Juanita Rice Marbrook Guccione (née Anita Rice; 1904–1999) was an American painter, and

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. 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.

Biography

Anita Rice was her name at birth, she was born on June 20, 1904, in

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. Rice was the second oldest, and had three siblings including Irene Rice Pereira. She was raised in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and

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. 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

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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

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taxidermist and that marriage ended with his death in 1959. 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

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exhibitions, ''Painting in the United States''. In 2019, her work was in a postmortem exhibition, ''Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere'' at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville.

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,

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, New York * 2001: ''Manhattan Sisters: I. Rice Pereira, Juanita Guccione'', Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York *1975: ''Juanita Guccione: Surrealist Paintings'', Zarre Gallery, New York City, New York *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

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Juanita Marbrook Guccione papers, 1949-1973

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Marbrook, Juanita, 1948-1972

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