The Decent (Published by the WPA/Federal Arts Project)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Edition c. 25. Done for the WPA/Federal Art Project. 11 3/4” x 16 7/8".
1930s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
The Decent (Published by the WPA/Federal Arts Project)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Edition c. 25. Done for the WPA/Federal Art Project. 11 3/4” x 16 7/8".
Lithograph
$340Sale Price|20% Off
PITCHING HAY - Created for the WPA / Federal Arts Project - (FAP)
By John Turner (b.1916)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This print was done for the WPA / Federal Art Project. The editions for the WPA/FAP prints were generally 25 as in this example.
Etching
EL STATION - NINTH AVENUE LINE
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in Portland, ME
Abbott, Berenice EL STATION - NINTH AVENUE LINE Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 1936. Stamped verso "Federal Art Project/"Changing New York"/Photographs by Berenice Abbott" and also s...
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
GLADYS
By Will Barnet
Located in Portland, ME
Signed, dated and titled in ink, and stamped "Federal Art Project/NYC WPA. 14 1/2 x 10 inches, 370 x 253 mm.
Lithograph
APPEAL DENIED Actual WPA / FAP Etching with WPA / FAP Stamp
Located in Santa Monica, CA
>>Published by the WPA Federal Art Project NYC.<< With their stamp. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8”, sheet 15 ¾ x 11 ½” In very good condition
Aquatint
BACKSTAGE
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer did several prints under the auspices of the WPA's Federal Art Project, all in small editions, all now rare.
Lithograph
GUS HILL'S MINSTRELS
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in Portland, ME
Abbott, Berenice GUS HILL'S MINSTRELS Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 1936. Stamped verso "Federal Art Project/"Changing New York"/Photographs by Berenice Abbott" and also stamped and ...
Silver Gelatin
NON COMBATANTS - Actual WPA /FAP print with WPA stamp!
By Chet La More
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image 10 ½ x 14 3/8”, sheet 12 3/8 x 15 7/8. With the FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC - WPA stamp. The WPA print editions are generally 25.
Lithograph
WASHINGTON SQUARE LOOKING NORTH
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in Portland, ME
Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 1936. Stamped verso "Federal Art Project/"Changing New York"/Photographs by Berenice Abbott" and also stamped and inscribed "Title: Washington Square L...
Silver Gelatin
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
Two Trees, Country Road - Mid Century California Landscape
By Fred O. Bohne
Located in Soquel, CA
Bohne was employed by the Federal Art Project WPA, a painter and lithographer.
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$2,800
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism–Slavery, Signed Color Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Impressions of this work are held in the public collections of La Salle University Art Museum (P...
Lithograph
$4,400
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
By Harry Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Gottlieb remained active as a painter and screen printer after the closure of the Federal Art Project.
Paper, Gouache
Windswept Man Face Marble Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
By the 1930s, Saulter was active on the Federal Art Project while a resident of Los Angeles.
Marble
$1,015Sale Price|30% Off
'Vermont Quarry', Kansas City Art Institute, New York, Art Students League, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
During the 1930s Depression, he enrolled as a muralist in the Federal Art Project. He and Geno moved to Los Angeles in 1947 and co-founded the Western Serigraph Society.
Paint, Paper, Screen
$3,150
Sea Rocks - Mid Century Landscape Painting with Impasto, Circa 1940s, Signed
By Homer Levinson
Located in Soquel, CA
During the 1930s Levinson lived on the Monterey Peninsula and had a studio in Carmel where he fulfilled commissions for the Federal Art Project. In the 1960s he lived in San Francisc...
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
John E. Billmyer, Flower Piece, WPA wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
It was published in an edition of 25 by the NYC-WPA, and has a stamp that reads 'Federal Art Project No. 1.' Although this was made on the NYC Project, Billmyer is mostly associated...
Woodcut
$1,575Sale Price|30% Off
'South-Western Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, WPA, Odessa
By Todros Geller
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Chicago: 1979, pp. 28, 44, 238; Mavigliano, George J. and Richard A. Lawson. The Federal Art Project in Illinois 1935-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990, p. 1...
