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 others - She was a WPA artist
Masonite, Oil
Unique Painting By Albert Pels WPA Artist!
By Albert Pels
Located in New York, NY
Pels was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, and the Society of Independent Artists. He was on the board of directors of the Arts Students Leagu...
Canvas, Oil
Liza Monk (1906-?) Brutalist nail sculpture of Hercules WPA artist based in CA
By Monk Designs
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Brutalist sculpture of Hercules by Liza Monk - Los Angeles based WPA artist. Heavy and welded pieces of metal/ nails.
Metal
'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
After serving in World War I, Ulreich moved to New York and worked as a WPA artist painting murals throughout the United States.
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
RARE WPA ARTIST ISAAC FRIEDLANDER Judaica Drawing 1946
By Isaac Friedlander
Located in Surfside, FL
A prolific etcher and wood engraver, his work emphasizes the imagery of his native Riga, the urban spectacle of New York during the Depression and the horror of the Holocaust. WPA Ar...
Charcoal, Pencil
Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Mills As one of the youngest and considered by many to be one of the most gifted WPA. Artists, Agnes Mills continued producing and innovating as a fine artist th...
Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor
Hand Colored Etching by WPA Artist Agnes Mills, 1982, Unique
Located in New York, NY
Titled lower right Inscribed "AP" bottom Signed and dated lower right As one of the youngest and considered by many to be one of the most gifted WPA Artists, Agnes Mills continued pr...
Etching
Judaica Etching Passover Seder Scene WPA Artist
By Philip Reisman
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Etching
Biblical Prophet Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Etching
WPA Artist woodblock print "Letter from overseas"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
References: Ellen G. Landau. Artists for Victory. New-Age Gallery. Exhibition.
Woodcut
Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled, 20th century Oil on wood panel 23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Framed: 29 x 25 x 1 1/4 in. Signed lower left: A Smith Arthur Smith is a listed Ameri...
Oil, Wood Panel
Nude Portrait by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Nude), 20th century Oil on board 11 1/8 x 14 in. Framed: 17 x 20 in. Signed lower right: A Smith Arthur Smith is a listed American pai...
Oil, Board
Circus Performers by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Circus Performers), 20th century Oil on board 21 x 18 7/8 in. Framed: 26 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. Signed lower right: A Smith Arthur Smith is a...
Oil, Board
$1,100
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals.
Paper, Charcoal
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
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.
Oil, Board
American Circus Scene by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Circus Figures), 20th century Oil on board 16 x 19 3/4 in. Framed: 20 x 24 in. Signed lower left: A Smith Arthur Smith is a listed Ame...
Oil, Board
$3,600
Samuel Brecher WPA Artist Mid Century Mod Modernist Oil Painting Circus Clowns
By Samuel Brecher
Located in Surfside, FL
He was one of the mid century Jewish WPA artists in New York along with Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Lee Krasner, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb,...
Canvas, Oil
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was ac...
Charcoal
Abstract Oil Painting Alan Tompkins Surrealist Cubism WPA Artist
By Alan Tompkins
Located in Surfside, FL
Alan Tompkins a prolific artist, he continued to paint into his 100th year and strongly desired one thing: to be remembered for his art.
Canvas, Oil
"Dockside with Seagull, " Important Painting by WPA Artist Stull
By John Deforest Stull
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in rich hues of cerulean, purple, deep pink and burnt siena, this abstracted view of a dockside scene was painted by John De Forest Stull. The artist shows many ...
Canvas
$4,500
Jewish Family Interior Scene (The Shadchan) Rare Judaica Oil Painting WPA artist
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
He was one of many jewish artists active in the WPA along with Ben Shahn (1898–1969): A leading Social Realist, Shahn is famous for his WPA murals and Farm Security Administration ph...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$6,500
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals.
Gouache, Board
$1,200
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
Around 1937-1939 Velonis wrote a pamphlet titled "Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process," which was distributed to art centers run by the WPA around t...
Screen
Jack Levine American Modernist Social Realist WPA Artist Aquatint Etching
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
In 1937, while with the WPA, Levine painted The Feast of Pure Reason, the work that catapulted him to fame.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Bronze Sculpture Abstract Figurative Woman Modernist Robert Laurent WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
The exhibit included such celebrated artists as sculptors Ibram Lassaw and Isamu Noguchi and painters Hyman Bloom, Jackson Pollock and Edward Hopper.
