The opening dinner for the Museum’s trustees was a festive affair, featuring candelabra specially made for the occasion by artist Alexander Calder, as well as first courses of stuffed alligator pear (aka avocado) and green turtle soup.
Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art, 3-4. Volume 6, May 1939–June 1939. Trustees’ Dinner Menu on the occasion of the opening of the new Museum building, May 8, 1939. A. Conger Goodyear Scrapbooks, 52
