Billy Rose reviews swimmers for 1939 Aquacade. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Aquacade’s Aquabelle Number One, Eleanor Holm. New York World’s Fair 1939–1940 records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Photo by Murray Korman.
Rose, forty, marries the Aquacade swimming star Eleanor Holm, twenty-six. Courtesy of United Press International.
Dramatic staircase with skylight at Rose’s five-story townhouse on Beekman Place. Samuel H. (Samuel Herman) Gottscho (1875–1971) / Museum of the City of New York. 88.1.1.373.
Rose at his Roseholm estate in Mount Kisco, New York. Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985) for Look magazine / Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.10548.47.
Kurt Weill, Rose, and Ben Hecht address the cast of We Will Never Die. Courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York.
Rose, Hecht standing, and Peter Bergson at November 29, 1948, dinner marking the dissolution of the Bergson Group and Irgun. Photo by Larry Gordon. Courtesy of the Jabotinsky Institute in Israel.
Rose and Bernard Baruch at 1949 dinner for Baruch. With permission of the Princeton University Library.
“Look at that beautiful building. Think of all the great stars who performed there. And I own it.” Wurts Bros. (New York, NY) / Museum of the City of New York. X2010.7.2.84.
Abe Burrows with Rose and Eleanor at 1949 New Year’s Eve party. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Rose and Joyce Mathews during their first marriage, in Harry’s Bar in Venice in 1958. © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org.
Rose with Joyce Mathews and her daughter Vicki after the couple married for the second time on December 29, 1961.
Rose’s mansion on East Ninety-Third Street. Edmund Vincent Gillon / Museum of the City of New York. 2013.3.2.595.
In the living room of his mansion in 1964. AP Images/John Lindsay.
Rose and Isamu Noguchi fly to Israel to design the Billy Rose Art Garden. © 2017 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Billy Rose shows David Ben-Gurion the sculptures for the art garden. Ben-Gurion Archives and Photography Department, Government Press Office, Israel.
Teddy Kollek promised Rose “the nicest Museum Hill in the world.” Photo courtesy of the Eliot Elisofon Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Billy Rose Art Garden shows sign in Hebrew reading “art garden.” © 2017 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Photo courtesy of the Eliot Elisofon Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Billy Rose Art Garden at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. © 2017 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
