O. Louis Guglielmi

Born in Egypt, brought to New York City in 1914. Artist who worked as a WPA muralist in the 1930s, compassionately portrayed the poor in his own paintings, but later adopted a much more abstract style.Charles Sullivan, edAmerican Beauties: Women in Art and Literature(New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)