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Social Realist Painting of a Grain Warehouse by Robert Lavin
Located in San Mateo, CA
painted in the American Social Realist style of the 1930's. His works portrayed industry and workers.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Industrial Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
Aaron, American Social Realist Lithograph
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
lifestyle. Much like most of Benton's work, this portrait captures the true feeling of the American social
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Social Realist Original Lithograph Advertisement Moses Soyer
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Any Day in America', Social Realist, Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg
By Ron Croci
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
substantial, Social Realist watercolor showing a view of a ramshackle rust-belt landscape with the victims of
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Black Man with Banjo, " Rare Example of Social Realist Sculpture by Shearwater
By Walter Anderson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
by Social Realists such as Thomas Hart Benton and James Daugherty, this rare sculpture of a Black
Category
Vintage 1930s North American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
H 9.5 in W 6 in D 5 in
Louis Leon Ribak Oil ainting “ruby in red” Social Realist Style
By Louis Ribak 1
Located in Westport, CT
magazine The New Masses.[1]
In the 1930s and 1940s, Ribak painted in a Social Realist style, exhibiting
Category
Early 20th Century American Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Driftwood, Masonite, Paint
Social Realist GREEN STAIRS Architectural Street Scene Landscape Oil Painting
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, late 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jewish Shtetl Peddlar Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jewish Shtetl Machers Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jewish Shtetl Peddlar Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Women, Dishes, Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
anger from the Japanese government.
As an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Social Realist Street Scene of Youth at Play (African American)
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
/2"; Frame: 12 1/2" x 25"]. Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jewish Shtetl Klezmer Wedding Tanz Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shift Change, Social Realist Woodblock Print by Mike Goscinsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Shift Change
Mike Goscinsky, American (1933–2021)
Woodblock on thin wove paper, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 15/75
Image Size: 14 x 19 inches
Size: 22 x 26.5 in. ...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Rabbi, Cup of Tea, Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
anger from the Japanese government.
As an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957
Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Ber...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed Paul Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Framed Young Woman Portrait Social Realist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school modernist portrait. Oil on canvas. Framed. Ready to hang excellent condition.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 24 in W 28 in D 2 in
"Walking the Cows" Important Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944
By Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Portrait of a Woman" Ernest Crichlow, Social Realist, Intimate Seated Portrait
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in New York, NY
on social injustices before the successes of the civil rights movement, Ernest Crichlow had his
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
God Bless Our Home, Social Realist Scene, Figurative Americana Interior Scene
Located in Doylestown, PA
, and social realism and worked as a newspaper artist during the 1910's and 1920's. He was a Veteran of
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Calla Lily and Purple Hills", Social Realist Painting of Oklahoma Landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
permitted, is very reminiscent of the work of John Steuart Curry and other masters of Social Realism
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 21.25 in W 18.25 in D 1 in
Antique American Modernist WPA Social Realist Carnival Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist carnival scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 14H by 18L.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 18 in W 22 in D 2 in
"Circus Is in Town, " Social Realist Painting with Elephants and Giraffe
By Anne Walker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exuberant and vividly painted, this painting depicts the circus big top on the edge of a small town, with a wagon to one side, a pair of elephants waiting for their moment, and two c...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
-level as egalitarian, socialist view via social realism style painting and drawing.
Schloss became
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Social Realist Portrait Painting of a Coal Mine Owner by Jesse F. Reed
By Jesse F. Reed
Located in Baltimore, MD
is one of American Social Realism with a modernist sensibility.
Jesse Reed was born in Belington
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York Social Realist Etching Cease To Do Evil Learn To Do Well WPA Artist NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
18.5x15.5, 6.25 x 5 mat cut size. edition 1/6 signed and dated.
Albert Sway (b.1913)
Painter, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, cartoonist and teacher, Albert Sway was born in Cin...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Whip - Social Realism
By William Gropper
Located in Miami, FL
this work.
Gropper was a social realist and a radical of his time and a commentator on political and
Category
1960s Conceptual Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two Reclining Nudes, Raphael Soyer
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairfield, CT
social realist artists of the 1930s, whose art championed the cause of social justice.
Soyer was
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Graphite
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
By Philip Evergood
Located in New York, NY
abstraction and realism and subjects in the 1930s that made him one of the leading social realists in New York
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Girl with Braided Hair, Raphael Soyer
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairfield, CT
realist artists of the 1930s, whose art championed the cause of social justice.
Soyer was referred to as
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realist Landscape Original Oil Painting- Small Green Tonal Midwestern Scene
Located in Marco Island, FL
, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Ivan Olinsky. Adopting the Social Realist style, he tried to paint in the same
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in Yellow Dress
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Jack Levine WW11 Painting
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine: 1915-2010. Well listed American social realist painter with auction results over
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Shipyard" Realist Industrial Landscape
By Robert Lavin
Located in Austin, TX
This painting is a 20th century realist landscape depiction of a shipyard by Robert Lavin. The
Category
20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
NURSING MOTHER, Signed Lithograph, Motherhood, Social Realism, Breastfeeding Art
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
New Yorkers. Historically, Soyer is associated with the social realist artists of the 1930s, whose art
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Girl Reading Card-American Realist Portrait-Mid-Century Original Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Ivan Olinsky. Adopting the Social Realist style, he tried to paint in the same
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
AFTER THE BATH Signed Lithograph, Interior Scene, Nude Woman, Realist Drawing
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
work portrays the daily life of New Yorkers. Historically, Soyer is associated with the social realist
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Early Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Early Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
SEATED WOMAN NEAR A BED Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait, Plum Top Blue Skirt
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
associated with the social realist artists of the 1930s, whose art championed the cause of social justice.
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Blue Pastel Drawing Mid Century Modern WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Intersection Figurative art, Social Realism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Soviet Union's social realist movement. Known for his mastery in capturing the essence of daily life and
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Scene After Jacob Lawrence
By After Jacob Lawrence
Located in Pasadena, CA
-American art .
Painter. A social realist, Lawrence documented the African American experience in several
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Street Scene II
By Raphael Soyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, Street Scene
By Raphael Soyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
, social-realist impact and was apparently prompted by the extended strikes staged in 1936-37 by workers at
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
La Barque Echouee (Mourlot, Paris)
By Andre Minaux
Located in Kansas City, MO
.: 924802-1549
André Minaux was a French artist best known for his stylized Social Realist paintings and
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
'Maw' Painting by Stephen Greene
Located in Dallas, TX
the social realist imagery of his early career for the Color Field School of the mid 20th century
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
1944 Untitled Portrait Representing a Mexican Labor Protest, Signed M.S. Rivera
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1944 Social Realist, untitled caricature portrait representing a Mexican labor protest, signed
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
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