Baroness Hilla Rebay
Baroness Hilla Rebay (1890–1967) was a German-born painter, curator, and art patron who served as the founding director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York, later the Solomon R. GuggenheimMuseum. A close associate of Wassily Kandinsky, she played a central role in promoting non-objective art in the United States and in shaping the Guggenheim’s early collection. Ellsworth Kelly met Rebay in 1951 through his connections with Jürg Spiller and Jean Arp, and she became instrumental in gathering support for Kelly’s application for a Guggenheim Fellowship with the proposal for a book ‘with no written word’ – Line Form Color. Rebay also regularly exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
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