SECOND ENLARGED CATALOGUE
OF THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
OF NON-OBJECTIVE PAINTINGS
Hilla Rebay [essay], Guggenheim Foundation
Hilla Rebay [essay], Guggenheim Foundation: SECOND ENLARGED CATALOGUE OF THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION OF NON-OBJECTIVE PAINTINGS. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1937. First edition. Quarto. Thick perfect bound printed wrappers. 87 pp. 116 text illustrations. 11 color plates. 13 black and white plates. Wrappers worn and spotted. Spine heel and crown chipped. Textblock lightly thumbed. Cover painting by Rudolf Bauer. Uncommon. A nearly very good copy.
8.5 x 11 catalog with 87 pages with 11 color and 13 black and white plates and 116 black and white catalog text illustrations. The second, enlarged edition of this catalog, published for the Exhibition held at the Philadelphia Art Alliance from February 8 to February 28, 1937. Ten page illustrated essay The Beauty of Non-Objectivity by Hilla Rebay discussing non-objective art, followed by catalog listing of 138 non-objective works by 21 artists (all illustrated), lists an additional 60 works by these same artists that are object-oriented, and short biographies of the artists. Exceptional overview of modern art in America, circa 1937.
Includes work by Rudolf Bauer, Heinrich Campendonik, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Albert Gleizes, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Leger, Franz Marc, Amedeo Modigliani, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, Otto Nebel, Ben Nicolson [sic], Pablo Picasso, Hilla Rebay, Georges Seurat, Schwab [W. ?], and Edward Wadsworth.
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.