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James Guy (1909-1983)
Industrial Symphony
signed 'Guy' (lower right)--signed again, dated '1943' and inscribed with title (on the backing board)
gouache on paperboard
8¼ x 9¼ in. (21 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed in 1943.
Provenance
Martin Diamond Fine Art, New York.
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Born in 1910 in Hartford, Connecticut, James Guy was an early American modernist known for his lively surrealist abstractions. While he spent most of the 1930s painting politically active works closer to a social-surrealist style, from 1942-1945 the artist was employed in an airplane factory, where he gleaned inspiration from the sharp geometric forms and bright colors. Guy's work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

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