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'Food Not Cannon' — rare WPA modernist work of Social Conscience
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
WPA. He was assigned to the Graphic Arts Project and the Easel Project at Harlem Art Center. He also
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
William S. SchwartzChicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work, c. 1930
H 14.25 in W 16.25 in D 0.1 in
"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
York
Private Collection, New York
Bonhams, American Art Online, August 23, 2023, Lot 30
New-York born
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large George Aarons Terracotta Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
works are at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel; Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Musée de St
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Terracotta
Art Deco Movie Set 20th Century American Modernism Hollywood WPA Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Movie Set 20th Century American Modernism Hollywood WPA Social Realism
Arthur Rosenman
Category
1930s Art Deco Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Monotype Print Painting Garden Scene Table Chair Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration (WPA) during the depression, Solman met and worked with and befriended many great artists, like
Category
20th Century Modern More Art
Materials
Monotype
Plaster Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist Peace Swords to Ploughshares
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
Baltimore Hebrew Congregational Building (1956).
His works are at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
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
"Road Builder" 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Bronze WPA Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Americana, Lawyer in Court, Politician, Gouache Painting WPA Art William Gropper
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
-educated man, was unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Americana Farmer and Wife, Gouache Painting WPA Art William Gropper Woodchopper
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as a seamstress
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
participate in the WPA Federal Art Project at its inception.
1896 Born on May 1 in Poland
1907 Emigrates to
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit William Meyerowitz WPA Art
By William Meyerowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
center of this life for the next 70 years: music and art. Between 1912 and 1916, William Meyerowitz
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Wrestlers" 1936 Olympic Porcelain Gay Mid 20th Century Art Deco WPA Modern LGBT
By Herend
Located in New York, NY
"Wrestlers" 1936 Olympic Porcelain Gay Mid 20th Century Art Deco WPA Modern LGBT
Hungarian
Category
1930s Modern Nude Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration (WPA) during the depression, Solman met and worked with and befriended many great artists, like
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
of the Fine Arts.
After serving in World War I, Ulreich moved to New York and worked as a WPA
Category
1950s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting (WPA Era) Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
invited to participate in the WPA Federal Art Project at its inception.
1896 Born on May 1 in Poland
1907
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Archway' — 1930s American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Harlem Art Center. He also taught at P.S. 94 and Bronx House in New York City.
Bibel’s WPA program ended
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
San Francisco Cable Car WPA Artist Adolf Dehn Modernist Art Gouache Oil Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration, WPA in this period. Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
(born 1912) worked in New York City in the 1930s, teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working on the
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daydream (WPA Era Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in New Orleans, LA
that WPA period feel. A pensive painting sure to bring you peace. With frame it measures 33" x 27
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Clown' — 1930s American Expressionism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
School.
In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project of the New York City WPA. He
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Unemployed Marchers — 1930s Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
to 1 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Created while Bibel worked in the New York City WPA (Works
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Unique Painting By Albert Pels WPA Artist!
By Albert Pels
Located in Larchmont, NY
dimensions: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.
Albert Pels was an art educator and painter of figures, genre scenes, urban
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Screenprint Serigraph Art Print WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Children Playing
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His work was strongly influenced by Max
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Impressionist Oil Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work
Philip Krevoruck was born January 26, 1919 in Fitchburg
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 12.6 in W 11.03 in D 0.99 in
"Nude, " Arnold Blanch, Woodstock School, WPA, Figurative
By Arnold Blanch
Located in New York, NY
. He was also a highly respected teacher, lecturer and visiting critic and was a spokesman for the art
Category
1930s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Miami, FL
. - Framed Dimensions: 24 x 28
Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum among
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Abstract Boats' — 1930s American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
WPA. He was assigned to the Graphic Arts Project and the Easel Project at Harlem Art Center. He also
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
20th Century Surrealist Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work
Philip Krevoruck
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 25.5 in W 30 in D 1 in
Sephardic Jew Fez Hat Jewish Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Art
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Yenta gossips in the kitchen peeling. humorous Yiddish art
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Two Figures, " Louis Stone, Abstract, American WPA Modernism
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
art. Stone exhibited regularly with the Independents and worked to establish the Cooperative Painting
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
lithograph showing a woman slumped over her work in a WPA sewing room, and Snow Clearing (1933), showing men
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color
'Oregon Coast', Art Institute of Chicago, AIC, Works Project Association, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
who first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was commissioned to paint murals by the Works
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'South-Western Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, WPA, Odessa
By Todros Geller
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
. During the the 1930's, Geller was an active participant in the Federal Art Project (WPA) in Illinois and
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
H 14.5 in W 17.5 in D 0.13 in
Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Man on First" James Chapin, Baseball Sports, Figurative WPA, American Scene
Located in New York, NY
. Wigmore Fine Art Co., New York
William L. Gladstone Collection
Exhibited:
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D'Paris WPA Female Equestrienne
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Pleasant Work (Greenhouse)
By Donald S. Vogel
Located in Dallas, TX
influence the direction of his work. He saw art that dealt with the effects of atmosphere and light. The
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Sailing' — 1930s Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
condition. Scarce.
Created for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
modern art are the works of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Rouault. 1932-33 Tschacbasov moves for a short time
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Etching Passover Seder Scene WPA Artist
By Philip Reisman
Located in Surfside, FL
painter and muralist on the Federal Art Project of
the WPA, Works Progress Administration, the Government
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
painted floral designs on vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tugboat at Dock, " Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, New York
Shannon's, Summer Sale Fine Art Auction, June 25
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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
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