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
$1,225Sale Price|30% Off
'Still Life of Fruit', Denver Art Museum, WPA, Santa Barbara Museum, Who Was Who
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
During the 1930s, he was also regional advisor for the Federal Art Project and was a primary art research contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Chalk, Crayon, Ink
Untitled: Head of A Woman 1
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
A member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Constant also worked in the WPA and other Federal Art Projects and began exhibiting regularly from the late 1920s in the ...
Drypoint, Etching
Untitled: Head of A Woman 2
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
A member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Constant also worked in the WPA and other Federal Art Projects and began exhibiting regularly from the late 1920s in the ...
Drypoint, Etching
American Regionalist, Haying, Farm, screen print, 1946, museum holdings, Steffen
By Bernard Joseph Steffen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
He created lithographs for the New York Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Screen
"3rd Avenue EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
Gussow even participated in the Federal Art Project, contributing a post office mural (Recreation Hours) in East Rochester, NY.
Canvas, Oil
Morning Beneath the EL NYC American Scene WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
Gussow even participated in the Federal Art Project, contributing a post office mural (Recreation Hours) in East Rochester, NY.
Canvas, Oil
1940 American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Pushcart Tenements
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.
Watercolor
Winged Male Figure - Apollo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Herron was active in the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program which provided work to artists across the country.
Concrete
Modern art painting of a small band of horses
Located in Colfax, CA
Polos sporadically worked with the San Francisco Federal Art Project in the late 1930s. A scholarship enabled him to travel to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico and study.
Mixed Media
On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — WPA, 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Signed and titled in pencil. Stamped 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA' in the bottom left margin.
Woodcut
$4,950
Ward Lockwood “Web” 1950s Abstract Mixed Media Painting, Taos Modernist
By Ward Lockwood
Located in Denver, CO
His experience in Europe, exposure to Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh, and later involvement with the Taos art community and Federal Art Project helped shape a career defined by co...
Mixed Media, Casein, Paper, Ink
1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.
Watercolor, Board, Paper
Radiant Reflections Abstract 1950s Oil Mid 20th Century American Woman Artist
By Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
She helped found the Federal Art Project design laboratory and painted for more than 30 years on 15th Street in New York City.
Canvas, Oil
1940's American WPA Modernist New York Watercolor Painting 59th st Central Park
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.
Watercolor
1930's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Harlem River Dr
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.
Watercolor
Early Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Oil
$3,600
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting WPA Era Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
He also participated in the Federal Art Project throughout its entire duration from 1935 to 1943.
Paper, Gouache
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
He also participated in the Federal Art Project throughout its entire duration from 1935 to 1943.
Oil, Board
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
From 1936 to 1941, he was active in the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1949, he was honored with a retrospective exhibition at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Was...
Paper, Gouache
$4,800Sale Price|20% Off
"Still Life of Fruit " Albert Swinden, American Abstract Association, AAA
By Albert Swinden
Located in New York, NY
In 1935, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia attended the opening of the inaugural exhibit at the Federal Art Project Gallery, accompanied by Audrey McMahon, New York regional di...
Canvas, Oil
Metro 2nd Class
By Clement Haupers
Located in New York, NY
Upon completing his studies in France, Haupers returned to Minnesota where he became an influential teacher at the St. Paul School of Art. He rose to prominence in 1935 as the state ...
Etching, Aquatint
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Pastel
Edgar Yeager Figurative Interior Scene
By Edgar Yaeger
Located in Detroit, MI
Yaeger was best known for his contributions to the Michigan Federal Art project and the Works Progress Administration scheme during the Depression Era, to which he contributed a numb...
Canvas, Oil
PULLING CORN (FODDER HOPPER) - Scarce Print!
By Bernard Joseph Steffen
Located in Santa Monica, CA
His works are in many museums. His WPA / Federal Art Project prints are held in 13 Museum collections according to the GSA catalog on the WPA.
Screen
Untitled (Provincetown)
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
During the Great Depression Farruggio worked for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.
Oil Pastel
Southern Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
Within two years, she was back in New York working as an illustrator and attending classes at the Art Students League in 1928-29. Following a four-year sojourn to France and North Af...
Paper, Gouache
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Gussow even participated in the Federal Art Project, contributing a post office mural (Recreation Hours) in East Rochester, NY.
