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Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge (née Taylor; April 20, 1824 – July 25, 1909), was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith. In 1848, after her father was elected president, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss , an army officer who had served with her ...
Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Bliss Dandridge. BORN: Mary Elizabeth Taylor April 20, 1824 Louisville, Kentucky. DIED: July 25, 1909 (age 85) PARENTS: Zachary Taylor Margaret Taylor . HIGHLIGHTS: 1849-1850: Acting First Lady of the United States. RESOURCES: National Portrait Gallery Wikipedia
31 de mai. de 2023 · Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Bliss Dandridge, the only surviving daughter of Zachary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (1788–1852), was raised in frontier forts while her army general father conducted the Black Hawk War (1832) and the Second Seminole War (1835–42).
Bliss, Mary Elizabeth (1824–1909) American first daughter and White House hostess. Name variations: Betty Taylor; Betty Bliss. Born Mary Elizabeth Taylor in 1824; died 1909; dau. of Margaret Smith Taylor (1788–1852) and Zachary Taylor (1784–1850, president of the US); sister of Knox Taylor
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Lizzie Plummer Bliss was born in 1864 in Boston as a daughter of textile merchant Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833–1911) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Bliss, born Plummer (1836–1923). Since childhood, her family and friends called her Lillie P. Bliss. Of her three siblings, only her brother, Cornelius Newton Bliss, Jr., born in 1874, reached adulthood. ...
One of her earliest purchases of art works was a painting by American painter Arthur B. Davies. She met the artist in his studio and visited art exhibitions with him and the art teacher Mary Quinn Sullivan. In subsequent years, Bliss built the largest private collection of works by Davies in the United States. Her friend, physician Christian Archib...
After the death of Arthur B. Davies in October 1928, several exhibitions were held to preserve his memory; Bliss borrowed many works of art for them. In the auction of his art collection, Bliss and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were among the buyers and both developed a plan to form an institution devoted to organize exhibitions of modern art in New Yor...
Although Bliss was weakened by cancer the last months of her life, she participated actively in the formation of the Museum of Modern Art until shortly before her death. For example, March 2, 1931, she visited the exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec/Redon to which she had contributed three works by Odilon Redon and her paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. On Mar...
The vaguely defined "secure financial basis" in Bliss's will, a sort of endowment to maintain and expand the collection, led to protracted negotiations between Bliss's brother Cornelius Newton Bliss, the executor of her will, and the board of the Museum of Modern Art. The basis for the endowment sum would be the value of the collection donated to t...
Barr, Jr., Alfred. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: Plantin Press, 1934.Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988, ISBN 0-89659-795-4:James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James and Paul Boyer (ed.): Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-674-62734-2.Kantor, Sybil Gordon. Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.Museum of Modern Art: Documentation of the collectionMuseum of Modern Art: Biography of Lillie P. BlissMary Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Bliss Dandridge, the only surviving daughter of Zachary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor (1788–1852), was raised in frontier forts while her army general father conducted the Black Hawk War (1832) and the Second Seminole War (1835–42).
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge, nacida Mary Elizabeth Taylor (20 de abril de 1824-25 de julio de 1909), fue la más joven de las hijas del presidente Zachary Taylor (1849–1850) y Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.
