Peggy Guggenheim was a colorful character who was not only ahead of her time, but helped to define it. Heiress to her family’s fortune, she became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she not only collected art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.