Bronze
American Abstract Expressionist Flowers Oil Painting Norman Carton WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Gouache, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Oil, Gouache, Board
Early Modernist River Landscape with Trees and Mountains WPA artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
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.
Canvas, Oil
$5,000
Seated Figure of a Man (Los Angeles California WPA Artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Pasquale Napolitano (1901-2001) Seted Figure of a Man, ca. 1935. Carved hardwood, measuring 22" h., 9.75" d., 14" w. Signed bottom right side. Natural wood shrinkage cracking on...
Wood
$1,250
DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals
By Anton Refregier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Printed title. Refregier was an artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) He did several murals in the San Francisco area.
Screen
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963).
Gouache
$850
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Lithograph Island Beach 1933 American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Lithograph
William Gropper WPA Artist Watercolor in Grisaille, circa 1932- “Uprooted”
By William Gropper
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This original watercolor by Depression Era New York artist William Gropper relates to two of Gropper's most important Depression Era prints: “Refugees” and “Uprooted.” Signed lower r...
Paint
Purim Holiday Scene Judaica Aquatint Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Etching
$1,800
Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana
By Abraham Harriton
Located in Surfside, FL
Harriton himself later become a teacher at the Academy, and, like many other artists during the Great Depression, received commissions from the Works Progress Administration WPA, dur...
Glass
$5,500
1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
Works for the resettlement administration (WPA) 1936. Oakland art gallery annual exhibition guest of honor 1937.
Canvas, Oil
Jack Levine Modernist WPA Artist Ashkenazi Rabbi Etching Judaica Jewish Print
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and denoted as Artist's Proof lower edge, titled and dated verso.
Paper, Etching
$7,500
Synagogue Jerusalem Israel French Judaica Oil Painting Bezalel School WPA Artist
By Jacques Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings.
Canvas, Oil
$4,500
Holocaust Memorial Oil Painting Judaica Rabbi Composed of Figures WPA Artist
By Maurice Newman
Located in Surfside, FL
After a brief stint as a retoucher at the White Studios in New York City, he returned to Boston to work as a commercial artist while attending the Vesper George School of Art, the Sc...
Oil
Jack Levine American Modernist Social Realist WPA Artist Lithograph Dinner Party
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
In 1937, while with the WPA, Levine painted The Feast of Pure Reason, the work that catapulted him to fame.
Paper, Color, Lithograph
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Oil, Board
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist.
Canvas, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New Deal programs including Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Ben Zion, Abraham Rattner and many more.
Oil, Board
Large George Aarons Terracotta Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
Two Figures (Mother and son) 9" x 17" terracotta sculpture, signed lower left mounted to wood panel, 15 1/2" x 23 1/2" George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russ...
Terracotta, Wood
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Many notable Jewish artists worked for the WPA amongst them Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Aaron Bohrod and many more.
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
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...
Paper, Watercolor
$6,500
Milton Hebald Mid Century Bronze Menorah Sculpture WPA Artist Modernist Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
In the mid-1930s, Milton went to work for the WPA, teaching and producing public art. Hebald had his first one-man show at the age of 20, in New York City.
Marble, Bronze
$3,200
Joseph Leboit New York WPA Artist - Color Lithograph, circa 1930. "Pennies"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
. $3200 Edition probably 25. Rare NYC WPA print. The image depicts boys diving into a fountain to collect coins.
Paper
$1,200
Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist. She was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976.
Paper, Watercolor
Joseph Wolins WPA Artist Dancing, Torah Modernist Judaica Cubist Oil Painting
By Joseph Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Wolins was one of the New York area artists associated with the WPA. Art Project, 1935-1941.
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle. Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief p...
Bronze
Untitled WPA artist "LYNCHING"
By Arthur Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An intense yet honest painting of a lynching scene of three men amongst a crowd within a wooded area. Arthur Smith painted for the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s. Smith ...
Oil
Unavailable
H 22.5 in W 26.5 in D 2.5 in
WPA artist Impressionistic Painting "In the Market Place"
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very Modern and Impressionistic painting of two figures standing together in a brightly colored market. Ashcan School style.
Oil, Canvas
Unavailable
H 8 in W 11 in D 1 in
Private Collection of Lerone Bennett Jr William Sylvester Carter WPA Artist
Located in Chicago, IL
He was an instructor at the South Side Community Arts Center of Chicago. While part of the WPA, he worked alongside Eldzier Cortor, Charles White, Earl Walker, Charles Davis and o...
