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O Louis Guglielmi

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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Facts about O Louis Guglielmi

   Publications  Book References:  80
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for O. Louis Guglielmi
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Surrealism USA January 2005 Dervaux, Isabelle Yes
American Art Review American Narrative Paintings February 2004 Eiland, William Underwood Yes
American Art Review 20th Century American Art October 2000 Robertson, Bruce Yes
American Art Review Twenty Years of Art December 1996 Goley, Mary Anne Yes
American Art Review The MacDowell Colony November 1996 Wolf, Tom Yes
American Art Review In the Eye of the Storm December 1995 Pohl, Frances Yes
80 Book References for O. Louis Guglielmi
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Eldredge and Eiland Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums 0 Yes
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1998 Sawin, M; W. Jeffett Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 40s 0 Yes
1996 Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
103 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1995 Tashjian, Dickran A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 424 No
1993 Soria, Regina American Artists of Italian Heritage/1776-1945 178 No
1992 Harnsberger, R S/D Henderson Ten Precisionist Artists Annotated Bibliographies 350 No
1992 Lublin, Mary American Selections 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
163 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Conrad, Peter The Art of the City Views and Versions of New York 329 No
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)
113 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
301 Yes
1981 Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries Social Art in America 1930-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
62 No
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Wooden, Howard E. (Text) The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1980 Baker, John O Louis Guglielmi A Retrospective Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
81 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
544 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Spencer Museum of Art Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection 168 Yes
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Power
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)
172 No
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)
116 Yes
1976 Meltzer, Milton Violins & Shovels The W P A Arts Projects 160 No
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)
186 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1968 Georgia Museum of Art Highlights from the Collections Georgia Museum of Art 36 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Sadik, Marvin S Edith Halpert & the Downtown Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
96 No
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1960 Walker Art Center The Precisionist View in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1943 Miller, Dorothy/Alfred H Barr American Realists & Magic Realist
(Exhibition catalog)
67 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)
111 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1936 Cahill, Holger (Introduction) New Horizons in American Art (Federal Art Project exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NY)
(Exhibition catalog)
171 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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