About This Artwork

O. Louis Guglielmi
American, born Egypt, 1906-1956

The River, 1942

Oil on canvas
86.4 x 76.2 cm (34 x 30 in.)
Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art, 1945.6

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Mar. 21–May 2, 1943, p. 27, cat. 116.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: 1943–1944, Nov. 23, 1943–Jan. 4, 1944, cat. 38.

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, University Art Galleries, Morrill Hall, Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Mar. 5–Apr. 2, 1944, cat. 59.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Progress, May 1944, pp. 114, 221 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art, Jan. 25–Feb. 18, 1945, Checklist ??.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1945, Oct. 11–Dec. 9, 1945, cat. 253.

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Fifty-eighth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Paintings, Dec. 23–Jan. 27, cat. 23.

Art Gallery of Toronto, Contemporary Paintings from Great Britain, the United States and France, with Sculpture from the United States, Nov. 4–Dec. 25, 1949, cat. 84.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Juliana Force and American Art: A Memorial Exhibition, Sept. 24–Oct. 30, 1949, p. 69, cat. 53.

Miami, Fla., Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, American Magic Realists, Feb. 18–Mar. 27, 1977, p. 5.

New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Art Gallery, O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition, Nov. 2–Dec. 21, 1980, pp. 33–34, 79, fig. 62, cat. 43; traveled to Providence, R. I., Brown University, Bell Gallery, Jan. 10–Feb. 1, 1981; State University of New York at Albany, University Art Gallery, Mar. 1–Apr. 25; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, May 6–July 5.

Publication History

John O’Connor, Jr., “Painting in the United States, 1945,” Carnegie Magazine, 19, 5 (November 1945), pp. 144–45 (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 134.

Ownership History

The artist; sold to the Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1944; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.