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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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    1961: The spiral structure of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Ernst Haas/Getty Images)

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    1965: An elderly man looking at “White Seal”, a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Photo by Sherman/Three Lions/Getty Images

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    c. 1967: American art collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979). Her home later became the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. (Photo by Tony Vaccaro/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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    Portrait of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) pose with a large-scale model of his design for the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in 1945. (Photo by Ben Schnall/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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    United States - December 12: Bands of light wrap the Guggenheim Museum at night. (Photo by Bates Littlehales/National Geographic/Getty Images)

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Spiral Inspiration
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The Guggenheim's 50th Anniversary
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Spiral Inspiration

The Guggenheim's 50th Anniversary

Envisioned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright as a “curving wave that never breaks,” New York’s Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue celebrates its golden anniversary today. Lloyd Wright was commissioned by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim to design a building that would foster Manhattan’s appreciation of modern art. He never got to see his iconic monument to modernism—he died six months before it opened in 1959—but his design went on to become of one of the world's most recognizable buildings. Later, following in the footsteps of her uncle, Guggenheim’s niece Peggy in turn donated her infamous art collection and palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal to the foundation, ensuring the museum's status as a veritable temple for lovers of art and architecture alike.

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