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'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan' — WPA Era Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
optimism. Like many other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker and valued
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

THREE BALLET DANCERS Signed Original Lithograph, Dance Portrait, Orange, Khaki
By Moses Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
American social realist painter, best known for portraits of Depression-Era Americans. His family emigrated
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Peaceful Cove - New England, " Original Lithograph signed by Adolf Dehn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Central Park, captured the essence of the Roaring 20s and the 1930s Depression era. He earned a
Category

1940s Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

THE DOORWAY Signed Lithograph, Woman, Sleeping Cat, Victorian Stained Glass
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
Social Realism, depicting the hardships of Depression-era life. After joining the Art student League as a
Category

1990s Contemporary Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

COLLONGES la ROUGE Signed Stone Lithograph, Corrèze French Village, Peacock Dove
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
New York City, a constant source of imagery for the artist from Depression-era 40's, and the post-war
Category

1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

GRAY AND BLACK ABSTRACT 2002 Signed Lithograph, John Ashbery Suite A WAVE Poem
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
, depicting the hardships of Depression-era life. After joining the Art student League as a printer, Barnet’s
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

BRUSSEL-SMITH SELF PORTRAIT Hand Drawn Stone Lithograph, Bearded Man w Pipe
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
of his life in New York City, a constant source of imagery for the artist from Depression-era 40's
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

PLAY Signed Lithograph, Young Woman In Tree Playing with Cats, Rainbow Sunset
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
hardships of Depression-era life. After joining the Art student League as a printer, Barnet’s work moved
Category

1970s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Red Grooms Canal St Chinatown Manhattan New York City Lithograph Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1993 "East of Canal Street
Category

1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Three Girls Bronze Relief Sculpture Plaque Chaim Gross Modernist WPA Era Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
when facing somber issues such as war, depression, and the Holocaust. Gross was born to a Jewish family
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

SPRINGTIME
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Portland, ME
format lithographs in which Soyer powerfully portrayed Depression-era scenes of New York City life
Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Screenprint Serigraph Art Print WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Children Playing
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Beckmann, is a late survival of the social com­mentary expressionism of the WPA era; His early lithograph
Category

20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

'Tanks #1' — 1920s American Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
symbols of optimism. Like many other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Dream
By Will Barnet
Located in Missouri, MO
on to work in graphic arts for the Depression-era Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
Category

Early 2000s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
optimism. Like many other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker and valued
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Backyards of Broadway' — 1920s American Precisionism, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
optimism. Like many other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker and valued
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Angry Skies (Andante Cantabile) — Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
other Depression-era artists, he identified closely with the common worker and valued the consummate
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Corner of Steel Plant' — 1920s American Modernism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
skyline with its monumental skyscrapers as modern symbols of optimism. Like many other Depression-era
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Surprised Woman with Cactus 1920s Female Illustrator
By Susan Flint
Located in Miami, FL
some of her artwork and finest prints during the Depression era. She exhibited her original lithographs
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Railroad Men's Wives
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Depression era account of working men and women. Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born
Category

1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
newer wood frame About the Painting Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Glazed Ceramic Sculpture Plaque WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Couple of Lovers
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
late survival of the social com­mentary expressionism of the WPA era; His early lithograph works were
Category

20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Paint, Glaze

Modernist Nude — Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
nearly a year under fourth-generation master lithographer Edmond Desjobert in Paris. Returning to
Category

1930s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Balcomb Greene Wind Ocean Sun 1963
By Balcomb Greene
Located in Hudson, NY
(1864–1929) and Florence Stover Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era
Category

Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

UNTITLED MOUNTAINS
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression
Category

1930s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Tempera

VOLCANO
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression
Category

1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Tempera

SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression
Category

1930s American Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor

DEBRIS - Large Ink Drawing - Study for the Print
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

PLUNGING COMET
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
of Expressionism. He conveyed the darkness and upheaval that gripped the country in the depression
Category

1930s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Granite

View From the Park (Colorado) Mountain View Oil Landscape Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Barker
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Depression era American fine prints. Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) Reginald Marsh was born over a small cafe
Category

1930s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

1930s Graphite Drawing, American Modern City Scene of Houses on a Hill, Colorado
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Geometric Abstract in Blue, Red, Black, and White - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
painter and lithographer, and he was included in the Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, Blue Brown Orange Sage Green
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Balcomb Greene "The Cliffs", 1978
By Balcomb Greene
Located in Hudson, NY
Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era colonists, originally living in
Category

Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Balcomb Greene "The Cliffs", 1978
Balcomb Greene "The Cliffs", 1978
H 62 in W 56 in D 2 in
20th Century Framed and Signed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Orange, Pink, Red
Located in Denver, CO
preparation in Lincoln by twenty-nine workers employed in a Depression-era project sponsored by the federal
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Depression era watercolor painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) titled "The Way War First
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Red Grooms Moonstruck Porcelain Sculpture Plate 3D Manhattan NYC Cartoon
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
the Great Depression. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College
Category

1990s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Porcelain, Screen

Pikes Peak, 1940s Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn, Tempera Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category

1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Board

Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Cripple Creek Victor Mine, Colorado Mountain Landscape, 1940 Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own Colorado Springs studio in 1949. He
Category

1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Manitou, Colorado with Pikes Peak View, 1920s Mountain Landscape Oil Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category

1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
facing somber issues such as war, depression, and the Holocaust. Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Birth, 1940s Modernist Surrealist Abstract Figural Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category

1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1920s Colorado Landscape Painting, Framed Western Oil Painting, Sky and Buttes
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category

1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Joseph LeBoit, New York Depression Era Funeral Scene
Located in Treasure Island, CA
psychoanalysis to the working class. Leboit is best known for the searing etchings and lithographs he made while
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Father's Arm
Located in South Bend, IN
Migration during the dust bowl era / Great Depression. Hung Liu's current work addresses ongoing
Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Father's Arm
Father's Arm
H 35 in W 27.75 in D 0.07 in
The Roundhouse
By Harry Gottlieb
Located in Oakland, CA
, dehumanizing, and environmentally threatening, to Gottlieb and the depression-era Social Realists, a working
Category

1920s Realist More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Route 66 with Cat
Located in South Bend, IN
Depression era imagery reminiscent of Grapes of Wrath, inspired by photos in the Dorothea Lange
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Route 66 with Cat
Route 66 with Cat
H 25.25 in W 31.5 in D 0.07 in
Route 66
Located in South Bend, IN
Depression era imagery reminiscent of Grapes of Wrath, inspired by photos in the Dorothea Lange
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Route 66
Route 66
H 25.25 in W 31.5 in D 0.07 in
Study of a Woman and Horse Executed on a Reminder Pad, circa 1934;
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Paris, FR
a Female Nude and Horse, executed on a reminder pad sheet. During the Depression, artists often
Category

1930s Art Deco Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink

Study of a Woman's Face - with Re-study of Mouth - on Reminder Pad. Circa 1934
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Paris, FR
, executed on a reminder pad sheet. During the Depression, artists often resorted to unconventional paper
Category

1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink

Harvesters WPA Depression Era American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism Workers
By Harry Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Harvesters WPA Depression Era American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism Workers Canvas measure 28
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Big Pagoda 1997" Estate Lithograph
By Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Jean Michel Basquiat "Big Pagoda 1997" Limited Edition Print: Lithograph in Colors Approximate
Category

1990s Pop Art Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Mid-Century Watercolor Painting Over Lithograph WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Beckmann, is a late survival of the social com­mentary expressionism of the WPA era; His early works were
Category

20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Hand Colored Lithograph by Harry Eliott (1882- 1959) Paris- Madrid 1908
Located in Chicago, IL
Original French lithograph by Harry Eliott aka Charles Edmund Hermet depicting antique modes of
Category

20th Century French Posters

Route 66 With Cat
Located in Santa Fe, NM
in Dorothy Lange's photographs from Depression Era United States.
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Lithograph

Gray Day at the Beach
By Doris Emrick Lee
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Aledo, Illinois, artist Doris Lee was one of the most successful artists of the Depression
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Grasshopper
By Otis Dozier
Located in Dallas, TX
favored by regionalist artists. Several of his major works from this era focused on the plight of farmers
Category

1980s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Depression Era Lithographs For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of depression era lithographs for sale on 1stDibs. There are many modern, abstract and Expressionist versions of these works for sale. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Depression era lithographs available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes gray, black, brown, white and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Charles Ragland Bunnell, Louis Lozowick, Will Barnet, Bernard Brussel-Smith and Adolf Dehn produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Frequently made by artists working in paint, lithograph and watercolor, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are Depression Era Lithographs?

The average selling price for depression era lithographs we offer is $2,950, while they’re typically $500 on the low end and $106,000 for the highest priced.