Peggy guggenheim

In celebration Peggy Guggenheim's birthday, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art

During the Interwar years South Devon enjoyed the patronage of two American heiresses: Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney) and Peggy Guggenheim. The historic estates they inhabited became sites of experimentation, creativity and subversion. The larger and famous project was Dartington Hall. Less well-known is activity that took place over two consecutive summers at Hayford Hall on Dartmoor. Dorothy Whitney Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight Elmhirst (1887–1968) was born in Washington DC and at 17…

Rogi André, Peggy Guggenheim in Kay Sage's house, Paris, 1940. Courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France, Department of Prints and Photography, Paris

A woman wearing extravagant sunglasses. She sits on a gondola in a Venetian canal. She’s surrounded by dogs. She looks straight at the camer...

Peggy Guggenheim at her home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, 1960s

In "Peggy Guggenheim Goes Off-Beat" I bring her years in Venice, Italy, to light, her refusal to admit The Beat Poets to her salon a grief for several of them.

Opening on February 10, 2017, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim features more than 170 modern objects from the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Assembling many of the foundation’s most iconic works […]

A celebration of the inimitable art collector's life and style

Farah Rahim Ismail on Instagram: ““I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone

In celebration of the birth of the legendary patroness, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art