Wpa Furniture

A cubist industrial WPA styled oil painting depicting a storage tank compound in the 1930's-40's. Good layering of colors and textures having it original patina worn wood frame signe...

WPA Style Cast Stone Garden Flag Bearer Statue of a Handsome Navy Sailor Artistic influences of the American WPA School A rare WPA-style cast stone garden flag bearer statue, depi...

Pair of Art Deco Gilt Iron WPA Style Foundry Men Bookends Signed NMF 1936 USA, 1936 A rare and striking pair of Art Deco gilt iron bookends, crafted in 1936 during the WPA era and A...

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...

We acquired his large mural study out of an old Hudson River valley estate. It had been rolled up for years. It appears to have been cut down on the left side. Clearly a WPA Mural pr...

A wonderful WPA Surrealist painting by the noted New Jersey artist Michael Lenson. The works appears to have been refined at some point and perhaps has some in painting. We have not ...

Beautiful carved wood tray measuring 24.25" wide, 12" deep and 2" high. The owner had a WPA label attached to the botom of tray.

WPA street scene painting American school. Unsigned, could be NYC.

During the Great Depression (1935-1943), the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art and Craft Projects provided employment to skilled artisans, emphasizing utilitarian yet w...

Group of Three WPA Era Paintings, American, circa 1930s-1950s. From left to right, they are: 1) Brick mason oil painting, American, circa 1930s. It measures 23.5" H x 27.5" W. 2) In...

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...

Vibrant with compressed energy, this remarkable hand-carved sculpture depicting mother, father and child fiercely protecting each other, follows in the WPA tradition which celebrated...

1940s Signed Realist WPA Banana Flower Oil Painting Offered for sale is a stunning 1940s realist WPA oil painting oil on board. The painting is signed and the subject is a new flow...

Colorful impressionistic oil on canvas painting of fishing boats in a harbor. Greens, blues and reds comprise the majority of the color pallet. Nicely framed and signed Bolus. 33" x ...

Monumental WPA Style Painting by Chicago Artist Amelia Helper Offered for sale is a monumental and dramatic painting created in the WPA style. This overscale work is monochromatic a...

Overscale WPA Style Painting by Chicago Artist Amelia Helper Offered for sale is a very large and dramatic painting created in the WPA style. This overscale work is monochromatic an...

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...

A unique vintage survey stick or partial half of one designed in the manner of WPA, Folk Art and African tribal art. Having great aesthetic value with a wonderful patterned painted d...

This exceptional original American Regionalist watercolor and gouache mural study perfectly encapsulates the optimistic "Progress and Industry" design spirit of the Works Progress Ad...

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...

Rosario Russell Fiore (American, 1908-1994) A set of three WPA bronzes depicting founding fathers, 1930s. 5 inches wide by 4 inches deep by 9 ¾ inches tall Rosario R. Fiore ...

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...

Step back into a significant era of American art history with this compelling vintage original oil painting on board, potentially a piece created under the Works Progress Administrat...

1940s WPA School Winter Scene Oil Painting by A. Stuz Offered for sale is a large 1940s WPA school oil painting on canvas of a playful winter scene. The painting is displayed in th...

A unique vintage survey stick or partial half of one designed in the manner of WPA, Folk Art and African tribal art. Having great aesthetic value with a wonderful patterned painted d...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Artist Frederick Hepner Buchholz (1901 - 1983) Connecticut. Oil on Canvas, WPA Modern Industrial American Scene of 1940s WWII Aircraft Factory Workers, titled "Aircraft Riveters". Fr...

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. Brooks depicts a nude...

Depicting a Salome who is both ravishing and terrifying, with her auburn tresses rising up as if on fire, this remarkable work was painted by Dunbar Beck, famed for his WPA and New Y...

Large-scale WPA Style Painting by Chicago Artist Amelia Helper Offered for sale is a very large and dramatic painting created in the WPA style. This overscale work is monochromatic ...

This important example of WPA art, which celebrates American history and folklore like so many murals and other artworks in the 1930s, presents the bearded figure of Johnny Appleseed...

Incredibly rare, original WPA poster designed by Maurice Merlin, a prominent Detroit artist documenting the struggles of urban Michigan. Poster mounted to backing board (secured at ...

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...

Portrait painting of Walter Levin, oil on canvas, unframed. Signed Haughton College Bickerton in upper right corner, and having the original gallery label on the back. California Bay...

1950s Ruth Fulton WPA Abstract Impressionist Painting of Sailors on a Boat Offered for sale is a 1950s Ruth McConnell Fulton (1905-2003) WPA School Impressionist painting depictin...

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...

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...

1936 WPA Era AMERICAN SCENE MODERNIST PAINTING A Connecticut Day HOWARD AHRENS Truly a museum quality artwork. Absolutely beautiful American modernist painting depicting a group of...

This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the idealization of rural workers promoted by the WPA, depicts a farm family and a han...

The painter Iver Rose is best known for his work which brought attention to the plight of workers in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusett...

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 ...

WPA terracotta buffalo sculpture by Anthony Vozech, circa 1930s. Dimensions: 8” wide 20” high 22” deep. Minor wear on the bottom edge. Anthony Vozech was an Ohio artist that did WPA...

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...

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 ...

WPA era scene of skaters on a pond by the New York artist Ida York Abelman (1908-2002) is just in at the shop. Likely painted upstate in the vicinity of the Catskills, this watercolo...

Beautifully sculpted from a ruddy block of mahogany and finished with a patina that gives it a lovely glow, this piece is a superb example of WPA-era sculpture. The artist, Raymond T...

Stylized, warm and poignant, this unique pair of bookends glazed in dark pink and black -- depicting a Black couple asleep in each other's arms -- is a superb example of WPA-period s...

Clearly influenced by stylized Etruscan and African sculpture, this heavy-lidded female head is a classic example of Art Deco design. The artist was Jean de Marco, who was born in Fr...

Brilliantly painted in a palette of canary yellow, orange-red, browns and blues, this WPA-period painting of an open-air market under the Market-Frankford elevated train line ("the E...

Beautifully composed and subtly colored in hues of pale, pale blue and rusty red, this frieze-like composition features two female figures in Classical Greek robes and a semi-nude ma...

An early and important work of Frederick Massa, who is best known for his murals for the Fort Ticonderoga Post Office and the Pacific Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, this fair...

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...

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....

Dated 1945, just before the end of World War II, this important and powerful painting by John De Forest Stull shows an embracing mother and father standing behind their chubby child ...