Paint
WPA Ceramic Sculpture Balloon Man
By Louise Pain
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a whimsical figurine of a clown or carnie with balloons by Chicago WPA artist Louise Pain. It has an almost Weiner Werkstatte feel to it.
Ceramic
Vibrant Colors Still Life Watercolor
Located in Geneva, IL
Colorful watercolor on paper by Wisconsin listed WPA artist Robert Schellin (1910-1985). The painting is estate stamped on the back and shown in one of the photos.
Unavailable
H 21 in W 25 in D 1.5 in
"Showing Size of Circumference" Mid Century WPA Watercolor
By John Deforest Stull
Located in San Francisco, CA
Entitled Showing Size of Circumference, this mid 20th century watercolor on paper depicts an industrial scene where a large reel of rope is being measured. It is signed by the WPA ar...
Watercolor
"Mercat" by Martin Kane
Located in Charleston, SC
Martin Kane (1958 Cardiff, Wales emulates the WPA artists in realism and regionalism, especially the bulldozed post-industrial wilderness of Glasgow.
Canvas
WW11 "Double Talk" Print by Elise Donaldson
By Elise Donaldson
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a whimsical piece by WPA artist Elise Donaldson. Born in 1887, she lived in Chicago, studied at the Art Institute, then Paris and was employed by the WPA.
Unavailable
H 18 in W 12 in
Portrait of a Woman in Ink, Mid 20th Century
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-1950 ink on peach paper portrait of a woman is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Paper, Ink
Still Life Watercolor Fruit Ensemble
Located in Geneva, IL
Appealingly painted water of a still life of fruits on a plate. The artist is Wisconsin listed WPA artist Robert Schellin. 1910-1985.
Unavailable
H 12 in W 19 in
Reclining Female Nude 1930-50s Ink Wash Drawing
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-50s ink wash abstracted figure on paper is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Paper, Ink
Mid Century Sleeping Figure in Ink, Mid Century
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-1950 ink on peach paper figure of a woman in a chair is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Paper, Ink
Ink Wash Female Portrait 1930-50s Drawing
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-1950 ink on peach paper portrait of a woman is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Paper, Ink
Unavailable
H 15 in W 10 in
"Hal Nelson" 1930-50s Charcoal Man Cigar Smoking Portrait Drawing
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
Entitled "Hal Nelson" this 1930-50s charcoal portrait on paper is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Paper, Charcoal
THE RABBI Modernist judaica
By David Shapiro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
He has work in the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian among others. WPA artist. he showed at Associated American Artists Gallery in New York
Oil
Bent Female Nude 1930-50s Ink Wash
By Helen Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1930-50s ink wash abstracted figure on flesh-colored paper is by Washington D.C. artist Helen Rennie (1906-1989). Rennie was a WPA artist.
Ink
Passing By
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
A painter in the style of Social Realism and a WPA artist, he was noted for his compassionate portrayal of urban life and Depression subjects, along with portraits of artists, dancer...
Lithograph
20th Century; Judaica; Religion
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
A painter in the style of Social Realism and a WPA artist, he was noted for his compassionate portrayal of urban life and Depression subjects, along with portraits of artists, dancer...
Lithograph
Unavailable
H 17 in W 12 in D 0.01 in
Expressionist Nude in Ink, Circa 1950s
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1940-1950s ink and watercolor on paper figure is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Bento...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Unavailable
H 15 in W 11 in D 0.07 in
Expressionist Figure in Watercolor, Circa 1950s
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century watercolor on paper is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the ...
Paper, Watercolor
Unavailable
H 18 in W 10 in D 0.07 in
Expressionist Nude Figure in Ink, Circa 1950s
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century ink on paper nude drawing is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Benton a...
Paper, Ink
Unavailable
H 14 in W 17 in D 0.07 in
Expressionist Bay Area Landscape in Watercolor, Mid Century
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century watercolor on paper landscape is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Bent...
Paper, Watercolor
Unavailable
H 13 in W 10 in D 0.07 in
Expressionist Nude in Blue and Purple, Watercolor Painting, Circa 1950s
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century watercolor on paper with an abstract background is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied wit...
Paper, Watercolor
Unavailable
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.07 in
Male Figure Study, Ink on Paper, Mid 20th Century
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century ink on paper nude drawing of three male figures is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied wit...
