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Title:Droll Gambit at Coney
Artist:O. Louis Guglielmi (American (born Egypt), Cairo 1906–1956 Amagansett, New York)
Date:1949
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:29 7/8 × 28 in. (75.9 × 71.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1950
Object Number:50.31.1
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Guglielmi / 49
[Downtown Gallery, New York, until 1950; sold to MMA]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 6).
New York. Downtown Gallery. "Guglielmi: Exhibition of New Paintings," November 20–December 8, 1951, no. 5.
Museum of the City of New York. "Coney Island Exhibition," April 28–August 31, 1954, no catalogue.
East Hampton, N. Y. Guild Hall. "13 Artists of the Region," August 18–September 3, 1956.
New Brunswick, N. J. Rutgers University Art Gallery. "O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition," November 2–December 21, 1980, no. 55.
Providence, R. I. Bell Gallery, Brown University. "O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition," January 10–February 1, 1981, no. 55.
University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany. "O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition," March 1–April 25, 1981, no. 55.
Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College. "Brooklyn Themes: Art in the Years of Roosevelt and La Guardia," October 26–December 7, 1982, unnum. brochure (checklist no. 27).
Bronx Museum of the Arts. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 2–March 24, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 17–June 2, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Queens. Jamaica Arts Center. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 15–July 27, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Staten Island Museum. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 8–October 20, 1985, unnum. brochure.
New York. City College of New York. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 25–December 13, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), p. 9.
Stuart Preston. "Americans, 1720–1920: A Diversity of Painters—Ernst—Guglielmi." New York Times (November 25, 1951), p. 129.
John Baker. O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Rutgers University Art Gallery. New Brunswick, N. J., 1980, pp. 47, 72 nn. 135, 140, p. 79, no. 55, fig. 93.
Eileen Watkins. "Multifaceted Guglielmi is Recalled." Sunday Star-Ledger (Newark) (November 23, 1980), section 4, p. 13.
Lowery S. Sims. The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York, 1985, unpaginated.
Norman Lewis (American, New York 1909–1979 New York)
1978
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