Printed material relating to Guggenheim Jeune and Art of this Century galleries
name: label: Creator
content: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
topic: label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
label: Topic
content: Women art collectors
label: Topic
content: Women art patrons
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1965 by Peggy Guggenheim.
creator: label: Creator
content: Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979
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content: Printed material relating to Guggenheim Jeune and Art of this Century galleries
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Printed material relating to Guggenheim Jeune and Art of this Century galleries date from 1938-1956 on 2 microfilm reels. The collection documents exhibitions and other events related to these two galleries operated by Peggy Guggenheim through exhibition catalogs, clippings, and other published material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Galleries Guggenheim Jeune and Art Of This Century were owned by collector, dealer, and art patron Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). A member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, Peggy Guggenheim was born and raised in New York City. She moved to Paris in 1920, where she befriended many avant-garde writers and artists. 

In 1938, Guggenheim opened her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune Gallery, in London. Wassily Kandinsky, Wolfgaang Paalen, Henry Moore, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Constantin Brâncuși were among the artists featured in individual and group exhibitions at the gallery. Inspired by her uncle Solomon R. Guggenheim, who had founded the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) in New York, Peggy Guggenheim hoped to open her own museum of  contemporary art in Europe. She purchased many works by artists who had exhibited at the Guggenheim Jeune before closing the gallery in 1939. Guggenheim returned to Paris that same year, but was swiftly forced to move home to the United States due to the German occupation of France. Between 1939 and 1941, Guggenheim purchased works of art that would become the bulk of her European collection. She opened Art of This Century on West 57th Street upon her return to New York. The gallery closed in 1946, but was an important venue for emerging American artists and provided patronage to many of the Abstract Expresssionists who frequented her gallery, including Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and many others.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)
label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- England
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-1956
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.guggpegg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection is available on 35mm microfilm reels ITVE 1-ITVE 2 at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender, Peggy Guggenheim, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Printed material relating to Guggenheim Jeune and Art of this Century galleries dates from 1938-1956 on 2 microfilm reels. The collection documents exhibitions and other events related to these two galleries operated by Peggy Guggenheim through exhibition catalogs, clippings, and other published material.

The collection documents exhibitions held at Guggenheim Jeune from 1938-1939, and Art Of This Century from 1941-1947. Also documented are exhibitions of Guggenheim's collection in various European cities from 1948-1951 and 1955-1956, and the Second International Exhibition of American Art held in Italy in 1953 in which artwork from Guggenheim's collection was included.