$7,500
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
By Boris Deutsch
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles.
Canvas, Oil
$5,000
Seated Figure of a Man (Los Angeles California WPA Artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Pasquale Napolitano (1901-2001) Seted Figure of a Man, ca. 1935. Carved hardwood, measuring 22" h., 9.75" d., 14" w. Signed bottom right side. Natural wood shrinkage cracking on...
Wood
'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
$2,800
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism–Slavery, Signed Color Lithograph
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Image size 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; (270 x 216 mm); sheet size 14 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (376 x 278 mm). Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project...
Lithograph
$1,850
'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Working with the WPA as one of the original ten artists, Cope worked in the Utah Public Works of Art Project under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, focusing on early Nati...
Canvas, Oil
$18,500
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker
By Otis Oldfield
Located in New York, NY
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker. Signed “Otis Oldfield” lower left. 14 x 12 inches.
Canvas, Oil
California Mid 20th-Century WPA Modernism American Scene SF Coit Tower Artist
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
Beginning in 1947, he also taught art courses at the California Labor School, including printmaking.
Canvas, Oil, Board
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coit Tower California SF
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
The family then settled in San Francisco, and he taught at the California School of Fine Arts and from 1939 to 1963, was professor of art at Stanford University.
Oil, Board
'Tehuantepec Woman', WPA, California, Oaxaca, Rivera, GGIE, ASL, NY MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sottosanti' for Angelo Anthony Sottosanti (American, 1917-2004) and dated 1941. A dramatic Modernist study of a Tehuantepec woman from Oaxaca shown wearing the ...
Paper, Gouache
'Pedro, Pineapple Seller', WPA, California, Orozco, Rivera, MMA, GGIE, ASL, NY
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Sottosanti' for Angelo Anthony Sottosanti (American, 1917-2004); additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Pedro of Tehuan Tepee, Mexico' and painted circa 1940. ...
Paper, Gouache
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Donal Hord WPA San Diego California Montezuma Aztec Bronze Sculpture Art
By Donal Hord
Located in San Diego, CA
Fantastic original bronze sculpture by California sculptor/artist Donal Hord and dates from the 1930's. Titled "Aztec" and is signed on the lower edge. Listed in the Donal Hord book....
Bronze
Unavailable
H 24.75 in W 28.25 in D 1.25 in
"Memory of an Ancient City" Semi-Abstract Lithograph by Beckford Young
Located in Pasadena, CA
Beckford Young spoke at length about the California WPA art programs and his role in them in an interview with Mary McChesney, 19 May 1965, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Inst...
Lithograph
Negro — California WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1937, color lithograph, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil; initialed in the stone, lower right. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream w...
Lithograph
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H 25.5 in W 30.5 in D 2 in
Oil on Canvas California Impressionist WPA Horatio Nelson Poole 1930 Mendocino
Located in Portland, OR
An important California Impressionist/WPA oil on canvas painting by the celebrated artist Horatio Nelson Poole (1885-1949), titled "The Green Scollop", 1930. The painting depicting t...
Canvas, Oil
"On the Heights, " California Equine WPA Modernist Watercolor
By Millard Sheets
Located in New York, NY
Millard Sheets (1907 - 1989) On the Heights Gouache on paper 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Signed lower right: Millard Sheets Provenance: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles Estate of...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
VISIONS OF WHAT USED TO BE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hebert also worked under the California WPA / Federal Art Project in the late 30's.
Etching, Aquatint
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H 16 in W 22 in D 0.13 in
'Abstract Landscape', California WPA, Corcoran, Whitney, AIC, GGIE, SFAA, LACMA
By Ellwood Graham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Graham' for Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007) and painted circa 1985; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'View Study'. This early California Modernist ...
Masonite, Oil
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H 11 in W 14 in
'Burlingame, San Mateo', Post-Impressionist California oil landscape, WPA artist
By Galen Russell Wolf
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Galen Russell Wolf (American, 1889-1974), circa 1955, and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. A bright and fresh, California landscape showing an old wood...
