The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum

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Exhibition: The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum
Dates: November 17, 2009–February 4, 2010
Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Listing type: Exhibition
Description: This exhibition, which includes a selection of more than fifty paintings drawn from the museum’s holdings, simultaneously provides an introduction to the early history of the Guggenheim collection and the history of abstract art in the West from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
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