Oil Pastel
A 1940s American Scene Watercolor of a Chicago Street Scene by Grace Spongberg
Located in Chicago, IL
During her rich and fruitful career, Spongberg completed muralist commissions under the Works Progress Administration, painted private commissions, exhibited at numerous museums in t...
Paper, Watercolor
The Artist, American Impressionist, 1928, Oil on Canvas on Board, Painter, Woods
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Jones was involved with the Federal Art Project under President Franklin Roosevelt's WPA in the 1930s, and was an active figure in the Long Island art scene for decades, teaching at ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$4,500
Flatiron NYC Cityscape Mid-20th Century WPA American Scene Drawing Modern w/c
By Bertram Hartman
Located in New York, NY
As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (W.P.A.)
Paper, Pastel
Raging Bull Abstract Expressionist Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By William Baziotes
Located in New York, NY
During the late 1930s, the artist worked for the WPA Federal Art Project, both as a teacher and in its easel division.
Paper, Acrylic
$1,596Sale Price|20% Off
Krasner, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
By Lee Krasner
Located in Southampton, NY
During the Great Depression, Krasner joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, transitioning to war propaganda artworks during the War Services era.
Lithograph
The Party - oil on canvas - New York City town house at night - 20th century
By Aaron Berkman
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
During the Depression, in 1929 Berkman moved to New York City where he was appointed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to oversee the Federal Art Project’s Contemporary Art ...
Canvas, Oil
'de Young Mansion' – San Francisco' — California WPA, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
She went on to work for the San Francisco Fine Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project during the Great Depression.
Lithograph
$12,500
Autumn Farm 1940s American Scene WPA Woodstock Realism Modern Great Perspective
By Arnold Blanch
Located in New York, NY
In the 1930s, he was a muralist for the Federal Art Project and did work in post offices in Fredonia, New York and Norwalk, Connecticut.
Canvas, Oil
Portrait (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
By 1937, she was employed by the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration where she worked together with Benjamin Bufano from whom she was said to have develope...
Copper
Abstract Expressionist Blue Pastel Drawing Mid Century Modern WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...
Paper, Pastel
American Scene WPA Modern Watercolor 1939 Mid-20th Century Realism Cityscape
By Bertram Hartman
Located in New York, NY
As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (W.P.A.)
Paper, Watercolor
Verklaete Nacht
By Mary Henry
Located in Glenview, IL
Was affiliated with the Federal Art Project, also in Oakland, from 1938-40.
Canvas, Acrylic
Through the Window
By Joseph De Martini
Located in Boothbay Harbor, ME
Joseph De Martini's successful career began in the 1930s with the WPA Federal Art Project and the Macbeth Gallery. Over the next twenty-five years he exhibited in the most prestigio...
Oil, Board
Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In 1934 MacGurrin was invited to work on the second Federal Art Project, eventually becoming the supervisor for Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara, and in 1937 Federal Art Project ...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Lemons
By Anton Refregier
Located in Bethesda, MD
From 1934 to 1940, Refregier worked on various Federal Art Projects as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor.
Oil
Man and Woman
By Enid Bell
Located in Rego Park, NY
From 1944 to 1968, she was Instructor of Sculpture and Head of the Sculpture Department of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Previous to that time, she served for one ...
Wood
Unavailable
H 14.5 in W 22 in
Coastal Village in Massachusetts with Offshore Island, Sailboats and Houses
By Bertram Hartman
Located in Graton, CA
As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (W.P.A.)
Watercolor
Unavailable
H 14.5 in W 22 in
Coastal Village in Massachusetts with offshore island, Sailboats and Island
By Bertram Hartman
Located in Graton, CA
As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (W.P.A.)
Watercolor
Unavailable
H 14.25 in W 10.25 in D 1.13 in
"Nude at the Beach" Oil on Board by Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Pasadena, CA
In 1934 MacGurrin was invited to work on the second Federal Art Project, eventually becoming the supervisor for Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara.
Oil
Allegory No. 1
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The Los Angeles Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Southern California Art Project, took an interest in Murry’s work, and after a period of privat...
