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 The
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. |
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 Peter
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. |
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 Augustus
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. |
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 John
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. |
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 John
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. |
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 Aloys
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. |
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 Madame
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. |
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