Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It host
View from Fifth Avenue
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition for "Jazz", oil on cardboard, 73 × 73 cm
Staircase at the Vatican Museums designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932
Photo of the construction, November 12, 1957
Solomon R. Guggenheim
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Solomon Robert Guggenheim was an American businessman in needlework, gold, silver, copper, and lead and an art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
…under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim. It continues to be operated and owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum's building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture…
S. R. Guggenheim portrait by Pirie Mac Donald