ARTstor Digital Library
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Overview
The ARTstor Digital Library is collaborating with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to share approximately 7,000 images of major art works, exhibition installation views, and architecture. There will be 1,000 images of objects from the Guggenheim Museum’s permanent collection, which is known for its superb holdings in modern and contemporary art by Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent van Gogh among many others. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum holds approximately 600 artworks that were gifted to the museum by Solomon Guggenheim between 1937 (the year of the formation of the foundation) and 1949, or purchased by the foundation during those years. These works form the core of the Guggenheim's holdings, with such masterpieces as Franz Marc's Yellow Cow (1911) and Vasily Kandinsky's Composition 8 (1923), among the first paintings Solomon purchased for his art collection following his visit to Kandinsky's studio in 1929.
In addition, the Foundation will be sharing 5,000 installation views spanning from 1990's to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, including documentation of seminal exhibitions such as: Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective; The Worlds of Nam June Paik; James Rosenquist: A Retrospective; Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle; and Kandinsky. Finally, there will be a unique collection of more than 1,000 installations views from the museums in Bilbao and Venice, and 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of these three museum buildings.
Since its inception in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been a preeminent institution for the collection, preservation, and research of modern and contemporary art. The global network that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has expanded since 1997 to include several other museums, prominently the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Each constituent museum unites distinguished architecture with great artworks, a tradition that has become a Guggenheim hallmark. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art while the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice houses one of the most important collections of early 20th century European and American art in Italy. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry features a permanent collection that spans from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, concentrating on post-war painting and sculpture in America and Europe.
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 7,000 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 11% |
| Collection URL | http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/guggenheim |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: May 17, 2012
