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From 28 June to 12 October 2008 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents an exhibition dedicated to the process of maturation of American art from the 1850s to the 1950s.

The exhbition takes place during the celebrations of 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and, throughout a selection of over 70 works taken from the Addison Gallery’s renowned collection, it offers a comprehensive look at the major developments in a period of one hundred years marked by the rise of modernity and by a dramatic change in the physical and social landscape. 

Over this formative century, from the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture came of age, evolving from the provincial to the international and moving from literal depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals.

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