Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim’s two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North American art with which she is usually associated

In the 1950s and ’60s, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) began to turn her attentions as a collector toward the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Migrating Objects focuses on this lesser-known but crucial episode in her life and activities. In these years, Guggenheim acquired works created by ...