Oil, Board
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H 29.25 in W 23.25 in
Floral Painting Listed WPA Woman California Artist Flower Gouache Painting
By Dorr Bothwell
Located in Surfside, FL
She was born in San Francisco, California. She began her art career at the California School of Fine Arts in 1921, under the tutelage of Gottardo Piazzoni and Rudolph Schaeffer.
Watercolor, Gouache
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H 23.5 in W 21.75 in
DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals
By Anton Refregier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANTON REFREGIER (1905 – 1979) DISCOVERY OF GOLD, 1949. Color serigraph. Signed and numbered in pencil, edition of 90. Image 23 ¼ x 21 ¾" Large sheet, 29 3/4 x 25 ¼”. Printed title...
Screen
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H 11.75 in W 16 in D 0.13 in
'California Beach Scene', Munich, Berkeley, CCAC, GGIE, SFAA, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
He first lived in Michigan before moving to California where, settling in Berkeley, he attended the California College of the Arts and Crafts.
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Foam Board
WPA California Landscape Mural
Located in Treasure Island, CA
Maurice Del Mue, untitled scene of Pyramid Peak in the Sierra Mountains, oil on canvas, 1937, 80 x 80 inches, recently cleaned and conserved, unframed.
Maurice Del Mue, 1875-1...
Canvas
$21,000Sale Price|25% Off
H 81 in W 56 in D 2 in
"Youths Bathing in the Bay of Algiers, " Monumental Painting by Ortega, 1934
By José Ortega
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in tones of turquoise, Mediterranean blue, aqua, sky blue and a range of rich browns, tans and grays, this view of three young men bathing in the bay of Algiers i...
Paint
'Loop Alley' — Modernist Chicago Cityscape, WPA
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Loop Alley (Chicago)', color woodcut, edition c. 25, c. 1935. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove Japan pa...
Woodcut
$9,750
H 40 in W 32 in D 2 in
Stunning Art Deco Young Woman Portrait Framed Signed Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Exquisite antique portrait painting of a young fashionable woman. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 31H by 24L.
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 20 in W 26 in D 0.5 in
"Loading the Wagon", Important Regional Scene Ptg, Thomas Hart Benton Colleague
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of American Scene painting, depicting a group of four laborers loading the harvest onto a wagon amidst the fields, has the energy and dynamic of Thomas Hart Bent...
Paint
$450,000
H 28 in W 24 in
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...
Oil, Egg Tempera, Board
$15,000
H 25 in W 28 in
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 (1910-1953) "Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office 19 ½ x 22 ½ inches Oil on B...
Oil, Board
$2,550
H 9.44 in W 11.88 in
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism, Signed Lithograph
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thomas Hart Benton, 'Goin' Home', lithograph, 1937, edition 250, Fath 14. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white, wove pape...
Lithograph
'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on off-white, wove paper, w...
Lithograph
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Potter, 'Modern Music' also Twilight Melodies', linocut, c. 1935, from the posthumous edition of 20, printed in 1977, authorized by the artist’s widow. Estate authenticated in...
Linocut
$1,800
H 14.5 in W 19.13 in
'A Wind Is Rising and the Rivers Flow' — Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow', color lithograph, 1945, edition 40, Fine and Looney 242. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 40' in pencil. A fine ...
Lithograph
'Pipe and Brawn' — WPA Era American Realism
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Pipe and Brawn,' 1937, lithograph, edition 40. Signed and annotated 'Ed/40' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margin...
Lithograph
$550,000
H 30 in W 21 in
The Oarsman, Original Collier's Magazine Cover Illustration
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for Collier's Magazine, published June 24, 1916. The image features a handsome young blond man holding oars Exhibited: Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia,...
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
$2,600
H 12 in W 15 in
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
Pencil
$60,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 67 in W 47 in
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896 - 1979) Motion (Mile Rocks Lighthouse), San Francisco, 1939 Oil and tempera on board 60 x 40 inches Signed lower left Provenance: The artist Californi...
Canvas, Oil, Tempera
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Min...
Ink
$1,600
H 7.44 in W 5.94 in
'Food Not Cannon' — WPA Modernist Work of Social Conscience
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...
Etching