
Art Institute of Chicago
The River
O. Louis Guglielmi · 1942
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to the Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1944; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Mar. 21–May 2, 1943, 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, 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, cat. 53.
- Miami, FL, Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, American Magic Realists, Feb. 18–Mar. 27, 1977, p. 5.
- New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Art Gallery, O. Louis Guglielmi: A Retrospective Exhibition, Nov. 2–Dec. 21, 1980, cat. 43, fig. 62; Providence, RI, 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.
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 70.
Literature
Published references
- John O’Connor, Jr., “Painting in the United States, 1945,” Carnegie Magazine 19, 5 (November 1945): 144–45 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 276–77, cat. 134 (ill.).
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 70.
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