Wassily Kandinsky Paintings in New York

Wassily Kandinsky Paintings in New York — Where to See Them

Approximately 0 Kandinsky paintings are on permanent display across New York’s museums — the Brooklyn Museum lists 0 paintings in its permanent holdings — so you shouldn’t expect a standing Kandinsky gallery. New York still matters because its major museums, commercial galleries and auction houses regularly bring works to the city on loan and for special exhibitions, and its archives and curatorial programs make it one of the most reliable places to catch rotating presentations and scholarship-driven shows of his work.

Brooklyn Museum

Although the Brooklyn Museum does not center on Kandinsky, its collection does include works on paper and prints by Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky — the online collection records multiple lithographs and related works (the museum’s object entries list at least several Kandinsky prints and drawings). These holdings matter because they let visitors trace his graphic practice and experiments in color and form at close range, complementing larger paintings that are more often shown at institutions like the Guggenheim or MoMA. Seeing Kandinsky’s works on paper in the Brooklyn Museum’s European/modern displays places them in dialogue with neighboring modern and early-abstract artists in the museum’s presentation, offering a focused, intimate view of his working methods and sketches rather than blockbuster canvases. ([brooklynmuseum.org](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/61768?utm_source=openai))

Address: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Hours: Wednesday–Sunday 11:00 am–6:00 pm (closed Monday–Tuesday; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day)

Admission: Pay-what-you-wish general admission; suggested: Adults $20, Seniors (65+) $14, Students (20+) $14, Ages 13–19 free, Ages 4–12 free

Tip: Ask at the front desk or check the online collection for ‘works on paper’ by Kandinsky and head first to the museum’s European/modern galleries — many of the Kandinsky items are prints or drawings in the collection and can be on rotation or shown in study galleries that casual visitors miss; weekday mornings are best for quiet, close-up viewing.

Wassily Kandinsky and New York

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) had an important institutional and exhibition connection to New York, but he did not live there. Kandinsky’s work was shown in New York as early as the 1913 Armory Show, and he received a solo exhibition in New York in 1923 organized by the Société Anonyme. ¹ After leaving Germany in 1933 Kandinsky settled in Neuilly‑sur‑Seine, France (he died there on December 13, 1944), so he was not a New York resident. ¹ New York’s Guggenheim collectors and galleries played a central role in promoting his work: Solomon R. Guggenheim and his advisers acquired many Kandinskys for the Museum of Non‑Objective Painting (the forerunner of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), and the Guggenheim has mounted major Kandinsky exhibitions and retrospectives. ¹ Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery (30 W. 57th St., opened October 20, 1942) also exhibited Kandinsky’s work alongside European modernists, helping keep his work visible in New York during the 1940s. ²³ Key New York moments therefore are: the 1913 Armory Show inclusion, the 1923 Société Anonyme solo show, and sustained institutional collecting and exhibitions by Peggy and Solomon R. Guggenheim in the 1930s–1940s. ¹²³

Wassily Kandinsky Paintings in New York — Where to See Them

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Brooklyn Museum

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