Hilla Rebay
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Hilla Rebay is one of the original art lovers responsible for not only bringing modern art to America in the first half of the last century, but for also being the inspiration and the driving force behind the founding of the Guggenheim Museum. In a letter from the museum’s architect Frank Lloyd Wright, he tells her, “This whole building has been built for you and around you whether you know it or not.”
(Frank Lloyd Wright to Hilla Rebay, August 9, 1945)