Incollect Magazine - Issue 9

Incollect Magazine 71 “Opening this gallery and its collection to the public during a time when people are fighting for their lives and freedom is a responsibility of which I am fully conscious. This undertaking will serve its purpose only if it succeeds in serving the future instead of recording the past.” – Peggy Guggenheim, in her press release on the opening of Art of This Century, New York, 1942 Bottom: leana Sonnabend at her desk circa 1965 with Roy Lichtenstein, Kitchen Stove, 1962-62. Courtesy of Sonnabend Collection Foundation. Top: Edith Halpert at the Downtown Gallery, in a photograph for Life magazine in 1952, with some of the new American artists she was promoting: Charles Oscar, Robert Knipschild, Jonah Kinigstein, Wallace Reiss, Carroll Cloar and Herbert Katzman. Photograph © Estate of Louis Faurer, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.