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O Louis Guglielmi

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O. Louis Guglielmi (1906 - 1956) was active/lived in New York / Egypt.  O Guglielmi is known for Social-surreal streetscape, non ob, teacher.

Painter O. Louis Guglielmi moved stylistically from a symbolic Social Realism, Precisionism, and Surrealism, ultimately to abstraction, but his subject matter, when it existed, dealt with society's underdogs. He had experienced slum living as a youth, moving from place to place because of his violinist father's need to find employment. Though Guglielmi was born in 1906 in Cairo, Egypt, his Italian parents moved the family to Italy. In 1914, they were living in New York City in Harlem's Italian slum.

Guglielmi was involved in the political and artistic protests of the trial, conviction as anarchist bombers, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. He painted a picture that excoriated the tenement living conditions of many Americans, "One Third of a Nation." It was such a strong statement that the State Department cancelled an international tour of American modern art.

He was a teenage art student at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Beaux Arts In   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3222 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for O Louis Guglielmi


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Advertising Art
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Still Life
  • Street Scenes, Street Genre
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Italy Before World War I
Art School
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Commercial Art and Design
  • Mural Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Edith Halpert Downtown Gallery, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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