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'Negro' — California WPA, 1930s Social Realism – African American Subject
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
278 mm). Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Scarce
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1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Unemployed Marchers — 1930s Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
to 1 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Created while Bibel worked in the New York City WPA (Works
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s. 9 x 12 inches
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Egg Tempera

On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — 1930s Graphic Modernism, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York City. Impressions of this work are
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'The Steps' — WPA Era 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
225 mm). Collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery. ABOUT THE
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'The Aquarium' — WPA Era 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, Yale University Art Gallery. ABOUT THE ARTIST Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Lower Manhattan American Modernism NYC Cityscape Social Realism WPA 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'de Young Mansion – San Francisco' — 1930s California WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project during the Great Depression
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

"Winter" American Modernism WPA Regionalism Landscape Mid-Century Magic Realism
By Dale Nichols
Located in New York, NY
possible. Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art, just launched our new digital exhibition: American Art: The WPA
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1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
American Art hung in the exhibition's entry way; other works were shown at such prestigious venues as the
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

'Sailing' — 1930s Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
condition. Scarce. Created for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

'Court' — 1930s Social Conscience, WPA Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
City Works Progress Administration (WPA). Collection: National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Surveyors WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Men Working
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Museum of American Art hung in the exhibition's entry way; other works were shown at such prestigious
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Paper

WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Double Sided WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Double Sided WPA Era Jo Cain (1904 - 2003
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Paper, Gouache

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate. BIO Michael Loew (1907
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Mid- 20th Century WPA Era Jo Cain (1904
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Paper

UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Museum of American Art hung in the exhibition's entry way; other works were shown at such prestigious
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Egg Tempera

Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

1939 Mexican Farm Worker WPA Artist Adolf Dehn American Modern Gouache Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
, Gouache Painting Hand signed and dated '39 lower left. Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. Label verso
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Gallery. We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Egg Tempera

Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Paper

"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish American Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

3 Jewish Men Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Engraving Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
shared their personal views of art and its role in society. The club became the "American Jewish Art Club
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are
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1930s Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Board

San Francisco Cable Car WPA Artist Adolf Dehn Modernist Art Gouache Oil Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Gouache

Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink

Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy
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1950s Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Judaica Etching Passover Seder Scene WPA Artist
By Philip Reisman
Located in Surfside, FL
painter and muralist on the Federal Art Project of the WPA, Works Progress Administration, the Government
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
American museums. An only child, Bunnell developed his love of art at a young age through frequent
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Buttermilk Bay, Cape Cod, " Georgina Klitgaard, Woodstock School Female WPA
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
of American Art from 1927 to 1944. In the 1936 works on paper component of the Whitney Biennial
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Thanksgiving" Doris Lee, Family Genre Scene Interior, Americana, WPA, Woodstock
By Doris Lee
Located in New York, NY
Doris Lee Thanksgiving, 1942 Signed lower right, titled lower left Lithograph on paper Image 8 3/4
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1940s American Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
Riva Helfond (1910–2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Color

Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist
By Eugenie Gershoy
Located in Surfside, FL
Scaravaglione, and Emil Ganso, which were exhibited as a group at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At age 17
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Fisherman's Wharf - San Francisco" Multi Layer Screen Print on Paper - Signed
By Gordon Cope
Located in Soquel, CA
he served as the chair of its Department of Art in 1930–1931. He taught at the Mountain School of Art
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen, Paper, Ink

Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
and for other WPA projects during the 1930s. His murals are at the Butler Institute of American Art
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

William Jacobs "Urban Scene", original pastel on paper
By William Jacobs
Located in Glenview, IL
Jacobs studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House. From the 1930's through the 1950's his
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1970s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
taught at the Kansas City Art Institute where Bunnell himself later taught in the summers of 1929-1930
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Geometric Abstract in Blue, Red, Black, and White - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Projects in the 1930s and two of his woodcuts are listed in
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s
Category

1930s American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Board

William Jacobs "Urban Scene II", original pastel on paper
By William Jacobs
Located in Glenview, IL
native, William Jacobs studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House. From the 1930's through
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1970s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA Ernest Hamlin
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Ink

MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern
By Ramstonev (Ramsey/Stone/Evans co-operative)
Located in New York, NY
"Ramstonev" stamp lower right. RAMSTONEV Cooperative Art Project (1937-1939). In the late 1930s, Charles
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1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Watercolor of Houses
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Watercolor Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

'Abstract in Coral and Ivory', New York School, Whitney Museum, WPA, Action Oil
By Victor Thall
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
United States in the early 1930's. Back in New York, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Cardboard

William Jacobs "Figures at a Table", original pastel on paper
By William Jacobs
Located in Glenview, IL
native, William Jacobs studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House. From the 1930's through
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1970s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

William Jacobs "A Stroll in the Park", original pastel on paper
By William Jacobs
Located in Glenview, IL
native, William Jacobs studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House. From the 1930's through
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1970s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
the Art Students League in New York, and he also did murals for the WPA (Works Progress Administration
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Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Church in Leadville, Colorado, 1930s Framed Landscape Watercolor Ink Painting
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
, Treasury Department, Sayre, OK, 1940. Exhibited: International Watercolors, Art Institute of Chicago, 1930
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor, Archival Ink

'Skaters' — 1930s Woodstock, New York
By Emil Ganso
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
. After his return, he worked in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Gouache, Stencil

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