$1,268Sale Price|57% Off
H 18 in W 19.5 in D 1.5 in
1940s WPA Watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell, Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
American Modern art, WPA works, and industrial landscapes. Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) was a
Watercolor
'Loop Alley' — Modernist Chicago Cityscape, WPA
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
exhibition Beyond the Surface: WPA Works of Charles Turzak, presented at the Figge Art Museum from November
Woodcut
'The Workers (No. 1)' — 1930s WPA Modernist Woodcut
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
the artist for the Federal Art Project, Chicago Works Progress Administration (WPA). Image size 6 3/8
Woodcut
'The Workers (No. 2)' — 1930s WPA Modernist Woodcut
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Art Project, Chicago Works Progress Administration (WPA). Image size 5 15/16 x 4 1/2 inches (152 x
Woodcut
$895
H 18 in W 15 in D 2 in
Antique American WPA Figurative Pastel Drawing
By Charles William Ward
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charles William Ward. Pastel on paper. Gorgeously framed in an antique frame.. Signed lower right
Parchment Paper, Pastel, Paper
$2,600
H 11.07 in W 9 in
'La Salle and Washington Street (Chicago, Illinois)' — WPA American Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'La Salle and Washington Street (Chicago, Illinois)', woodcut, c. 1935, edition c
Woodcut
$4,500
H 31 in W 25 in D 1.38 in
Charles Schlein New York Subject Oil on Board
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Charles returned to New York during the Depression and taught art for the WPA. Charles moved to Los
Oil, Board
$4,950Sale Price|40% Off
H 26 in W 35.5 in D 0.5 in
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses & Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era. The piece captures
Watercolor
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H 19 in W 16 in D 2 in
Abstract with Guitar 1938 New Hope Lambertville Ramstonev WPA American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Abstract with Guitar 1938 New Hope Lambertville Ramstonev WPA American Modernism. 14 x 11 Oil on
Oil, Board
Amusement Pier (WPA era Social Realist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
the Depression and taught art for the WPA. Charles moved to Los Angeles in 1938 when he got a job
Watercolor, Rag Paper
'North Bank of the Chicago River' — WPA Graphic Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Administration (WPA) depression-era public art projects designed to employ out-of-work artists. Turzak painted
Woodcut
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H 21 in W 21 in D 0.75 in
Untitled (Vintage 1930s Modernist WPA Era Line Drawing of Kansas City)
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage circa 1935 WPA era Line Drawing of the Kansas City Skyline with buildings and road by
Graphite
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H 14 in W 15.5 in
1950s Landscape Study, Mixed Media Drawing WPA Era Street Scene American Realist
By Charles Silberman
Located in Surfside, FL
14x15.5 framed , 3x4.75 sight size Miniature Landscape Study by American artist, CHARLES SILBERMAN
Ink, Mixed Media, Pen, Pencil
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H 10.25 in W 8.25 in D 0.75 in
Kansas City Skyline, 1930s WPA Era Modernist Line Drawing, Black & White, Framed
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Modernist, 1930s WPA era cityscape of the Kansas City Skyline by Charles Bunnell (1897-1968
Graphite
Library of Antique Leatherbound Books
Located in Brønshøj, DK
This collection consists of 400 antique decorative books, mainly dating from 1850–1950, with most published before 1920. The books are bound in leather, many with fine gold leaf embo...
Gold Leaf
$696 / item
H 7.4 in W 1.8 in D 7.7 in
Gae Aulenti & Piero Castiglioni 'Minibox' Table Lamp in Green for Stilnovo
By Stilnovo, Gae Aulenti
Located in Glendale, CA
Gae Aulenti & Piero Castiglioni 'Minibox' table lamp in green for Stilnovo Founded in 1946 in Milan, Stilnovo was one of the most innovative lighting companies in Italy during the M...
Metal
$18,742Sale Price|37% Off
H 28.25 in W 32.25 in D 1.75 in
Charles Ragland Bunnell 1928–29 Manitou Colorado Landscape Oil on Canvas
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
This original oil on canvas by acclaimed Colorado modernist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Manitou, Colorado with Pikes Peak View, was created circa 1928–1929. The paint...
Oil
$891
H 15.44 in W 10.36 in D 0.04 in
Authentic Plum Garden at Kamata名所江戸百景-publisher大江广木版社版Ōe Hiroki-carver-ItōSusumu
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in London, GB
From the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei 名所江戸百景), the seals of the artist, publisher, and the carver are shown clear and with the highest quality...
Ink, Handmade Paper
$3,750Sale Price|31% Off
H 15.5 in W 19.25 in D 1.25 in
1941 Impressionist Pikes Peak by Charles Bunnell, Autumn Colorado Landscape
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional 1941 egg tempera landscape by renowned Colorado modernist Charles Bunnell (1897–1968) captures the grandeur of the Front Range in peak autumn color. A snow-capped Pi...
Tempera
$235,000
H 29.63 in W 24.44 in
Pablo Picasso, "Grand Tête" original linocut in colors, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Grand Tête, Portrait of Jacqueline with sleek hair Color linocut printed in beige, yellow, red, blue, and black on cream wove paper with Arches watermark Numbered 14/50 from the edit...
Linocut
$3,000Sale Price|61% Off
H 25.5 in W 37.5 in D 1.5 in
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
By Frederick Shane
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache on archival paper painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic moun...
Gouache
$3,400Sale Price|60% Off
H 19.5 in W 23.5 in D 2 in
1920s Colorado Western Landscape Oil Painting, Blue Sky, Buttes, & Mountain Art
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1926 signed oil painting by 20th cenutry artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) beautifully captures the expansive Colorado prairie landscape. Created while Bunnell...
Oil, Board
$4,185
H 19.25 in W 22 in D 1.75 in
Lithograph of American rural life timeless with architecture monochrome
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in London, GB
A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...
Lithograph
$12,500
H 45 in W 29 in D 2.5 in
"Pipe Fitters", 1951 Paean to the Working Man by Gere, Wisconsin Painter
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although this painting dates to 1951, a few years after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) period ended in the 1940s, this tight composition of two pipe fitters doing their work...
Paint
'Plowing It Under' — WPA Era American Regionalism
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
$385
H 14 in W 18 in D 0.13 in
WPA Era, Industrial Scene Steel Mill by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic 1930s, WPA era industrial scene watercolor of a steel mill and factory workers by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful example of early Twentieth Cent...
Watercolor, Paper
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballat...
Tempera
$5,500
H 16 in W 15 in
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) Subway Scene, 1930s 8 x 9 inches Ink and wash on paper Singed lower ...
Paper, Ink, Gouache
$5,000
H 48 in W 28 in D 2 in
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Telephone Pole Worker 38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches Oil on paper c. 1930s Signed lowe...
Paper, Gouache
$4,185
H 19 in W 21.5 in D 1.5 in
Lithograph of American rural life timeless and romantic countryside monochrome
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in London, GB
A fine impression with good margins published by Associated American Artists.
Lithograph
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.
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