Sentences with phrase «non-objective painting collection»

This concept is still very common today and was ubiquitous in 1943, when Hilla von Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, sent a letter to Frank Lloyd Wright asking him to design a new building for Guggenheim's Non-Objective Painting collection.

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A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York which had 66 of his works in its original collection.

Guggenheim Museum New York Set up in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, «The Guggenheim» now houses a world - renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art, in its world famous New York building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, housing the Guggenheim collection and curated by Hilla Rebay, opens on June 1 at 24 East 54th Street in Manhattan, one block away from the Museum of Modern Art.

The collections The Guggenheim NY collections, originally based on the «non-objective» painting collection created by Solomon Guggenheim in the fist half of the 20th century, are primarily composed by modern and contemporary artworks, usually displayed through semi-permanent thematic exhibitions.

During her long career as an artist and administrator, Hilla Rebay, the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting — later renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952 — built a significant fine art collection of her own.

Another venue was the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (founded 1939), the forerunner of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which was noted for its collection of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944).