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Preliminary Annotated Bibliography

 * American Folk Art: the Exhibition of 1932. Williamsburg, VA, 1968.
 * This catalogue sheds light on the first ever exhibition of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s folk art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which preceded the creation of the eventual dedicated folk art museum. The list of exhibited items is important in that it illuminates what the beginnings of Rockefeller’s folk art collection looked like.
 * Chase, Mary Ellen. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. New York: Avon Books, 1966.
 * A biography dedicated specifically to the life and cultural contributions of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. This biography is of particular importance because it is solely dedicated to Abby Rockefeller, and the facts of her life and philanthropy are separated from those of her family members. The book is an overall personal portrait of Rockefeller, and sheds some light on her personal practices and beliefs that guided her art collecting.
 * Kert, Bernice. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: the Woman in the Family. New York: Random House Trade Paperback, 2003.
 * Offers an extensive and well cited account of the life of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, though the biography concludes at the construction of her folk art museum. Notably, the biography consists of many quotations of conversations shared between the Rockefeller family and their friends, cited with extensive records of the memos that the quotations originated from.
 * Loebl, Suzanne. Americas Medicis: the Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. New York, NY: Harper, 2010.
 * This biography covers the philanthropic lives of the Rockefeller family told via chapters dedicated to the artistic institutions that were benefited by the Rockefeller family. There is a specific section dedicated to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of Folk Art, though philosophies of art collecting practiced by Abby Rockefeller are sprinkled throughout the book.
 * Rockefeller, Abbey Greene (Aldrich), and Nina Fletcher Little. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection: a Descriptive Catalogue by Nina Fletcher Little. Williamsburg, VA: Published by Colonial Williamsburg, 1957.
 * A collection of color photographs of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s folk art collection. There is a forward to the book celebrating the 50th year of the museum that discusses the history of the collection, even before the foundation of the museum.
 * Rumford, Beatrix T., and Carolyn J. Weekley. Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center. Boston u.a.: Little, Brown, 1989.
 * A collection of color photographs of objects within the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center. There is a brief introduction written by Winthrop Rockefeller that specifically sheds light on the origin of his mother’s collection. This is mostly an interesting resource to shed light on what the main collection looks like upon publication in the later 1980’s.
 * Stasz, Clarice. The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service. New York: St. Martins Press, 1995.
 * Discusses the lives and contributions of all the women of the Rockefeller family, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller included. Discusses the growth of Rockefeller’s folk art collection, though somewhat briefly.