Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 |
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role
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Collector Dealer/Gallery Patron |
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dates
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1898-1979 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Paris, France; Venice, Italy; London, United Kingdom; |
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sex
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historical notes
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Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an art collector, patron, dealer, gallery owner and museum founder. An industrialist and banking heiress Guggenheim was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim and Florette Seligman (her father died on the SS Titanic in 1912).
In 1938, Guggenheim opened her London gallery in London Guggenheim Jeune (closed 1937) and in 1942 she opened her New York City Gallery The Art of This Century Gallery (closed in 1947).
Guggenheim both championed and owed work by, among others, Jean Cocteau, Wassily Kandinsky, Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen, Antoine Pevsner, Henry Moore, Henri Laurens, Alexander Calder, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Constantin Brâncu i, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Kurt Schwitters, When finished, she had acquired ten Picassos, Jaun Miró, René Magritte, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, William Congdon, Ada Verdun Howell, Robert Motherwell, and Max Ernst.
Guggenheim donated her home and collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1976.
Guggenheim was married twice; first, to Laurence Vail, in Paris in 1922 (left in 1928 for the English intellectual John Holms) and secondly, to the artist Max Ernst who she divorced in 1943.
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decades
of activity | 1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
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| website | http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/ |
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Archives/Repository |
Collection Title |
Collection Details |
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977 |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
WNYC Views on Art radio program interviews, 1967-1973. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
William and Ethel Baziotes papers, 1916-1992. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Hermine Benhaim papers, 1945-1966. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Virginia Admiral papers, [ca.1947-1980]. |
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The Ryerson & Burnham Archives
Art Institute of Chicago |
Mary Reynolds Collection, 1892-1972 (bulk 1941-1964)
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Bernard J. Reis interviews, 1976 June 3-1976 June 10. |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Bernard J. Reis papers, 1934-1979. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Bernard and Rebecca Reis papers, ca. 1924-1985. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Barbara Rose Papers, 1940-1993 (bulk 1960-1985). |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Edwin David Porter papers, 1929-1969. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Peggy Guggenheim letters to Naum Gabo, 1939-1940. |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Marinetti correspondence and papers, 1886-1974.
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Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Photography Department
Guggenheim Image Archive |
Guggenheim Image Archive |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum |
Collection on Peggy Guggenheim, 1938-1992 (bulk 1981-1988) |
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Library and Archive |
Library and Archive
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum |
Peggy Guggenheim Collection records, 1976-1992 (bulk 1980-1987) |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum |
Peggy Guggenheim Foundation papers, 1936-1979 |
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Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) |
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