Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi was an American painter. He was well known in New York, but soon forgotten after his death, as abstract expressionism came to overshadow artists like him. There are elements of precisionism, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism, and social realism in his work. His paintings often commented on poverty and other 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 sadness in his earlier works in favor of expressing the "exuberance and organic means of life itself". The New York Times also attributed his decline to his being "a relentless borrower, an irrepressible eclectic who seemed to prey voraciously on the styles of others".
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Exhibitions
12 exhibitionsSep 14, 1936 – Oct 12, 1936
New Horizons in American Art
283 artists · 1 curator
Dec 07, 1936 – Jan 17, 1937
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
179 artists · 1 curator
May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938
Three Centuries of American Art
247 artists · 7 curators
May 10, 1939 – Sep 30, 1939
Painting, Sculpture, Prints
154 artists
Apr 03, 1940 – Apr 28, 1940
Four American Traveling Exhibitions
54 artists · 1 curator
Jan 28, 1942 – Mar 02, 1942
The Artists' New York
20 artists
Feb 10, 1943 – Mar 21, 1943
Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists
42 artists · 2 curators
May 24, 1944 – Oct 15, 1944
Painting, Sculpture, Prints
133 artists · 1 curator
Dec 23, 1948 – Mar 13, 1949
American Paintings from the Museum Collection
115 artists · 1 curator
Oct 19, 1954 – Feb 06, 1955
XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
260 artists
Apr 25, 1961 – Aug 07, 1961
America Seen: Between The Wars
34 artists
May 27, 1964 – Feb 07, 1965
From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits
13 artists