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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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