MEGAN FONTANELLA: “Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim”
is an exhibition that’s exploring
the Guggenheim’s modern holdings.
Beginning in the late 19th century
through the mid-20th century,
works by Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec.
To Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque,
who were at the forefront of Cubism.
To Robert Delaunay, Marc Chagall, and Franz Marc,
pioneering expressionistic use of color.
To Kandinsky and artists like Mondrian
that are paring things down to their very essence.
It’s also the story of these six really pioneering individuals
whose collections were either given in part, or in whole,
through donation or purchase, to the institution.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Hilla Rebay, the German-born artist
Katherine S. Dreier
Peggy Guggenheim, Solomon’s niece
and German émigré art dealers Justin Thannhauser
and Karl Nierendorf.
The exhibition is organized according to these six collections.
A visitor will encounter on each ramp
of the Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda a different voice,
a different viewpoint.
