Editing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (section)

=== Personal collections ===
The Guggenheim Museum has acquired private collections throughout its history, including those of Guggenheim, [[Karl Nierendorf]], [[Katherine Sophie Dreier]], Thannhauser, Rebay, [[Giuseppe Panza]], Mapplethorpe and the Bohen Foundation.<ref>{{harvnb|Loebl|2002|pp=283–284|ps=.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Budick |first=Ariella |date=May 10, 2017 |title=Visionaries at the Guggenheim, New York: brimming with masterpieces |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ed291c60-f471-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608 |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=Financial Times}}</ref> Its earliest works include modernists such as [[Rudolf Bauer (artist)|Rudolf Bauer]], Rebay, Kandinsky, [[Piet Mondrian]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Robert Delaunay]], [[Fernand Léger]], [[Amedeo Modigliani]] and [[Pablo Picasso]].<ref name="cork" /> Parts of the original collection have been sold over the years. In 2007, 620 of the original works were designated part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection,<ref name="nyt-2007-05-11" /> with works by over 60 artists,<ref name="nyt-2007-05-11">{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=May 11, 2007 |title=Guggenheim Foundation Takes Steps to Preserve Its Artistic Legacy |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/arts/design/11voge.html |access-date=October 5, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> including more than 150 by Kandinsky.<ref name="Guggenheim Founding Collection">{{cite web |title=Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/special_collection/solomon-r-guggenheim-founding-collection |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}</ref> The founding collection contains several pieces by [[Albert Gleizes]], including ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (Gleizes)|Brooklyn Bridge]]'', ''[[Composition for "Jazz"]]'' and ''[[Portrait of an Army Doctor]]''.<ref name="Guggenheim Founding Collection" /> Pieces such as Chagall's ''[[Green Violinist]]'',<ref name="n162066731">{{Cite news |last=Huntington |first=Richard |date=1992-12-04 |title=The exuberant fiddler returns |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-the-exuberant-fiddler-r/162066731/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=The Buffalo News |pages=B13, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-chagall-murals-shelved/162066607/ B14]}}</ref> [[Franz Marc]]'s ''[[Yellow Cow]]'',<ref name="n162067937">{{Cite news |last=Levin |first=Ann |date=2011-02-09 |title=Guggenheim returns to its roots, traces collection |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle-guggenheim-return/162067937/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |pages=6C |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> [[Jean Metzinger]]'s ''[[Woman with a Fan (Metzinger, 1912)|Woman with a Fan]]'',<ref name="n162068120">{{Cite news |last=Kissel |first=Howard |date=2001-02-09 |title=The Guggenheim Goes Global |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-the-guggenheim-goes-globalho/162068120/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=New York Daily News |pages=68, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-the-guggenheim-goes-global/162068158/ 69]}}</ref> and Picasso's ''[[The Accordionist]]''<ref name="n162068271" /> are also part of the founding collection.<ref name="Guggenheim Founding Collection" /> 

In 1948, the Museum of Non-Objective Art acquired Nierendorf's 730 objects, notably [[German expressionist]] paintings.<ref name=NierendorfEstate/><ref name=Calnek/> The Guggenheim still had 121 works from the Nierendorf collection in the 1990s,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=John |date=June 18, 1993 |title=Review/Art; Paul Klee as a Master Of Line Over Color |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/18/arts/review-art-paul-klee-as-a-master-of-line-over-color.html |access-date=October 5, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> comprising a broad spectrum of [[expressionist]] and [[surrealist]] works, including paintings by [[Paul Klee]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]] and [[Joan Miró]].<ref name=Calnek/><ref name=cork/><ref name=NierendorfEstate>{{cite web |title=Karl Nierendorf Estate |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/special_collection/karl-nierendorf-estate |access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> In 1953, the Guggenheim acquired 28 pieces from Dreier's collection,{{Efn|Dreier was one of Rebay's colleagues and a founder of modern-art organization [[Société Anonyme (art)|Société Anonyme]].<ref name=cork/>}} including works by [[Alexander Archipenko]], [[Constantin Brâncuși]], [[Alexander Calder]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[Juan Gris]], [[El Lissitzky]], Mondrian and [[Kurt Schwitters]].<ref name=cork/>

