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Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1071 Fifth Avenue. It houses a comprehensive collection of European and American conceptual and abstract art from throughout the 20th century.
Peter BehrensPeter Behrens worked as a painter and graphic artist before turning to architecture. As artistic consultant for a major German manufacturing company, he not only designed the company's logo and sales literature, but its factories and workers' apartments as well. He also designed a number of household electrical appliances, china, glass objects, and patterned linoleum flooring.
 
Augustus Saint-GaudensAugustus Saint-Gaudens built his reputation by completing portrait commissions for prominent New Yorkers. He subsequently built a tremendous reputation based on his monumental depictions of several Civil War heroes. He is also responsible for one of the rarest and most valuable of all U.S. coins.
John WhiteJohn White was an artist and illustrator responsible for the earliest visual record by an Englishman of the flora, fauna and people of the New World. He was one of the colonizers of Roanoke Island, and his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was the first English child to be born in the New World.
   
John Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent produced over 900 oils and more than 2,000 watercolors over the course of his career. He two U.S. Presidents, the aristocracy of Europe, and business tycoons from around the world, as well as gypsies, tramps, and street children.
Aloys SenefelderAloys Senefelder was unable get his plays published because he did not have enough money to pay for their engraving. So he decided to do the work himself, and eventually came up with the flat surface method printing we now know as lithography.
   
Madame Marie TussaudMadame Marie Tussaud began her remarkable wax sculpting career at the age of six. Forced to create death masks of persons executed during the Reign of Terror, she turned that collection of horrors into the nucleus of the most famous wax museum in the world.