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Museum Guide VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The Great Rotunda features
special exhibitions. The Small Practical Information
Rotunda shows some of the 1071 5th Ave at 89th St. Map 16 F3.
museum’s Impressionist and Tel (212) 423-3500. Open 10 am –
Post-Impressionist holdings. 5:45pm Fri–Wed (7:45pm Sat).
Closed Thksgv, Dec 25. & 5:45–
The Tower galleries (also 7:45pm Sat by voluntary donation.
known as The Annex) hold 7 8 9 Lectures, concerts. -
exhibi tions of work from the = ∑ guggenheim.org
permanent collection, as well
as contemporary pieces. The Transport
permanent collection q 4, 5, 6 to 86th St. @ M1–4.
is shown on a
rotating basis,
and only parts of
it are on display
at any one time. Before the Mirror (1876)
In trying to capture the flavor of
19th-century society, Edouard
Manet often used the image
of the courtesan.
Woman Holding a Vase
Fernand Léger incorporated
elements of Cubism into this
work from 1927.
Black Lines (1913)
This is one of Vasily Kandinsky’s
earliest examples of his work in
“non-objective” art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
During his lifetime, Wright was
considered the great innovator of
American architecture. Characteristic
of his work are Prairie-style homes and
office buildings of concrete slabs, glass
bricks, and tubing. Wright received the
Guggenheim commission, his only New
York building, in 1942 and it was
Woman with Yellow Hair (1931) completed after his death in 1959.
The gentle, voluptuous figure of
Picasso’s mistress often appears Interior of the Guggenheim’s Great Rotunda
in his work.
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