Word: guggenheims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five members of the Faculty in addition to one new appointee are recipients of John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, it was announced yesterday. The awards are granted to enable them to carry out specific research projects...
When tense, ink-haired Heiress Peggy Guggenheim opened a modern art gallery in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 2, 1942), few realized how well qualified she was. In an all-too-frank autobiography published this week (Out of This Century; Dial Press; $3.75), Peggy makes her qualifications clear...
...instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place...
There was also some confusion about the gallery: some mistook it for Manhattan's "Museum of Non-Objective Painting," which Peggy's uncle, Solomon Guggenheim, supported. Peggy and Ernst were both unfaithful and both jealous, she says. The end came when Peggy saw Max's mistress "with her hair dyed turquoise. Inserted in her blouse, which was specially cut for this purpose, were little photographs of Max. This really was too much...
...most boring group in all communities were the university professors-and their wives." American mural paintings were "even below the esthetic level of the Arrow collar artist." The work of 1941's successful applicants for Guggenheim Fellowships included: "The recording, translating and annotating of the Hudhud, a series of epics chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants...