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New Director Appointed by Guggenheim Museum

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Peter A. Juley

James Johnson Sweeney

The appointment of James Johnson Sweeney as director of the Solomon R.  Guggenheim Museum, to take effect immediately, was announced yesterday by Harry F. Guggenheim, chairman of the board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
This institution, which was formerly known as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, has been without a director since the resignation of Miss Hilla Rebay in March.  Organized in 1939 by the late Solomon R. Guggenheim "for the promotion and encouragement of art and education in art and the enlightenment of the public, especially in the field of art," the foundation operates the museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Sweeney, author and lecturer, was director of the department of painting and sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art in 1945-46 and has been vice president of the International Art Critics Association since 1948.  He has arranged such diverse exhibitions for various institutions as "Americans 1950" for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., and a Picasso exhibition for the Art Gallery of Toronto.  He also installed the American Pavilion in this year's Biennale Exposition in Venice, Italy.