ONE THIRD OF A NATION, by O. Louis Guglielmi, 1939
ONE THIRD OF A NATION, by O. Louis Guglielmi, 1939, American painting, oil and tempera on wood. The title references Franklin Roosevelts 1937 inaugural address, I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. With surrealist elements, it depicts poverty with coffin-like forms and a floral mourning wreath on the building (BSLOC_2017_7_119)
Picture No
11965128
Media ID
45354852
Size
2392px x 3000px
(1.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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Art History Clarity Coffins Fine Arts Great Depression Guglielmi Imagined Irrational Isolated Lcgr1705 Lcgrfa1705 Lcgrfa2017 Linear Perspective Modernist Multi Story Buildings Multi-story Buildings No One Oil Paint Representational Sidewalk Stylized Surrealism Surrealist Symbolism Tempera On Wood
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