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...spite of the crowds that wait to get in. Director James Johnson Sweeney of Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has never gotten along with his spiraling new building on upper Fifth Avenue. He took a dislike to the place the moment he first saw Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's plans, and though he seemed for a while to have made a kind of peace with it, he was never really satisfied. Last week the museum announced that Sweeney had quit...
...things pretty much his own way. In 1946 he quit after only one year as head of the Museum of Modern Art's department of painting and sculpture because he felt that he no longer had as much authority as he wanted. In 1952 he took over the Guggenheim, which had been called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and which had a reputation for being not only too narrow but often second-rate. Sweeney seemed in his element in trying to build up the collection-until he collided with the towering figure of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, Sweeney's actions seemed plain disloyalty to what Guggenheim regarded as a great building. But there was another and unexpected problem-the building's extraordinary popularity. In nine months, more than 750,000 people have swarmed through it, and as the queues outside got longer and longer. Guggenheim began to wonder whether the museum should not offer more to the public in the form of more popular lectures, art courses, films and concerts. To such a purist as Sweeney, this was the last straw: Guggenheim's program, he felt...
...eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Henry Ford II. Before the show's sponsors were finished, they had gathered the works of 45 artists, including 17 De Chiricos and no fewer than 18 Modiglianis...
...explaining his difference of opinion with Alicia, Guggenheim was amiable enough. "I don't call it a quarrel," he said. "I'm expressing my own private political view." Then he added: "Of course it can't in any way be separated from my presidency of Newsday." In short, any time Newsday Co-Owner (49%) Alicia Patterson tries to tell Co-Owner (51%) Harry Guggenheim how to vote. Husband Harry can be counted on to put in his extra two per cent's worth...