Paper, Ink
Unavailable
H 29 in W 32 in D 3 in
WPA Still Life with NYC Street Scene Aaron Berkman Circa 1950-60.
By Aaron Berkman
Located in Hallowell, ME
He was in charge of a Seventeen (17) member WPA Artist Faculty. The school gave free tuition and had several hundred students.
Oil
Unavailable
H 18 in W 11 in D 1.5 in
Minimal Seated Male Nude 1950s Ink & Watercolor
By Richard Van Wingerden
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1950s ink and watercolor on paper male nude study is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart B...
Ink, Watercolor
The Gentleman from Cracow: Nude in the Moonlight
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
A painter in the style of Social Realism and a WPA artist, he was noted for his compassionate portrayal of urban life and Depression subjects, along with portraits of artists, dancer...
Lithograph
The Industry of War
By Vladimir Yoffe
Located in Minneapolis, MN
The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe interrogates the tension between war and peace, past and future in this abstractly inspired gouache artwork dating to the end of W...
Gouache, Illustration Board
Unavailable
H 37.5 in W 31.5 in D 4 in
Vintage American Modernist Painting, "Happy Birthday Gramma", 1939, Oil on Canvas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The painting immortalized his friend and fellow WPA artist, Fred Becker, receiving his "pink slip" from the New York City WPA in 1935.
Oil, Canvas
Unavailable
H 26 in W 19 in
"The Gentleman from Cracow, " Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
A painter in the style of Social Realism and a WPA artist, he was noted for his compassionate portrayal of urban life and Depression subjects, along with portraits of artists, dancer...
Lithograph
Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
By Helen Rennie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Helen Sewell Rennie (born in 1906) was a painter, graphic designer (New Yorker cartoons) and WPA artist who worked in Maine and Washington D.C.
John Marin's Studio- Cape Split, Maine
By Helen Rennie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Helen Sewell Rennie (born in 1906) was a painter, graphic designer (New Yorker cartoons) and WPA artist who worked in Maine and Washington D.C.
Leonard Sailing
By Helen Rennie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Helen Sewell Rennie (born in 1906) was a painter, graphic designer (New Yorker cartoons) and WPA artist who worked in Maine and Washington D.C.
Unavailable
H 33.75 in W 38.75 in D 2 in
American 1940’s WPA Surrealist Style Landscape French Female Artist Cecile Belle
Located in Atlanta, GA
An American circa 1940’s WPA / surrealist style landscape painting by French American female artist Cecile Belle.
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Unavailable
H 22 in W 25.5 in D 1.5 in
John Folinsbee, Delaware River & Lambertville, NJ, ca. 1930, Signed
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Doylestown, PA
Nonetheless, Folinsbee lived a relatively long and full life as a painter, muralist, teacher and WPA artist. He came to Pennsylvania in 1914, where he lived for 58 years, becoming on...
Oil, Canvas
Unavailable
H 24 in W 14 in D 2 in
Albert Pels, American 1910-1998 Social realist figural Portrait Oil on Canvas
By Albert Pels
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pels was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, and the Society of Independent Artists. He was on the board of directors of the Arts Students Leagu...
Oil
Unavailable
H 28 in W 34 in D 2 in
John Folinsbee, View of New Hope from Lambertville, Oil on Paper, Signed
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Doylestown, PA
Nonetheless, Folinsbee lived a relatively long and full life as a painter, muralist, teacher and WPA artist. He came to Pennsylvania in 1914, where he lived for 58 years, becoming on...
Paper, Oil
Afternoon Shadows
By Peppino Mangravite
Located in New York, NY
While an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangravite had a solo exhibition at the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions.
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Pine Cones, Maine
By Peppino Mangravite
Located in New York, NY
While an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangravite had a solo exhibition at the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions.
Canvas, Oil
Rose and Table Still Life
By Peppino Mangravite
Located in New York, NY
While an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mangravite had a solo exhibition at the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions.
Oil, Canvas
California WPA Painting "Airplane Factory" by Helen Ludwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
During the Depression she worked for the WPA as an artist, teacher, and art supervisor, and was the first female artist chosen to work on the WPA Mural Project.
Masonite
WPA Painter, John Law Walker, Oil on Canvas
By John Law Walker
Located in Tucson, AZ
He was a member of the California Watercolor Society, the Los Angeles Art Association, and the Santa Monica Art Association. As a WPA mural artist, he did work in United States Post...
