Winthrop Rockefeller played a pivotal role in shaping the state’s arts scene, most notably through the creation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, originally known as the Arkansas Arts Center.
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Dos Mujeres was on loan from Abby Rockefeller for the exhibition and remained in her personal collection until she gave it to her eldest child and only daughter, Abigail “Babs” Rockefeller Mauzé, who subsequently donated it to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in 1955.
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