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Who welcomed Piet Mondrian into the New York art world?
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Piet Mondrian
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
When Piet Mondrian arrived in New York City in 1940, he was welcomed by the American artist Harry Holtzman, the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, art critic and museum director James Johnson Sweeney, and other members of the American artistic vanguard.1