Pegeen Vail Guggenheim - Edito by Philip Rylands

Pegeen Vail began painting at a very early age: her first ‘exhibition' was a show of children's art at Peggy Guggenheim's Guggenheim Jeune Gallery in London in October 1938. 10 year's later, when her paintings, as well as a collage screen by her father Laurence Vail, were was included in the pavilion of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection at the Venice Biennale, she acquired a curious distinction (unique to my knowledge) as a third generation Biennale exhibitor-preceded by her father, and by her grandfather Eugene Vail, a painter and expatriate whose name appears in the nineteenth century catalogs of the Venice Biennale.
Peggy Guggenheim continued throughout her Venetian life to encourage promote the art of her talented daughter, and writes in her memoirs (Out of This Century) of her sadness that Pegeen's death in 1967 came at a time when she was beginning to acquire an international reputation.

 Philip Rylands, Director Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Guggenheim Venezia