The marble court between the towers: two long pools, the birches and the weeping beech, the bronze figures on their plinths, the glass galleries looking in, the works on the garden walls.
MoMA's first sculpture garden opened in 1939. Philip Johnson redesigned it in 1953 and named it for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the museum's three founders. Its marble court, pools and trees hold works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse and Maillol.
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The sunken marble court with two rectangular pools crossed by narrow bridges, groves of birches and a weeping beech, bronzes on low plinths, the grey granite wall to the street, the glass curtain walls of the galleries above. Mood: first warm friday. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.