Venue:
Arca, ex Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli.

Curator:
Luca Massimo Barbero.

Artists:
William Baziotes, James Brooks, William Congdon, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Morris Louis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Roberto Sebastian Matta, Robert Motherwell, Charles Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Richard Poussette-Dart, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Clifford Still, Jack Tworkov.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition was the second chapter in a single major exhibition project, of which Peggy Guggenheim e l'immaginario surreale marked the first. It focused on Peggy Guggenheim’s American years, when her stay in New York stimulated a new and vivacious debate about identity of American art. Central figures of the exhibition were Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, along with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Hans Hofmann—key figures of Abstract Expressionism—featuring over 50 works. The leitmotif of the exhibit was Jackson Pollock whose career owed much to Peggy Guggenheim; fourteen of his works were included in the exhibition.

Partnerships:
Exhibition organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in partnership with the Regione Piemonte and the Citta di Vercelli.

Catalogue:
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura americana, Milano: Giunti Arte Mostre Musei s. r. l., 2008.

Catalogue in Italian, with prefaces by Philip Rylands (Direttore, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim), Mercedes Presso (Presidente della Regione Piemonte), Gianni Oliva (Assessore Regionale alla Cultura), Andrea Corsaro (Sindaco di Vercelli), Pier Giorgio Fossale (Accesore alla Cultura), Dario Canalini (Presidente della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli) and Renzo Masoero (Presidente della Provincia di Vercelli), and essays by Luca Massimo Barbero, Philip Rylands, Francesca Pola and Valentina Sonzogni. Catalogue also contains artists’ biographies.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2008 .06, UFFICIO 26 0008.