THE SWEENEY DECADE
ACQUISITIONS AT THE 1959 INAUGURAL
The Guggenheim's 1959 inaugural exhibition featured highlights from the museum's classical collection as well a significant group of works from the 1950s, then newly collected by Director James Johnson Sweeney.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
in
New York,
United States.
From
Friday 05 June 2009 to Wednesday 02 September 2009
Published by Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, NY on Monday 27 April 2009.
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Drawn from the contemporary works acquired during Sweeney’s tenure from 1952-60, this presentation includes examples of international post-WWII trends in abstraction including Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Taschisme, and L’Art Informel, by artists Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, and others. The exhibition is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
