Which artist painted Broadway Boogie Woogie, held in the Guggenheim collection?

Piet Mondrian painted Broadway Boogie Woogie, held in the Guggenheim collection.

Mondrian created the painting in New York in 1942–1943, near the end of his life. It transforms his familiar abstract vocabulary of straight lines and rectangular blocks into a lively pattern of colored squares and short segments.

The title connects the work to Manhattan’s Broadway and to boogie-woogie music, whose repeated rhythms influenced Mondrian’s late paintings. Unlike many earlier compositions, the image does not rely on heavy black grid lines; its colored units create much of the structure themselves.

Broadway Boogie Woogie is associated with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. It is often discussed as an example of how Mondrian adapted De Stijl ideas to the energy and visual experience of modern American city life.