Wpa Art

Transporting tropical watercolor painting on paper with buildings, mountains, sunny sky and a lone figure, executed with bold colors and expert technique by W P A artist Avery Johnso...

Britton was a significant figure in American modern art, trained under Grant Wood and later active as a muralist during the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

His work was exhibited posthumously in New York City WPA Art in 1977 at the Parson's School of Design, New York City.

Signed lower right, 'Guy Maccoy' (American, 1904-1981), dated 1941 and titled, lower left, 'Vermont Quarry'. Serigrapher, muralist and teacher, Guy Maccoy began his art studies at ...

In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project of the New York City WPA. He was assigned to the Graphic Art Project and the Easel Project at Harlem Art Center.

Messick later taught at both the Denver Art School and Santa Fe Art School and served as Colorado State Supervisor of the WPA Art Program during World War II, placing him among the i...

Presented in a clean black frame with an elegant cream mat, this authentic piece of 20th-century history is a rare, significant find for collectors of WPA art, aviation and rail memo...

Garth was a giant among artists in San Francisco for many years, and served as Mural Director for the WPA Art Project there in the 1930s. He painted murals for the Sir Francis Drake ...

Image size: 6"H x 8.25"W Frame: 9.5"H x 11.25"W x 2.25"D (velvet liner has age toning) Casady was a painter and muralist and served as Chairman, Oklahoma C...

They continue to be highly collectible, especially among those who want both WPA and boxing venue art pieces. Arthur Smith's preoccupation for the colorful world of boxing is obvious...

They continue to be highly collectible, especially among those who want both WPA and boxing venue art pieces. Arthur Smith's preoccupation for the colorful world of boxing is obvious...

They continue to be highly collectible, especially among those who want both WPA and boxing venue art pieces. Arthur Smith's preoccupation for the colorful world of boxing is obvious...

Helen Malta (born 1912) worked in New York City in the 1930s, teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working on the New York branch of the WPA graphics division.

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

He exhibited in group shows at the Babcock Gallery, New York City; Albany Museum, Albany New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Philadelphia Museum, P.A.; Butler Ar...

In 1936, Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project of the New York City WPA. He was assigned to the Graphic Arts Project and the Easel Project at Harlem Art Center.

After the Depression, he was also the recipient of several Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project commissions under the New Deal, including a bas-relief called Shipp...

Margolis enjoyed evenings at the Savoy Ballroom with abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning,[3] and helped Diego Rivera install his murals at Rockefeller Center.[2] He was a member...

During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor.

Ulreich attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he studied under Mademoiselle F.

A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period - Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and dated upper right

They continue to be highly collectible, especially among those who want both WPA and boxing venue art pieces. Arthur Smith's preoccupation for the colorful world of boxing is obvious...

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

Beautiful WPA era NYC subway scene by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913).

- Framed Dimensions: 24 x 28 Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum among others - She was a WPA artist

During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

Stone (1902 - 1984) Two Figures, 1980 Mixed media on paper Sight 52 x 42 inches Signed and dated lower right Louis King Stone was born in Findlay, Ohio in 1902 and received formal a...

Image size 11 x 8 3/4 inches; sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches. Collection: Art Institute of Chicago One of a series of four color woodcuts entitled 'Chicago Moods In Color', cre...

A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Art School, he taught painting at John Herron Art School, Cooper Union, and Columbia University.

"Strike" American Scene Social Realism 1930s WPA Modern Industrial Landscape Karl Metzler (1909-1995) "Strike" 26 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches Oil and gesso on masonite, c. 1930 Signed and t...

Created for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York. Matted to museum standards, unframed.

Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition. Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Yenta gossips in the kitchen peeling. hum...

A vibrant watercolor landscape by this American Modernist who first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was commissioned to paint murals by the Works Project Association (WPA...

After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting.

Created for the New York City Works Progress Administration (WPA). Collection: National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Claire Millman Mahl Moore (1910-1988) was married twice an...

C., the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the Bezalel Art Museum in Jerusalem.

In 1951 and 1952, he taught at the Art Students League in New York and, in 1953, the John Herron Art Institute.

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

During the the 1930's, Geller was an active participant in the Federal Art Project (WPA) in Illinois and his large-scale murals and stained glass windows may be found in Chicago and ...

Later in the 1930's, he worked as a painter and muralist on the Federal Art Project of the WPA, Works Progress Administration, the Government-sponsored effort to create work for arti...

Georgina Klitgaard New Hampshire Winter Signed lower right Oil on canvas 38 x 28 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign arti...

As an authentic WPA-era watercolor, this piece is especially appealing to collectors of American Modernism, industrial landscapes, and Western art history.

Albert Heckman Woodstock Landscape Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art...

In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s.

Charming folk depiction of Pelham Bay Park.

Albert Heckman Woodstock Landscape Oil on board 8 x 10 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art ...

Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw R...

Signed lower right “GEO M. SMITH/1946.” Measures a monumental 54 1/4 inches x 42 1/4 inches framed. Canvas measures 48 x 36 inches. Excellent condition. Provenance: From a Midwes...

He was included in the MoMA show Murals by American painters and photographers 1932, along with Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Bernice Abbott, George Biddle, Ernst Fiene and many other WPA...

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

Stull. BIO An art director for Norcross Greeting Cards, De Forest Stull was also a painter and WPA muralist whose mural work was done for Radio City Music Hall.

She continued her studies under Raphael Soyer holding a showing of her earliest paintings in the lobby of Greenwich Village's Eighth Street Playhouse. After graduating from art schoo...

He is listed in Who Was Who in American Art and other art reference books.

As a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she received a scholarship to work at the Art Students League of New York and was active in the WPA.

The WPA and Early Recognition In the mid-1930s, Hebald joined the WPA Federal Art Project — the same monumental government arts program that shaped the careers of Jackson Pollock, M...

Krevoruck completed four years of college before the Second World War and taught art. In the late 1930s, when he was only 20 years old, Krevoruck was employed by the WPA art programme.

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...