FOURTH ENLARGED CATALOGUE
OF THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
OF NON-OBJECTIVE PAINTINGS
Hilla Rebay [essay], Guggenheim Foundation
Hilla Rebay [essay], Guggenheim Foundation: FOURTH CATALOGUE OF THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION OF NON-OBJECTIVE PAINTINGS. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1939. First edition. Quarto. Thick printed wrappers with cloth backstrip. Side saddle-stitched. 36 pp. 2 text illustrations. 18 color plates. Metallic printed wrappers lightly worn and spotted. Light spotting to textblock. Front free endpaper and title page slightly pulled from binding. Cover painting by Rudolf Bauer. Uncommon. A very good copy.
8.25 x 11 catalog with 36 pages with 18 color plates and 2 black and white text illustrations. Color engravings by Beck Engraving. The fourth edition of this catalog, published for the Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art from January 6 - 29, 1939. Six page illustrated essay Non-Objectivity is the Realm of Spirit by Hilla Rebay discussing non-objective art, followed by 18 magnificent full-page, color plates: 6 by Vasily Kandinsky; 12 by Rudolph Bauer. Nice overview of modern art in America, circa 1939.
The exhibition was organized by Hilla Rebay, in her capacity as curator of the collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Rebay was the founder of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the forerunner to today's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This catalogue preceded the historic 1939 Art of Tomorrow exhibition, presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, in its temporary home in New York City at 24 East 54th Street.