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New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins

New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins

By Joseph Wolins

Located in Surfside, FL

Subject: American Family Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork. Joseph Wo...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Neighbors

Neighbors

By Norman Barr

Located in Los Angeles, CA

During his time with the WPA, Barr contributed to both the mural and easel divisions of the Federal Art Project from 1934 to 1943.

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen

"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen

By Lionel S. Reiss

Located in New York, NY

Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988) Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943 Watercolor on paper Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Las ...

Category

1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles

Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles

By Alexander Raymond Katz

Located in Surfside, FL

Katz received much acclaim for his murals at the Century of Progress World's Fair and for other WPA projects during the 1930s. His murals are at the Butler Institute of American Art;...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism
FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism

By Daniel Ralph Celentano

Located in New York, NY

He enjoyed an active career, exhibiting at all the major museums as an accomplished American Scene painter during the WPA and WWII era. His first one-man show was held in 1939 at th...

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El
'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El

'Modern Music' — WPA Modernism, New York City El

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

ABOUT THIS WORK Created for the WPA (Works Progress Administration), impressions of this work are held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonia...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Jewish Family Interior Scene (The Shadchan) Rare Judaica Oil Painting WPA artist
Jewish Family Interior Scene (The Shadchan) Rare Judaica Oil Painting WPA artist

Jewish Family Interior Scene (The Shadchan) Rare Judaica Oil Painting WPA artist

By Albert Abramovitz

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract and Surrealist Contributors While Social Realism dominated, some Jewish artists used the WPA to push toward abstraction: Ilya Bolotowsky (1907–1981): A pioneer of abstract ...

Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA

Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA

By Ben-Zion Weinman

Located in Surfside, FL

Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era

By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano

Located in Surfside, FL

In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA period. notably Chaim Gross, Ben Shahn, Isaac and M...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA Signed Serigraph, 1938
'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA Signed Serigraph, 1938

'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA Signed Serigraph, 1938

By Leon Bibel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

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.

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist
Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist

Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist

By John Groth

Located in Surfside, FL

John August Groth (American, 1908-1988) "Wrestling Match," Watercolor painting, hand signed upper right and inscribed upper left, "Las Palmas Canary Islands Lucha Canary Wrestling...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era

By Theresa Berney Loew

Located in Surfside, FL

Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole. Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew. Birth place: Baltimore artist, blo...

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, sheet measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. No da...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no ...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 9.5 x 12 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 10 x 15 inches. Signed lower left. Good condition with no d...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures, image measures 7 x 9.5 inches on a sheet measuring 11 x 15...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...

Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

"May Day" Social Realism WPA American Modern NYC Scene Mid 20th Century
"May Day" Social Realism WPA American Modern NYC Scene Mid 20th Century

"May Day" Social Realism WPA American Modern NYC Scene Mid 20th Century

By Mortimer Borne

Located in New York, NY

His artwork is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery of Art, and The Victoria and Albert M...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Tenant Farmers' — Rare WPA Modernist Signed Wood Engraving
'Tenant Farmers' — Rare WPA Modernist Signed Wood Engraving

'Tenant Farmers' — Rare WPA Modernist Signed Wood Engraving

By Lou Barlow

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

His celebrated graphic works are represented in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Illinois State Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Antique American Modernist WPA Female Portrait Interior Exhibited Oil Painting
Antique American Modernist WPA Female Portrait Interior Exhibited Oil Painting

Antique American Modernist WPA Female Portrait Interior Exhibited Oil Painting

By Anatol Shulkin

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American modernist interior portrait oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Displayed in a period modernist frame. Exhibition provenance verso. Image size, 25"L ...

Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Sculpture Mid 20th Century Modern Non Objective Biomorphic Plaster WPA
Abstract Sculpture Mid 20th Century Modern Non Objective Biomorphic Plaster WPA

Abstract Sculpture Mid 20th Century Modern Non Objective Biomorphic Plaster WPA

By George L.K. Morris

Located in New York, NY

Morris created this abstract biomorphic nonobjective plaster sculpture during the WPA era of the 1930s / 40s. Monogrammed. Though George Lovett Kingsland Morris studied with realist...

Category

1930s American Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism

By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg

Located in New York, NY

His work may also be found at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Yale University Ar...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Brooklyn Street Scene Fruit Market WPA
Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Brooklyn Street Scene Fruit Market WPA

Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Brooklyn Street Scene Fruit Market WPA

By George Schwacha Jr

Located in Surfside, FL

Hand signed lower left corner Oil on masonite Dimensions: Frame H 18.25" x W 22.25". Sight H 11.25" x W 15.25 This is a great scene, vintage Americana. Possibly Crown Heights in Broo...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Tugboat in New York Harbor" Ernest Fiene, Modernist, WPA, Cloudy Horizon
"Tugboat in New York Harbor" Ernest Fiene, Modernist, WPA, Cloudy Horizon

"Tugboat in New York Harbor" Ernest Fiene, Modernist, WPA, Cloudy Horizon

By Ernest Fiene

Located in New York, NY

Ernest Fiene Tugboat in New York Harbor Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated...

Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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    WPA, or Work Projects Administration posters were a government program from 1936 to 1943 that supported the arts, health and educational programs. More than 2000 posters are said to exist. You can shop a collection of WPA posters from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
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    A WPA mural was a public work of art owing to a federal government program that came to fruition in the United States during the 1930s. WPA stands for Works Progress Administration. As part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the government-funded Works Progress Administration hired artists, illustrators, graphic designers and more to paint murals and create sculptures in schools, municipal buildings and elsewhere all over the United States — the effort, which included teaching art classes to children and budding artists, was put in place to build morale and offer employment during the Great Depression.