Finding 8: Arp as I Knew Him (A Love Story)

In 1969 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum paid tribute to Jean Arp (1886–1966) with a retrospective exhibition. His second wife, Marguerite Arp, spoke of her experience with her husband during a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition. The transcription of the talk begins “May I, his friend for many years and finally his second wife, take this opportunity to say that he was as great a man as an artist and that my life with him was wonderful.”  Marguerite concludes by sharing that “essential for us was our love for art, our love of life, our love of all that is beautiful and good and that is what made our life so happy.”

—Martha Horan, archives assistant