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Depression Era New York City - Journey Back in Time - American Scene Painting
By Arnold Friedman
Located in Miami, FL
lives. The painting was done during The Depression and mailman represents most of us. American Scene
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC Jo Cain (1904
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Post Office Parcel Post Window - Depression Era
By Arnold Friedman
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman worked as a clerk for decades at the Station Y, the branch at 3rd Avenue and East 67th Street in New York City. This present work was done two years after his retirem...
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing. Study to Scale
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Board

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
By Ralph Fasanella
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now
Category

1940s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
paintings at the Art Exhibition by the Staff Artists of the American Museum of Natural History. In 1936 the
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Bliss, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from in my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Timeless Beauty, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD, and anxiety, painting is a
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Peaceful ocean, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

This is perfection, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Lucent ocean waters, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Heaven on Earth, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The happy place, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from in my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A moment of peace, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
pink sand beach Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A day to remember, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
pink sand beach Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

I dream of you, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Window into my shoul, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A beach for daydreaming, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create a peaceful
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Coral reef Australia #1, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

You Are Always On My Mind, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD, and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Sand Beach - Elafonisi Beach Greece #1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Bahamas Harbour Island pink sand beach, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create a peaceful and
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Sand Beach - Elafonisi Beach Greece #2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create
Category

2010s Minimalist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Sand Beach - Elafonisi Beach Greece #1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Sand Beach - Elafonisi Beach Greece #8, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
in Greece Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pink Sand Beach - Elafonisi Beach Greece #8, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create
Category

2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Learning to fly, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from in my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

This is enough, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from my last vacation there. Dealing with depression, PTSD, and anxiety, painting is a
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Round Ocean #69, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Caicos Islands from my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD, and anxiety, painting is a form
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Impressionist inspired abstract modern landscape painting w/ flowers, landscape
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a signed, original, mid-century modern abstract landscape oil painting with white flowers
Category

1970s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Landscape
By Marcel Emile Cailliet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
paintings from the Depression Era Mid-West, but what sets Cailliet’s California landscape apart is its
Category

1940s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"WESTERN MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE" AUSTIN ARTIST FRAMED 27 X 46
By A.D. Greer
Located in San Antonio, TX
during the Depression, he had numerous jobs painting church domes, lettering signs on water towers and
Category

1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
verso, presented in a newer frame The Demagogue is an iconic Bendor Mark painting from the prime of
Category

1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New York scene done by John Grabach Artist "Trinity Church - Wall Street"
Located in Rockport, MA
Institute of Chicago. However, as the Great Depression unfolded, Grabach's paintings underwent a profound
Category

1920s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"MR. HANDSOME" TEXAS LONGHORN
Located in San Antonio, TX
character or a depression era car his painting backdrop is the Lone Star State. He has been wielding a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

PORTRAIT OF HAROLD STERNER
Located in Portland, ME
career, particularly during the depression, when he used painting as a means of earning extra money
Category

1910s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel

Flying over The Bahamas #3, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD, and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I
Category

2010s Photorealist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Depression
Located in MADRID, ES
Depression
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Depression
H 48.01 in W 48.01 in D 0.4 in
Depression Diptych
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Gandom Mizban takes expression to a new level with her evocative style and message. Her paintings
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Erik ud af Depression" (Erik out of Depression)
Located in København S, DK
This rare painting is from the early works of the renowned Danish artist Kirsten Ortwed, known for
Category

1980s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ordinary Time, Depression Glass Bowl Painting
By Laura Lasworth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ordinary Time, 2016 oil on wood panel 7 x 7" - framed Lasworth is known for her sophisticated use of religious, philosophical and personal symbolism. Her work recalls classica...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Depression Glass Tree, oil painting on wood panel
By Laura Lasworth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depression Glass Tree, 2016 oil on wood panel 13-1/4 x 13-1/4" -framed Lasworth is known for
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Depression Glass Tea Cup
By Laura Lasworth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depression Glass Tea Cup, 2016 oil on wood panel 9-1/4 x 9-1/4" - framed Lasworth is known
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Coming Out of Depression by British Contemporary Artist Thomas Dowdeswell
By Thomas W. Dowdeswell
Located in London, GB
Thomas Dowdeswell pulls back the curtain on current, controversial issues with surreal political satire, challenging the viewer to confront, digest and empathize with multiple perspe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Still Life” California Modernist painting circa 1930's by Maxine Albro
By Maxine Albro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
known as a muralist, painting under the Depression-Era Works Progress Administration's program. She
Category

1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Totemic Structure I
By Seymour Fogel
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
modernist painter whose work spanned the politically-engaged mural painting of the Depression era (he
Category

1970s Constructivist Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Totemic Structure I
H 84 in W 17 in D 16.25 in
Depression
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Depression is an original watercolor and pen on mixed media wood panel by Sean 9 Lugo. This piece
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Wood Panel

Depression
Depression
H 18 in W 18 in D 1.5 in
"Seamstresses" American Scene Modernism WPA Figurative Depression Era Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
New York City working women are depicted in Jo Cain's figurative interior painting "Seamstresses
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Rag Pickers" NYC Depression Era WPA American Scene Modernism Figurative Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Rag Pickers" by Thomas Attardi is an oil painting showing a depression era New York City. Painted
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Depression Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern WPA American Scene NYC
Located in New York, NY
Depression Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern WPA American Scene NYC Saul Kovner (1904
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Loggers WPA Depression Era Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
By William L'Engle
Located in New York, NY
Loggers WPA Depression Era Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Oil on board, 24
Category

1940s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

THREE MEN ON A BENCH Chicago WPA Figurative Urban Depression Era American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Institute of Chicago. He was an artist on the WPA. The painting measure 26 x 36 inches. Housed in a carved
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Deserted Farmyard, Minnesota, 1938, " Rural Midwestern Great Depression Scene
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
lithographs, which he was able to sell and supported him though the difficult years of the depression.  In
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fortune Magazine cover Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist. Signed lower left
Category

1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Board

Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right Framed by Bark Baker was a self-taught illustrator. Most of his works were covers for Time Magazine, although he was responsible for eleven covers for Fortune Mag...
Category

1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Board

"Gas Tanks" Industrial WPA Depression-Era, Woodstock American Scene Industrial
By Miron Sokole
Located in New York, NY
. Sokole was also an integral part of the Federal Arts Project during the Great Depression. During the
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

SILOS American Scene WPA Depression industrial Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in New York, NY
SILOS American Scene WPA Depression industrial Mid Century Modern Social Realism Vincent
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

ON LINE Depression Era WPA American Scene Modernism Realism Drawing Watercolor
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
ON LINE Depression Era WPA American Scene Modernism Realism Drawing Watercolor. Louis Bouche (1986
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

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