Oil, Wood Panel
Allegory No. 2
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The Los Angeles Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Southern California Art Project, took an interest in Murry’s work, and after a period of privat...
Oil, Wood Panel
Still Life
By Francis Criss
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
From 1935 to 1939, he was a teacher and muralist for the Federal Art Project of the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) – for which he did mural painting in the Williamsburg Housi...
Canvas, Oil
Wild Iris
By George Zachary Constant
Located in Rego Park, NY
A member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Constant also worked in the WPA and other Federal Art Projects. He began exhibiting regularly from the late 1920s in the ...
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Blue
By Reuben Kadish
Located in Graton, CA
During the 1930s he was in San Francisco and head of the mural division for the Federal Art Project. During WWII Kadish was an art correspondent for Life magazine.
Oil
Awakening Evidence
By Dorothy Morang
Located in Santa Fe, NM
In 1940, she joined the Federal Art Project under the supervision of Vernon Hunter.
Paper, Pastel
James Joyce
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of work, Changing New York, an extensive socio-historical record of New York’s van...
Silver Gelatin
Unavailable
H 23.5 in W 28 in D 1 in
“Lover's Point, Pacific Grove”, Oil Painting circa late 1920's by Rinaldo Cuneo
By Rinaldo Cuneo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
He was commissioned by the Federal Art Project Administrators in 1934 to paint murals in San Francisco's famous Coit Tower.
Paper, Oil
Unavailable
H 21.95 in W 29.5 in D 1 in
Abstract Expressionist Green Mold for a lithograph by Beckford Young
Located in Pasadena, CA
During the Depression Young painted murals of the Federal Art Project. He became supervisor of the Oakland area of the project and later art director for Northern California.
Mixed Media, Other Medium
Unavailable
H 25 in W 33 in D 0.88 in
Surrealist Green Acrylic Abstract by Beckford Young
Located in Pasadena, CA
During the 1930s, Young worked on Federal Art Project murals, eventually serving as Supervisor for the Oakland area and later as Art Director for Northern California.
Acrylic
Portrait of Ronald Colman
By Edna Reindel
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Reindel worked for the Federal Art Project of the WPA, completing a number of murals on commission from 1937 to 1942.
Masonite, Oil
Lyric Theater, 100 Third Avenue
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of work, Changing New York, an extensive socio-historical record of New York’s van...
Silver Gelatin
Flatiron Building, Madison Square
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of work, Changing New York, an extensive socio-historical record of New York’s van...
Silver Gelatin
Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos 4, 6, 8
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of work, Changing New York, an extensive socio-historical record of New York’s van...
Silver Gelatin
Unavailable
H 23 in W 34 in D 0.88 in
"Earth Spirits", Modern Green and Orange Acrylic Abstract by Mayo Beckford Young
Located in Pasadena, CA
During the 1930s, Young worked on Federal Art Project murals, eventually serving as Supervisor for the Oakland area and later as Art Director for Northern California.
Acrylic
Transection #15, 1972
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Cleveland, OH
Back in the United States, Carter taught at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1929 to 1937. He was also Director of the Federal Art Project for Northeastern Ohio, and taught at the Ca...
Oil
Night Blooming Cereus No. 2
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
From the mid-1930s through the early 1940s, Sheckler created prints under the auspices of the Federal Art Project. During the same period she produced a series of watercolors for the...
Paper, Lithograph
Unavailable
H 44 in W 44 in
John Saccaro Original Oil Painting On Canvas Signed Large Abstract Framed Art
By John Saccaro
Located in Bloomington, MN
John Saccaro (1913 - 1981): An American born artist who sever as a camoufleur during WWII, was enrolled in the Easel Painters and Mural Sections of the Federal Art Project, studied a...
Canvas, Oil
Shells and Rocks
Located in Spokane, WA
It also includes murals done during the 1930s, where she contributed significantly to New Deal art projects. Notably, she collaborated with artist Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli in 1939 t...
Paper, Watercolor
Flight to Egypt
By Anna Walinska
Located in New York, NY
Her parents were Russian immigrants, part of the Jewish intelligentsia whose political and social views forced them to immigrate first to London where Anna was born and later to NY. ...
Paper, Oil