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Selection of Three WPA Era Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Group of Three WPA Era Paintings, American, circa 1930s-1950s.
From left to right, they are:
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Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Provincetown Dock Scene, " WPA-Era Painting w/ Fishermen by Sterne in Red & Blue
By Maurice Sterne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of WPA-era painting that celebrates the American worker, this dockside scene in
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 30.25 in W 34 in D 2.5 in
"Labor", Handsome WPA-Era Painting with Nudes by Muralist Lichtenauer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
this easel painting -- with its frieze-like array of nude and Classically dressed figures stretching
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Haywagon, " Charming Art Deco-WPA Era Painting with Folk Art Influence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Carnival in Manchester, " Atmospheric, WPA-Era Painting with Carousel by Gernand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A celebration of 1930s America, full of atmosphere and color, this painting by John Gernand depicts
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 25.5 in W 33.5 in D 2.5 in
"Under the El", WPA-Era Painting of Philadelphia Market by Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in a palette of canary yellow, orange-red, browns and blues, this WPA-period
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Acrobat and Circus Horse, " Vivid WPA-Era Painting with Semi-Nude Performer
By William Schulhoff 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when the circus provided an affordable and exotic form of entertainment for the Everyman
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
H 41.5 in W 35 in D 2 in
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
Impressionist Oil Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Philip Krevoruck 1919-1999 an accomplished WPA artist .
A Gritty atmospheric Bar Scene from a
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 12.6 in W 11.03 in D 0.99 in
20th Century Surrealist Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Philip Krevoruck 1919-1999 an accomplished WPA artist . Surrealist Oil on board painted during the
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 25.5 in W 30 in D 1 in
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
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
By Ervin B. Nussbaum
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper.
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
H 22.5 in W 30.75 in D 0.1 in
Modernist Oil Painting the Shop Window NYC 1940s WPA era
By Maurice Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
El Pulsa de México, an English-language magazine. After that time, he dedicated himself to painting
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dennis Burlingame, WPA Era, Circus Sideshow "SnakeCharmer" Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist painting of a circus by Dennis Meighan Burlingame (1901 - 1964). Oil
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
Antonio
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
New York branch of the WPA graphics division.
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 36.75 in W 24.75 in
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
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town), 1940s WPA Era Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape with houses, trees, and clouds. Presented in a custom
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
H 29.25 in W 23.25 in D 2 in
Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Manhattan glass factory where he painted floral designs on vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting (WPA Era) Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
became interested in art. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Couple Dancing', American Folk Art Figural Oil, WPA era
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
figurative painting filled with compressed energy and an atmosphere of psychological ambiguity with the two
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
H 16 in W 12 in D 0.13 in
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
& painting, New York Hospital Lg., 1963-64.
Provenance: Directly from the estate of Irma Sway, wife of
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
., 1972; also medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Bernard Gussow was
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
1930s WPA Era Modernist Colorado Mining Mountain Landscape, Autumn Landscape
By Louise Ronnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
the mountains of Colorado, WPA Era, circa 1935. Colors include red, orange, brown beige, green, cream
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
H 22.25 in W 26.5 in D 0.5 in
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era. 10 x 11 inches oil
Category
1920s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Man drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
& painting, New York Hospital Lg., 1963-64.
Provenance: Directly from the estate of Irma Sway, wife of
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era. The canvas
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing.
Study to Scale
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Clowns: Aren't We All?" Henry Glintenkamp, WPA Era Circus Figures, Modern
By Hendrik Glintenkamp
Located in New York, NY
Hendrik (Henry) J Glintenkamp
Clowns: Aren't We All?, 1942
Signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
20 x 16 inches
The painter and illustrator Henr...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied painting
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lower Manhattan Cityscape American Artist WPA Era NY School c. 1930 Henry Ensol
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern 1930's oil painting by WPA era American artist Henry Ensol. This work comes in
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Cecil Bell (1906
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Cincinnati Ohio Ida Street cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg., 1963-64.
Provenance
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fortune Magazine cover Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist.
Signed lower left
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era Eden Parks Drive
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"500 LB Lady, " Colorful and Charming WPA-Era Carnival Scene by Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
artists, jugglers and animals in piquant detail. This painting retains a remnant of its exhibition label
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
"Vision of Angels, " Important Night-Time Scene, WPA Era, African American Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
other painters in the period, such as Rockwell Kent and Marsden Hartley. The painting is executed on
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 23.5 in W 27.5 in D 1 in
"Lying on the Sand, " WPA-Era Atmospheric Beach Scene with Male & Female Bathers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus and many other painters loved to capture the joy and
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 10.75 in W 14.5 in D 2 in
"Pueblos", Classic WPA-Era Mural Study with Native Americans for Los Angeles, CA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 17.5 in W 33 in D 2 in
3 WPA Paintings Oil on Canvas Ribbon Trains
Located in Miami, FL
Three fine 1930s/1940s WPA era oil on canvas oval paintings of trains with a ribbon and floating
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Colorado Mountain Summer Landscape, 1930s Framed Modernist Oil Painting
By Arnold Blanch
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Modernist WPA era painting by Arnold Blanch (1896-1968) of a Colorado Landscape, likely
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 24.5 in W 32.25 in D 1.5 in
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
became interested in art. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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There is a broad range of wpa era paintings for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Modern, Abstract and Impressionist versions of these works for sale. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add wpa era paintings that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, brown, black, beige and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Albert Sway, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Stephen Csoka, Harry Gottlieb and Maurice Kish are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paint, oil paint and canvas — can elevate any room of your home.
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Wpa era paintings can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $3,400, while the lowest priced sells for $200 and the highest can go for as much as $75,000.