Paint
Loch Awe
By Helen Rennie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Helen Sewell Rennie was a painter, graphic designer, WPA Artist, and New Yorker cartoonist. Over a six-decade period she created a diverse body of work that reflected her life ex...
1930s Helen Rennie Ink Drawings - Individually Priced
By Helen Sewell Rennie
Located in San Francisco, CA
Visit our website to see our collection of nearly 5,000 original pieces: http://www.lostartsalon.com Helen Sewell Rennie was a painter, graphic designer, WPA Artist, and New York...
Pen
Unavailable
H 36.63 in W 48.63 in D 2 in
1973 Ben Wilson "Blue Skies and Angry People, Centrifuge" Large-Scale Oil
By Ben Wilson
Located in 3 Oaks, MI
His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reflecting an acute aware...
Untitled (Rabbi with Prayer Shawl)
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
During the Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
Oil
Untitled
By John Stephan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Having painted urban landscapes and worked as a WPA artist through the 1930s, John Stephan truly came of age as an artist after World War II.
Disc 4
By John Stephan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Having painted urban landscapes and worked as a WPA artist through the 1930s, John Stephan truly came of age as an artist after World War II.
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled
By John Stephan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Having painted urban landscapes and worked as a WPA artist through the 1930s, John Stephan truly came of age as an artist after World War II.
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled
By John Stephan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Having painted urban landscapes and worked as a WPA artist through the 1930s, John Stephan truly came of age as an artist after World War II.
Oil, Canvas
Tulips
By Zama Vanessa Helder
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
As one of the leading WPA artists in the state, Helder was selected to design and produce two mural maps for the State Capitol Museum in 1938.
Paper, Watercolor
Rocky Coast (53-W1)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (53-06)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (56-14)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (61-100)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (52-13)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (55-W3A)
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
At age seventeen, he received his first art instruction from WPA artist and illustrator Robert Lahr. Called up by the military in 1939, Pace served first at Camp Lee, near Petersburg...
Paper, Watercolor
$9,750
H 40 in W 32 in D 2 in
Stunning Art Deco Young Woman Portrait Framed Signed Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Exquisite antique portrait painting of a young fashionable woman. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 31H by 24L.
Canvas, Oil
Refreshment and Intermission
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Refreshment and Intermission, tempera on board, 11 x 19 inches, c. 1930/40s, signed lower middle...
Tempera
$6,500
H 26 in W 32 in
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right. BIO David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958...
Paper, Watercolor
$5,000
H 40 in W 42 in D 2 in
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Cowboys Horses Cattle WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Cowboy 33 3/4 x 36 inches Oil on paper, c. 1930s Signed lower left 40 x 42 inc...
Paper, Oil
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
$1,356Sale Price|20% Off
H 24.5 in W 36 in D 2 in
Antique American Modernist Street Scene Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, wrapped to board. No signature found.
Canvas, Oil
$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
$5,500
H 28 in W 22 in
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue Elevated 19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Watercolor on paper Signed an...
Paper, Watercolor
$15,000
H 25 in W 28 in
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910-1953) "Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office 19 ½ x 22 ½ inches Oil on B...
Oil, Board
$5,500
H 21 in W 26 in
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century
By Max Arthur Cohn
Located in New York, NY
6th Avenue El at 8th St NYC Cityscape American Scene Social Realism Mid-Century Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue El at 8th Street 13 x 18 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1930 ...
Paper, Watercolor
$20,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 64 in W 46 in D 1.5 in
"Bricklayer at Rest, " Monumental WPA Period Painting of Worker with Landscape
By Paul Ulen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the finest depictions of an American worker from the 1930s that we have seen, this monumental painting of a shirtless bricklayer, resting against a curved brick niche, with a ...
Paint
$1,475
H 22 in W 18 in D 2 in
Historically Important American Army Soldiers in Paris Cafe WPA Ashcan Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring 18 by 22 inches.
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 17 in W 22 in
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Good Health Week 10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches Oil on paper, c. 1940s Estate stamp verso 1...
Paper, Oil
'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on off-white, wove paper, w...
Lithograph
$11,500
H 20 in W 25 in
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Mervin M Jules (1912-1994 "The Money Lender" 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower left F...
Oil, Board