PEGGY GUGGENHEIM / THE SHOCK OF THE MODERN

One of twentieth-century Americas most influential patrons of the arts, P. Guggenheim brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as J. Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-gard e. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice re mains one of the worlds great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly champ ioned, Gugg...[Read more]