Wpa Art

Stunningly executed in deep tones of cobalt blue, burnt sienna, oxblood and jet black, this depiction of a partially nude male youth standing at an open window at sunset was painted ...

Great WPA period painting featuring visitors to the zoo with aviaries in the background, possibly NYC. Some of the visitors have a very Botero feel. Oil on canvas, unframed measuring...

In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S.

In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S.

In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S.

In the mid 30's, like many another struggling artist, XJB worked on the WPA Art Project. One of the murals he worked on is in the U.S.

Like so many WPA sculptures from the 1930s and 40s which valorized and celebrated the American worker, this classic wall-mounted work depicts a lumberjack at rest, his ax at his feet...

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....

Entirely charming and whimsical, the anonymous sculptor of "Pan with Rabbit" has created a masterful portrait of a rotund Pan beguiling a woodland rabbit. Carved from a cylinder of r...

These highly collectible pieces translate her bold, dynamic paintings into wearable art, often featuring dynamic color blocks and her distinct linework.Bauhaus-Inspired Pedagogy: Whe...

Exhibited at the Thirteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1933, this large WPA-influenced painting by Arthur D.

Unique and lovely, this 1930s ceramic sculpture depicts a dancing female figure, her long robe swirling around her as she moves through space, her head looking down and her hands at ...

An extraordinary confluence of George Platt Lynes, Jared French and a renowned WPA mural with hints of homoeroticism can be seen in this photograph by Lynes in 1939, taken as French ...

This highly important study -- entitled "Calvarymen Crossing a River" -- was made for the 1939 WPA mural by Jared French installed in the main Richmond post office, one of his first ...

Extraordinary artistically and historically, this oil painting by WPA muralist Sterling Smeltzer captures the dramatic moment when Marian Anderson sang before an enormous crowd in fr...

Because Joseph Mortimer Lichtenauer is best known for his public murals, it's not surprising that this easel painting -- with its frieze-like array of nude and Classically dressed fi...

A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting depicts a young man in a white t-shirt walking a group of cows down a country lane with p...

He was active in the Society for Sanity in Art -- a group now forgotten -- that was actively opposed to all forms of modern art, including Cubism and Surrealism.

Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this mural study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts. Until it...

The painter, Paul Ulen, was trained in England, in the 1920s, later returning to Ohio to win several prizes at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the 1920s and 1930s. The oil on canvas p...

This rare and important pairing of plaster maquette and bronze panel, sculpted in preparation for a WPA bas relief at the post office in Loudonville, Ohio, was created by Rudolf Henn...

Turner focused largely on the human figure, and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Stylized and reductive, this beautiful 1930s-vintage ceramic sculpture depicts a sitting mother holding her child very close, her legs crossed and her arms enfolding the baby. The wa...

The artist studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Mint Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Art, and the Washington Watercolor Club.

Oil on canvas, estate sigend on the reverse, presented in a simple frame measuring 21.375" x 24.375" overall. William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where h...

An evocative and atmospheric example of WPA mural painting, this large study in watercolor and crayon depicts a stagecoach being loaded with mail and passengers for the journey from ...

This remarkable -- perhaps unique -- woodblock print depicts a group of five nude male workers laying railroad track, their strong, muscled figures interlaced as they strive to move ...

A classic example of WPA-period mural painting, this study was painted by Ralf Henricksen in the 1930s, probably for the U.S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, north of Chicago....

Although best known today for his abstract sculptures, many at display at the Howard Whalen Sculpture Garden in Sierra Madre, California, the artist started his career in the WPA era...

This remarkable ceramic sculpture, probably the best work of Elisabeth Andersen Seaver, one of the famous Cleveland School ceramicists -- depicts an Indian chief with full feather he...

Winters was an integral part of the Chicago art scene in the 1930s and 1940s, and was the administrator for the WPA Illinois Art Project for several years.

Although not signed, this brilliant scene of a nude black male figure, marvelling at a vision of angels in the heaven from his position on the ground below, is reminiscent of the ear...

It was Dodge who encouraged Sterne to come to Provincetown in 1915, and the painter used the village/artists colony as his subject on many occasions; one of his Provincetown seascape...

Full of energy and vivid color, this atmospheric and charming scene of a small-town carnival, complete with a barker, boys with balloons, a blue tent in the foreground and a sign ann...

This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration and Naturalization Center in Los Angeles, depicts five Pueblo Indians in the foreg...

Handsome and important, this glazed ceramic sculpture of a standing half-nude male, dressed in a pair of pants held up by a rope for a belt, was sculpted by Brents Carlton in the 193...

Although Walker Evans is world-renowned for his Depression-era photographs of ordinary men and women across America, many of them taken while serving as “information specialist” in t...

In an era when the circus provided an affordable and exotic form of entertainment for the Everyman, this vivid painting, glowing with the colors of red clay, slate and dusty pink, ca...

In 1932, he joined the WPA and created numerous works in this stylization.

This print depicts a nude Adam and Eve in a small island of peace and plenty, surrounded by the ravages and storms of World War II. The placid scene at the center, full of innocence ...

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.

Before developing his iconic style, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project and studied under artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, who influenced Pollock’s signature experi...

His work is held in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Documented fellow exhibitors and contemporaries: Kotin was chosen by his fellow artists for the 1951 Ninth Stre...

Drewes also served as Director of the Graphic Art Project of the WPA in New York and was a founding member of the influential American Abstract Artists (AAA) group.

The WPA and Wartime Service Returning to the United States during the Depression, Kotin worked as an easel painter for the WPA Federal Art Project.

In 1926, Lockwood settled in Taos, New Mexico, where he became closely associated with the Taos art community and the Taos Society of Artists. He also worked on Federal Art Project a...

Academically, Maresca has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and at City University of New York, and has authored a book—WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the...

Schanker, a prominent figure of the 1930s Public Works of Art Project and WPA artists, later became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group.

From 1934 to 1940, Refregier, living in New York City, worked on various WPA Federal Art Projects* as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor.

During the late 1930s, the artist worked for the WPA Federal Art Project, both as a teacher and in its easel division.

Created during a pivotal period in American Surrealism, the composition possesses a cinematic and almost metaphysical atmosphere, making it a compelling focal point for sophisticated...

With the WPA, you got together whether it was the [Artists'] Union or the [American Artists'] Congress or whether it was a bar. . . and you talked about art, and you heard about impo...

Just four years earlier, the Bernheim Jeune gallery had a group exhibit for some of the world’s most well-known artists including Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Matisse, Vlaminck, Modigli...

Cunningham was both a revered teacher at both Mills College and UC Berkeley as well as a muralist and easel painter for the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1959, the Cunninghams founded ...

With the WPA, you got together whether it was the [Artists'] Union or the [American Artists'] Congress or whether it was a bar. . . and you talked about art, and you heard about impo...

During the Depression, in 1929 Berkman moved to New York City where he was appointed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to oversee the Federal Art Project’s Contemporary Art ...

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...

During the Depression, in 1929 Berkman moved to New York City where he was appointed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to oversee the Federal Art Project’s Contemporary Art ...

During the Depression, in 1929 Berkman moved to New York City where he was appointed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to oversee the Federal Art Project’s Contemporary Art ...

In 1938, her figurines of cowboys, Indians and soldiers toured California as part of the WPA Federal Art Project. Ella Buchanan went to school in Le Mars and at the Betty Steward In...