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Museum of Modern Art, comprehensive collection of primarily American and European art ranging from the late 19th century to the present that was established in New York City in 1929, with Alfred H. Barr as the founding director. According to the museum’s founding trustees especially Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller the museum would be dedicated exclusively to the most progressive tendencies in modern art. The museum’s holdings of Cubist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist paintings are especially extensive: it is home to Pablo Picasso’s pivotal Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). Besides paintings, sculpture, and graphic art, the museum was
Jun. 11—The artistic gene is quite prevalent in Cullen Peck's DNA. She has artists on both sides of her family tree, making it almost a given that Peck herself would follow those footsteps. "Mary Quinn Sullivan, one of the three founders of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), was my grandmother's aunt. My grandmother studied with her in New York and breathed the amazing atmosphere of that rich .