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3 unusual facts about Guggenheim Foundation


Guggenheim Foundation

The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation (1924–June 30, 2011) awarded grants initially in the fields of aviation and rocketry and, after 1972, in criminal justice.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards grants to scientists, scholars and artists.

The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (1926-1930) awarded grants to establish schools and research centers of aeronautics


Ann Lauterbach

Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts.

Arnold Franchetti

During his 45 years in the United States, Franchetti received composition honors and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and many other prestigious organizations.

B'nai Yosef Synagogue

Every inch of wall space, including the prayer hall, is covered with murals painted by Archie Rand, professor of art at Brooklyn College, fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Charles A. Moore

In 1947 he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Watumull Foundation to do a year of postdoctoral work at Banaras Hindu University.

Dan Welcher

Welcher’s numerous accolades include awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the American Music Center, and ASCAP.

David Huerta

He has also been a Fellow of the Mexican Writers' Center (1970-1971), the Guggenheim Foundation (1978-1979), and the Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).

Howard Nemerov

Nemerov received many awards and honors, among them fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and The Guggenheim Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the National Medal of Arts, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the first Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

Irving Kriesberg

Kriesberg has received two Ford Foundation grants, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Award.

Larry Heinemann

Since then Heinemann has received literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholarship to research Vietnamese folklore, legends, and mythology at Huế University.

Mary Frank

She was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1984, the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Awards in 1973 and 1983, the Lee Krasner Award of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1993 and the Joan Mitchell Grant Award in 1995.

Richard E. Spear

He received many research grants, including a post-doctoral Fulbright to Italy (1966–67), and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1971–72), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980–81), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1983–84), the Guggenheim Foundation (1987–88), and the National Humanities Center (1992–93).

Stuart Klipper

The Guggenheim Foundation, The Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board have all awarded Klipper multiple grants.

Ursula Mamlok

The recipient of numerous awards, Mamlok had received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1974 and 1981), a Fromm Foundation Grant (1994), a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1995) and commissions from various organizations, including the Koussevitzky Foundation, Eastman School of Music, Alaria Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.


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Fernando Quevedo

He has been awarded The Wolfson Merit Award, Doctorate Honoris Causa from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the 1998 ICTP Prize in High Energy Physics.