Guggenheim, Peggy (1896-1979)

US art patron. Born into a family of wealthy industrialists, she was educated in Paris, where during the 1920s and 1930s she collected works by avant-garde artists such as Pablo Picasso, Vasily Kandinsky, and Alexander Calder. In 1942 she moved to New York and opened her Art of This Century gallery. There she played an important role in bringing European art to the USA and in supporting many young US artists, notably abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. She moved to Italy 1947, and opened a gallery in Venice.