European artists escaping the turmoil of World War II came to New York during the ‘40s to work and exhibit. A lot of their paintings were collected by the Guggenheim Museum in NYC:
“Kandinsky: 1911-1913” until April 2013
The acquisition of Kandinsky’s paintings and water colors started in 1929. “This intimate collection exhibition highlights paintings completed at the moment the artist transitioned toward complete abstraction and published his aesthetic treatise, On the Spiritual in Art (1911).
“Thannhauser Collection” ongoing
The vast art collection of Justin Thannhauser, son of an art dealer, includes works by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh.
89th Street and 5th Avenue, NYC
(Image: Vasily Kandinsky, “Composition VII”, 1913)