Venue:
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.

Curator:
Thomas M. Messer.

Artists:
William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition presented a selection of works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection for display at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The show focused on the “New York School,” developed in the 1940s and 1950s under the patronage of Peggy Guggenheim, and featured artists who valued individual expression, spontaneity and improvisation.

Catalogue/Brochure:
Nove artisti della Scuola di New York alle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia . Vicenza: Stocchiero Grafica, 1985.

Brochure in English and Italian with an introduction by Francesco Valcanover (Soprintendente dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Venezia), preface by Philip Rylands (Administrator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection), and biographical text adapted from Lucy Flint, Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Handbook, edited by Thomas M. Messer, New York, 1983.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1985 .06