Worker Painting

For Kish, Coney Island, and especially Luna Park, became a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the Social Realists to...

Mid-20th Century Russian oil on canvas painting. Circa 1940-50.  This Socialist Realist painting shows Russian workers in the fields and has a striking front-on angle with a pretty ...

He was born in Berlin of French extraction, the son of a Huguenot tapestry-worker. He studied painting at the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Berlin and later under Antoine Pesne, who...

He is best known for his landscapes, and paintings of workers or fisherman. Here he has created a scene of a black lady and young boy selling fish in the market.

As was the norm amongst modernists who wanted to represent the lives of "ordinary" workers, Rouault's prostitute paintings treated his sitters with a genuine, non-judgemental, empathy.

By the late 1880s, Roseland began painting workers in the potato and pea fields of Long Island, not far from his Brooklyn home.

For Kish, Coney Island, and especially Luna Park, became a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the Social Realists to...

He gained national recognition for paintings depicting the oppressed and the common worker.

A wonderful evocative painting of workers by the noted New York Artist Niberg Abbey (1920-1990).

Designed to promote La Società Operaia Veneziana (The Venetian Workers' Society), this oil painting is a rare blend of craftsmanship and cultural heritage.

As was the norm amongst modernists who wanted to represent the lives of "ordinary" workers, Rouault's prostitute paintings treated his sitters with a genuine, non-judgemental, empathy.

The painter Iver Rose is best known for his work which brought attention to the plight of workers in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusett...

He participated in the Public Works of Art Project and his painting, "Young Worker," exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was admired by Eleanor Roosevelt.

He was accepted to the Easel Division of the Public Works of Art Project in 1933, and started publishing lithographs for the socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Elean...

He was accepted to the Easel Division of the Public Works of Art Project in 1933, and started publishing lithographs for the socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Elean...

Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers, painting sails of a pinisi ship while working on environment...

Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers, painting sails of a pinisi ship while working on environment...

Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers, painting sails of a pinisi ship while working on environment...

Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers, painting sails of a pinisi ship while working on environment...

He was accepted to the Easel Division of the Public Works of Art Project in 1933, and started publishing lithographs for the socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Elean...

He was accepted to the Easel Division of the Public Works of Art Project in 1933, and started publishing lithographs for the socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Elean...

Alston with his art student and cousin, Romare Bearden (right), discussing one of his paintings, Cotton Workers, in 1944. Both were members of the 372nd Infantry Regiment stationed i...

Words that describe this painting: blacksmith, metal, worker, interior, anvil, man, fire, impressionism, people, oil painting, beigeHammer and AnvilOnelio MarreroOil painting on stre...

Eppy, the charms were made using heavy molds and required extensive hands-on finishing, with workers often painting details and wrapping elements by hand.

The subject of leisure time and holidays was very important in the artist's work, as it had become a law under the Popular Front in France. Leger glorified workers in his paintings, ...

A beautiful and haunting portrait of a worker dressed for painting, or removing paint from the bridge.

Böttger refined the formula and with some Dutch co-workers, experienced in firing and painting tiles, the stage was set for the manufacturing of porcelain.

Emile, Haitian artist. Naivist school. Oil on canvas, 1970s. Local workers walking by the river. Signed. In very good condition. The canvas measures: 118 x 89 cm. The frame measu...