Juanita Guccione Explained

Juanita Guccione
Other Names:	Nita Rice, Juanita Rice, Juanita Mabrouk, Juanita Rice Marbrook, Juanita Rice Guccione
Birth Name:	Anita Rice
Birth Date:	20 June 1904
Birth Place:	Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Place:	New York City, U.S.
Education:	Pratt Institute, Art Students League of New York
Movement:	Cubist, realist, Surrealist
Spouse:	Dominick J. Guccione (m. 1943–1959; death)
Children:	Djelloul Marbrook^[1]
Relatives:	Irene Rice Pereira (sister)

Juanita Rice Marbrook Guccione (née Anita Rice; 1904–1999) was an American painter, and taxidermist.^[2]

During the 1930s she changed her name from Anita to Nita, and then later to Juanita Rice. She had used her partners last name Mabrouk, but later Americanized his name to Marbrook, and lastly she remarried in 1943 and used the surname Guccione.^{[3] [4]}

Biography

Anita Rice was her name at birth, she was born on June 20, 1904, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.^[5] Rice was the second oldest, and had three siblings including Irene Rice Pereira.^[6] She was raised in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and Brooklyn. When she was young, she worked as a fashion model in New York City.

She studied at Pratt Institute, followed by study at the Art Students League of New York, and later with Hans Hofmann from the mid-1930s to 1944. During the early 1930s she lived among the Ouled Naïl people in eastern Algeria, where she met Ben Aissa Mabrouk. Together with Ben Aissa Mabrouk, they had a child, Djelloul Marbrook born in 1934.

She was married to Dominick J. Guccione in 1943, a noted Woodstock taxidermist and that marriage ended with his death in 1959.^{[7] [8] [9]} After his death, she took over his taxidermy business, and moved to New York City where she did a lot of taxidermy-based interior decor such as animal skin rugs.

Guccione had held solo art exhibitions of her paintings in New York City, Woodstock, Washington D.C., Paris, Algeria and in India. In 1946 and 1947, her work was part of the Carnegie Prize exhibitions, Painting in the United States.^[10] In 2019, her work was in a postmortem exhibition, Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville.^{[11] [12]}

Exhibitions

• 2019: Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, California
• 2007: For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York^[13]
• 2001: Manhattan Sisters: I. Rice Pereira, Juanita Guccione, Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York^[14]
• 1975: Juanita Guccione: Surrealist Paintings, Zarre Gallery, New York City, New York^[15]
• 1946: Painting in the United States, Carnegie Prize, New York City, New York
• 1947: Painting in the United States, Carnegie Prize, New York City, New York

Further reading

• Morgan, Tabitha Adams, "A 'Living Art': Working-Class, Transcultural, and Feminist Aesthetics in the United States, Mexico, and Algeria, 1930s" (2012). Open Access Dissertations. 590. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/590

External links

• • Juanita Marbrook Guccione papers, 1949-1973, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Marbrook, Juanita, 1948-1972, University of West Georgia Special Collections

Notes and References

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2. Book: Newgold, Bill. Guide to Modern Hobbies, Arts, and Crafts. 1960. D. McKay Company. 273. en.
3. Web site: Marbrook, Juanita. 2021-09-23. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. Oxford University Press. en. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00116144. 978-0-19-977378-7.
4. Book: Bauduin. Tessel M.. Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous. Ferentinou. Victoria. Zamani. Daniel. 2017-10-16. Routledge. 978-1-351-37902-1. 465. en.
5. Book: Who's Who in American Art 2003-2004. June 2003. Marquis Who's Who. 978-0-8379-6304-4. en. 484.
6. Web site: Juanita Guccione - Biography. 2021-09-23. AskArt.com.
7. Web site: Dorfman. John. 2017-06-28. Juanita Guccione: The Shapeshifter. 2021-09-23. Art & Antiques Magazine. en-US.
8. Web site: June 13, 1959. Dominick J. Guccione. subscription. 2021-09-23. Newspapers.com. The Charlotte Observer. 12. en.
9. Web site: Ullmann. Nadine. August 11, 1960. Wildlife Tale: Lots of Stuff and No Nonsense. subscription. 2021-09-23. Newspapers.com. Newsday (Suffolk Edition). 51. en.
10. Web site: 2015-01-23. Carnegie International Timeline. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150123151759/http://old.post-gazette.com/newslinks/19991031timeline.asp. January 23, 2015. 2021-09-23. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
11. Web site: 2019. Juanita Guccione Otherwhere. 2021-09-23. SFGate.
12. Web site: Martin. John Henry. October 30, 2019. HERstory: Women in the arts considered at Napa Valley Museum. 2021-09-23. Napa Valley Register. en.
13. Web site: For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s. 2021-09-23. tfaoi.org.
14. Book: Manhattan Sisters: I. Rice Pereira, Juanita Guccione. 2001. Fletcher Gallery. Fletcher Gallery. Manhattan, NY. en.
15. Book: Women Artists Newsletter. 1975. Midmarch Associates. 8. en.