Roland L. Redmond

Redmond was born on September 13, 1892, at his parents stately two-story 18th-century mansion, known as Callendar House, Tivoli, New York, which was inherited by his mother and redesigned by McKim, Mead & White in 1910.

[2][b] His parents, who were prominent in Catholic circles, donated the funds to the Fathers of Mercy, a French community of priests, to build Church of Notre-Dame on 114th Street in Manhattan.

[8][c] In 1902, his mother and aunt, Countess Carola de Laugier-Villars,[12] built St. Sylvia Church in Tivoli, in memory of Redmond's maternal grandmother.

While president, two directors worked underneath him, Francis Henry Taylor and James Rorimer, and a massive expansion program that took place between 1951 and 1954, and involved nearly the entire reconstruction of the existing building and modernization of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

"[1] In 1950, in response to a juried exhibition, entitled American Painting Today - 1950, eighteen well-known American painters later, including Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, collectively known as The Irascibles, sent an open letter to Redmond stating they would not participate because the juries were "notoriously hostile to advanced art.

[27] Before their divorce in 1953, they were the parents of four daughters: In 1916, upon the death of his mother, he inherited $75,000 (equivalent to $2,100,000 today) outright and an interest in the trust set up for the remainder of her estate, valued between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000.

[12] After he left his wife in the fall of 1952, he took up with Lydia (née Bodrero), Princess di San Faustino,[35] and they married in Palm Beach on December 2, 1957.

1927) (the wife of Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim), from her first marriage to Valentine E. Macy Jr.,[37] and Montino Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino (b.