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Style: American Realist
Period: 1930s
Circus Acrobats - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )
Located in Miami, FL
As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of ex...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern William Gropper (1898 - 1977) Unemployed 20 x 16 inches Oil on canvas, 1937 Signed lower right Provenance: E...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

On the Balcony - American Scene Female Artist
By Louise Lue Osborne
Located in Miami, FL
Female artist Louise Lue Osborne paints a classic composition with an interaction of two women and a child soaked in golden late light. The figural gro...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Synthetic Resin, Fiberboard

Portrait of Chinese Couple. Pearl S. Buck Tiger Tiger Illustration Cosmopolitan
Located in Miami, FL
Among the many accolades I would grant Dean Cornwell, the one that rises to the top would be that he is one of America's greatest portrait painters. With a few strokes, he captures h...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Abraham Lincoln
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charles E. Willette: 1899-1979. Listed American artist who studied at the Arts Student League in the 1930s with Raphael Soyer and Robert Brackman. This powerfully painted portrait of...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories. The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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A girl who loves the sea II
Located in Zofingen, AG
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Portrait of a Gentleman, Early American Portraiture, 1830s Portrait of a Man
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John F Francis (American, 1808 - 1886) " Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1838 Oil on Canvas 30" x 25" Housed in a 3 1/2" Frame Overall Size: 37" x 32" ...
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The grape picker
Located in Zofingen, AG
Classical portrait of a woman harvesting grapes. In this oil painting, I captured the serene essence of nature and the simple elegance of human connection with the earth. The centr...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Linen

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The grape picker
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Located in Zofingen, AG
"A continuation of the ballet topic. A contrasting ballerina portrait. In this artwork I tried the tender interplay of light and shadow. Oil medium allowed me to layer and blend, cra...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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The ballet angel
The ballet angel
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Located in Zofingen, AG
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Walking on the beach
Located in Zofingen, AG
A beautiful contrasting woman portrait with a sea in the background. In this oil painting, I captured a moment of sunset and the evening light playing in the hair of a woman walking ...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Walking on the beach
Walking on the beach
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American Midwest Regional Portrait Oil Painting, Circle of Grant Wood, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Create a statement or focal piece for a room. This is a very stylized portrait of a woman dating to the 1940’s. She fills the canvas with her wholesome countenance, hair and period c...
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Mid Century Portrait of Wine Enologist Claude Wolf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wine Enologist Claude Wolf - Mid Century Portrait A stately mid-century portrait of Claude Wolf (1904-1973), a vintner Enologist by Abel George Warshawsky...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Mid Century Portrait of Woman in Red Hat
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century portrait of a woman wearing red by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Canvas has been mounted on fiberboard. Unframed. ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard

Antique American Impressionist Painting Red Riding Hood Framed 19th Century
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique American painting by Samuel Knight Wright, depicting the fairytale character of "Little Red Riding Hood" on her way to gr...
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Late 19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mid Century Figurative Portrait of a Boy with Toy Car
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic mid century portrait of a boy playing with an antique toy car by Ralph Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" in the lower left ...
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Let The Spirit Live, WPA Poster Design NRA Illustration Mural Modernist Woman
Located in New York, NY
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Mother and Child
By Miriam Tindall Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MIRIAM TINDALL SMITH "MOTHER AND SON" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1930 36 X 28 INCHES Miriam Tindall Smith 1901- She studied at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelp...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Portrait of the Artist's Brother
By Augustine Korda
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique oil painting by American female artist Augustine Korda.
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Pensive
By Edward Miles Dreis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
EDWARD MILES DREIS "PENSIVE" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1935 30 X 21 INCHES Edward Miles Dreis 1908-1975 Dreis was born in Chicago, IL on Oct. 26, 1908. Dreis moved to California with his family in 1914. He studied at the CSFA and with Diego Rivera. During the 1920s he was a resident of San Francisco and by the early 1930s had moved down the peninsula to Santa Cruz. During the late 1930s he lived in Woodstock, NY as an employee of the Federal Art Project. About 1946 he returned to Santa Cruz and abandoned art...
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Offset

No Help Wanted
By Hilda Davidson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
HARRIET DAVIDSON "NO HELP WANTED" OIL ON CANVASBOARD, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1930 20 X 16 INCHES Biographical information coming, acquired from the daughter of the artist.
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1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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At the Opera
By Rudolf Anton Bernatschke
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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