A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American co
llector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century
America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) br
ought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Polloc
k and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreakin
g and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the po
stwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains on
e of the world's great collections of modern art.