The Thannhauser Collection, acquired in 1963, initially consisted of 73 works,<ref name="Spiegler 1963"/><ref name="nyt-1963-10-24" /> largely in the [[Impressionist]], [[Post-Impressionist]] and French modern styles,<ref name=Loebl284>{{harvnb|Loebl|2002|p=284|ps=.}}</ref> including pieces by [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Édouard Manet]], [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Vincent van Gogh]] and 32 works by Picasso.<ref name=cork/><ref>[http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7357 "Thannhauser, Justin K.:] The [[Frick Collection]]", ''Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America''. Retrieved March 13, 2012.</ref> Justin Thannhauser's widow Hilde donated additional pieces to the Thannhauser Collection in 1981 and 1991,{{sfn|Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|1993|p=22}} including Manet's ''[[Portrait of Countess Albazzi]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VazpAAAAMAAJ |title=Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum |last2=Drutt |first2=Matthew |publisher=Guggenheim Museum |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8109-6920-9 |page=134}}</ref>

Rebay also bequeathed a portion of her personal collection to the foundation, including works by Kandinsky, Klee, Calder, Gleizes, Mondrian and Schwitters.<ref name="cork" /> The Guggenheim received the pieces in 1971, four years after her death,<ref name="About the Collection" /> because of a prolonged lawsuit.<ref name="nyt-1971-05-15" /> In 1990 the museum acquired the collection of Giovanna and Giuseppe Panza.<ref name="nyt-1990-02-16">{{Cite news |last=Yarrow |first=Andrew L. |date=February 16, 1990 |title=Guggenheim Is Acquiring Over 200 Minimalist Works |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/16/arts/guggenheim-is-acquiring-over-200-minimalist-works.html |access-date=October 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Fleeson 1990">{{Cite news |last=Fleeson |first=Lucinda |date=February 17, 1990 |title=Count's American art going to Guggenheim |pages=49 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110808366/counts-american-art-going-to/ |access-date=October 6, 2022}}</ref> This includes examples of [[Minimalist art|minimalist]] sculptures by [[Carl Andre]], [[Dan Flavin]] and [[Donald Judd]]; minimalist paintings by [[Robert Mangold]], [[Brice Marden]] and [[Robert Ryman]]; and an array of [[Postminimalism|postminimal]], [[Conceptual art|conceptual]] and perceptual art by [[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]], [[Richard Serra]], [[James Turrell]], [[Lawrence Weiner]] and others, notably American examples of the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name="Glueck" /><ref name="Fleeson 1990" /> When the Panza Collection was acquired, some of the pieces had not been sculpted, existing only as sketches.<ref>{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=June 12, 1990 |title=Millions for Art, a Lot of It Unfinished |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/12/arts/millions-for-art-a-lot-of-it-unfinished.html |access-date=January 2, 2025 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 1992, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation gave 200 of Mapplethorpe's best photographs to the foundation,<ref name="nyt-1992-12-04" /><ref name="Wallach 1992"/> marking the museum's first major acquisition of 20th-century photography.{{sfn|Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|1993|p=26}} The works spanned his entire output, from his early collages, [[Polaroid camera|Polaroids]], portraits of celebrities, self-portraits, male and female nudes, flowers and statues; it also featured mixed-media constructions and included his well-known 1998 ''Self-Portrait''. The acquisition initiated the foundation's photography exhibition program.<ref name=cork/> In 2001, the foundation received a gift of the collection of the Bohen Foundation, which, for two decades, commissioned new works of art with an emphasis on film, video, photography and new media. It comprises around 275 works by 45 artists,<ref name="nyt-2001-12-21">{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=December 21, 2001 |title=Inside Art |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/arts/inside-art.html |access-date=October 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> including [[Pierre Huyghe]] and [[Sophie Calle]].<ref name=artdaily/> In 2022, the Guggenheim and the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]], jointly received 100 works from the [[Dimitris Daskalopoulos|D. Daskalopoulos]] Collection.<ref name="Chow 2022">{{cite web |last=Chow |first=Vivienne |title=Mega-Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos Gifts Over 350 Artworks to Four Museums in Three Countries |website=Artnet News |date=April 13, 2022 |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dimitris-daskalopoulos-gifts-over-350-artworks-to-four-museums-2098450 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 13, 2022 |title=Daskalopoulos's great giveaway: Greek collector donates 350 works to Tate, Guggenheim, MCA Chicago and EMST in Athens |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/13/daskalopouloss-great-giveawaygreek-collector-donates-350-works-to-tate-guggenheim-mca-chicago-and-emst-in-athens |access-date=November 9, 2022 |website=The Art Newspaper}}</ref>