Colonel Goodyear, executive officer of the Camp Taylor, Kentucky training school for artillery officers during World War I.
President of the Museum of Modern Art
In office 1929–1939
Preceded by
Inaugural holder
Succeeded by
Nelson Rockefeller
Personal details
Born
June 20, 1877 Buffalo, New York
Died
April 24, 1964(1964-04-24) (aged 86) Old Westbury, New York
Spouses
Mary Martha Forman
(m. 1904, divorced)
Zaidee C. Bliss
(m. 1950–1964)
Children
4
Parent(s)
Charles W. Goodyear Ella Portia Conger
Relatives
Frank H. Goodyear (uncle) George V. Forman (father-in-law)
Residence
A. Conger Goodyear House
Education
Nichols School
Alma mater
Yale University
Anson Conger Goodyear (June 20, 1877 – April 24, 1964) was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear family. He is best known as one of the founding members and first president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[1]
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Anson Conger Goodyear (June 20, 1877 – April 24, 1964) was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear...
after him. The family was also involved in the arts[citation needed] . AnsonGoodyear was an organizer of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; he served...
youngest son of Charles W. Goodyear and Ella Portia (née Conger) Goodyear (1853–1940). His eldest brother AnsonGoodyear was a prominent art collector...
presented in the exhibition. She also received commissions from A. Conger Goodyear, then the president of the MoMA, and Clare Boothe Luce, for whom she painted...
the name Sarah. It means princess in Hebrew. Zaidee C. Bliss, wife of AnsonGoodyear Zaidee Jackson (1897–1970), American singer Zaidee Mary May, mother...
York at Buffalo, A. Conger Goodyear biography Archived 2015-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, Finding Aid for the A. Conger Goodyear Papers, accessed September...
figures including: AnsonGoodyear, Murray Crane, and Paul J. Sachs. The founding board consisted of seven members, with Goodyear as the president. The...
1993 World University Games William A. Gardner ■ Bradley J. Gaylord ■ AnsonGoodyear, founder and first president of the Museum of Modern Art, president...
dollars from private donors. He had numerous efficient aides, such as AnsonGoodyear, who handled coal supplies in Austria, Hungary and Poland. According...
wife Gladys Lloydand Robison (art collector and a painter) and Sir AnsonGoodyear (one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art in New York) were invited...
the latter half of the 19th century, brothers Frank H. and Charles W. Goodyear amassed great wealth by investing in timberlands, lumber mills, coal, and...
Located across the road from Platt's own house in Cornish, New Hampshire, AnsonGoodyear hired Shipman to revitalize the plantings and reconfigure the garden...
company commissioned Green & Wicks to build the Fidelity Trust Building. AnsonGoodyear described George V. Forman in the following way: "every morning left...
built in 1938 by Edward Durell Stone in the International Style for Anson Conger Goodyear, the first president of the Museum of Modern Art. Rosen completed...
president Anson Conger Goodyear, the A. Conger Goodyear House, in Old Westbury, NY (1938). Both the Richard H. Mandel House and A. Conger Goodyear House are...
the industrialist Anson Conger Goodyear. Upon his death in 1964, Goodyear bequeathed the painting jointly to his son, George F. Goodyear, with a life interest...
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