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While open-mouthed crowds still jammed the corridors of the surrealist exhibition at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art last week (TIME, Feb. 8), another imposing exhibition of paintings that seemed equally cockeyed to the vulgar mind opened several blocks away at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, described by the Alliance's President Yarnall Abbott as "the most complete collection of nonobjective painting in the world," went up on the walls for a three-week showing. What the public had to see were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there...
...objectivity will be the religion of the future. Very soon the nations on earth will turn to it in thought and feeling and develop such intuitive powers which lead them to harmony." Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting...
Nine years ago, when Collector Guggenheim was 67, he had his portrait painted by the ardent Baroness Hilla Rebay. Born in Alsace, the daughter of a German general, the Baroness has studied painting all her life, was won to non-objectivity in 1914, some time after the Battle of the Marne. After working with other abstractionists in Switzerland, the Baroness came to the U. S. in 1926. Here she still paints objective portraits, for money, but scrupulously tells her clients, "I will paint a picture that looks like you, but it will...
Elderly Mr. Guggenheim found the Baroness charming, her collection of non- objective paintings stimulating. Quickly he was brought to see the error of his previous collecting, began to assemble red triangles, green circles, pink and lavender blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs...
Passing through the Guggenheim collection last week, critics noted that even such ardent non-representationalists as Rudolf Bauer occasionally slip. Painting No. 57, Blue Balls, showed obvious and unmistakable balls, in blue...