--- description: One of the few selfish pleasures of the self-effacing wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. is to shop for bargains among the works of oncoming modern painters. As vice president and trustee of... title: Art: Rockefeller Bargains image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Art: Rockefeller Bargains by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 3, 1935 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 3, 1935 4:00 AM CUT One of the few selfish pleasures of the self-effacing wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. is to shop for bargains among the works of oncoming modern painters. As vice president and trustee of Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, she has put good advice to good purpose by specializing in water colors and drawings by U.S. artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum’s President, A. Conger Goodyear: “Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller’s gift is the most important one that the Museum has received.” Art: Rockefeller Bargains ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820656/art-rockefeller-bargains/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820656/art-rockefeller-bargains/"},"headline":"Art: Rockefeller Bargains","datePublished":"1935-06-03T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T04:06:45.292Z","description":"One of the few selfish pleasures of the self-effacing wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. is to shop for bargains among the works of oncoming modern painters. As vice president and trustee of...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6820656/art-rockefeller-bargains/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820656/art-rockefeller-bargains/","name":"Art: Rockefeller Bargains"}}]}] ```