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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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
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
Materials
Oil
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By Edward Miles Dreis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
EDWARD MILES DREIS
"PENSIVE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1935
30 X 21 INCHES
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