O. Louis Guglielmi

O. (Osvaldo) Louis Guglielmi (April 9, 1906 – September 3, 1956) was an American painter. He was skillfully known in New York, but soon forgotten after his death, as abstract expressionism came to overshadow artists with him. There are elements of precisionism, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism, and social realism in his work. His paintings often commented upon poverty and new social and political themes; bleakness and death appear regularly in his pre-war works. With Walter Quirt and James Guy, he was a prominent exponent of "social surrealism". After the war, his painting became more planar and abstract, with elements of cubism, and he disavowed the personal sensitive in his earlier works approving of expressing the "exuberance and organic means of dynamism itself". The New York Times also recognized his terminate to his being "a relentless borrower, an irrepressible eclectic who seemed to prey voraciously upon the styles of others".

Born in Cairo, Egypt, as a child he lived in Milan and Geneva even though his Italian father, a professional violinist, toured the world. In 1914 his parents brought him to the U.S., where they lived in Italian Harlem, New York. He was interested in sculpture at a pubescent age and worked at a casting factory. He attended the National Academy of Design in the evening introduction in 1920, while furthermore attending high school, and attended full-time from 1923 to 1926. The bordering year he became a naturalized citizen. The Great Depression brought financial hardship, but the difficult times inspired his artwork. From 1935 to 1939, he worked considering the Federal Art Project, which supported artists during the Depression. In the 1930s he spent many summers at the MacDowell Colony for artists in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Guglielmi had his first one-man enactment in 1938, exhibiting his other work Mental Geography. Inspired by the Spanish Civil War—depicting a bombed-out Brooklyn Bridge—it was a warning that European fascism might spread. Guglielmi was portion of the 1943 "American Realists and Magic Realists" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. He was in the same way as the Army Corps of Engineers in the case between 1943 and 1945, and did not paint. In the 1950s, he held positions at Louisiana State University, first as a visiting performer and subsequently as an link professor. He died in 1956 of a heart violence in Amagansett, New York.

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