Peggy Guggenheim
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Peggy Guggenheim
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12/231
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Peggy Guggenheim(Sender); Norman Reid(Sender)
Creator(s): Guggenheim, Peggy (1898-1979); Reid, Norman
Site Location(s): Created in - Venice, Italy( 45.4371, 12.3326 )
Date(s): 1959 - 1967
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/705023
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains 7 letters to Herbert Read from Peggy Guggenheim.
The letters are brief but some refer to Guggenheim's alternating wishes for her collection after her death: one option being the creation of a foundation, for which Read agreed to be a director, along with Alfred Barr, Bernard Reis, James Sweeney and Guggenheim herself. Another option was for the collection to go to the Tate. Included in the file is a letter from Norman Reid, Director of the Tate, which refers to this possibility.
Other letters refer to Pegeen Guggenheim's death in 1967, and an exhibition by Tancredi. Read provided a short evaluation of the artist, a carbon copy of which is included in the file.
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