bee president of the new museum.Abby became treasurer.At the time,it was America's premier American museum devoted exclusively to modern art,and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism.[3]
Goodyear enlisted Paul J.Sachs and Frank Crowninshield to join him as founding trustees.Sachs,the associate director and curator of prints and drawings at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University,was referred to in those days as a collector of curators.Goodyear asked him to remend a director and Sachs suggested Alfred H.Barr Jr.,a promising young protege.Under Barr's guidance,the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing.Its first successful loan exhibition was in November 1929,displaying paintings by Van Gogh,Gauguin,Cezanne,and Seurat.[4]
First housed in six rooms of galleries and offices on the twelfth floor of Manhattan's Heckscher Building,on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street,the museum moved into three more temporary locations within the next ten years.Abby's husband was adama