Visionaries
Subtitle: creating a modern Guggenheim
By: Organized by Megan Fontanella
Contributors: Fontanella, Megan M., organizer, curator; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Lavazza (Firm)
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780892075263
Subjects: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Modern Art; Art; Exhibitions; Collectors and collecting
Other titles: Creating a modern Guggenheim
Description: Exhibition catalog featuring late nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century works from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which coincides with the eightieth anniversary of its establishment in 1937. The show traces the activities of six pioneering arts patrons who helped shape the Guggenheim Foundation's holdings when each of their prized personal collections was joined with this public insitution.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 10-September 6, 2017."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Modern in the Best Sense: Six Pioneering Collectors / Megan Fontanella; title: Thannhauser Collection; title: Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection; title: The Hilla Rebay Collection; title: Estate of Katherine S. Dreier; title: Peggy Guggenheim Collection; title: The Collectors.