The Alamo
Artist:
Rodolfo (Rudolph) Guzzardo Guzzardi
(American, born Italy, 1903 - 1962)
Place depicted:San Antonio, Texas
Date: 1937
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
framed: 37 3/8 × 48 1/16 in. (95 × 122 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Rev. James E. Aydelotte, Ph.D.
Object number: 2022.9
Signed: Lower left, R.G. Guzzardi
Provenance: Rodolfo Guzzardo Guzzardi (1903-1962); by gift to James Aydelotte, Dallas, TX; by inheritance to James E. Aydelotte, Black Mountain, NC; by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2022.
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While born in Florence, Italy, Rodolfo Guzzardi ultimately made his home in Texas. After serving in the military and working as a journalist in his home country, he immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s, first settling in New York where he began his career as an artist followed by Houston in 1933, where he remained for nearly the rest of his life. He was an active part of the Houston art community, working as an artist, dealer, conservator, and the first chairman of the art department at Sacred Heart Dominican College. The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas depicts the iconic historical landmark and relates to other paintings he executed of the San Antonio Missions along with landscapes and other sites in his adopted home of Texas.
(Regina Palm, 2022)
(Regina Palm, 2022)
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