Wpa Mural

This magnificent example of WPA art, showing self determination in the work place, hung in the Bank

, San Francisco" is a rare WPA mural study created by Otis Oldfield, one of the leaders of the Bay Area

Painted very much in the style of WPA murals, this is a handsome painting from that period. The

WPA mural artist, he did work in United States Post Offices in Pasadena and Lockhart, Texas, and the

downward. It is finely painted in a modernist, realist style and may have been a study for a WPA

working in an abstract mode in the late 1920s and played a prominent role in the WPA Mural Division in New

working in an abstract mode in the late 1920s and played a prominent role in the WPA Mural Division in New

Rgrfinearts presents a rare WPA mural study by the African American artist Carl G. Hill. Mr. Hill

played a prominent role in the WPA Mural Division in New York and created a major mural in 1936-37 for

played a prominent role in the WPA Mural Division in New York and created a major mural in 1936-37 for

arguably the WPA mural project at San Francisco's Rincon Center, the costliest and one of the most

, 1929 (prize) 1930 (prize), 1931 (prize); AIC; WMAA Work: Mem. Art Gal., Rochester, NY; WMAA; WPA mural

commissions included 2 WPA murals for Croton School and 2 WPA murals for William Wilson School in Mt. Vernon

taking place in 1955. Gerrity completed several WPA mural projects, culminating in his monumental mural

, Rothko and others--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave otherwise unemployed artists jobs during the

figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave otherwise unemployed

This interesting mural came out of a collection of an aviator. WPA in style, the mural tells the

participated in the WPA mural project which gave otherwise unemployed artists jobs during the Great Depression

abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions

abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions

abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions

as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to

as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to

Cards, John Deforest Stull (1910-1972) was also a painter and WPA muralist whose mural work was done for

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

--Loew painted in a figurative style before the war and participated in the WPA mural project which gave

supervisor, and was the first female artist chosen to work on the WPA Mural Project

Progress Administration (WPA) as a muralist. In 1942, he married fellow artist Beatrice Mandelman. In the

WPA muralist whose mural work was done for Radio City Music Hall with artist Ezra Augustus Winter

another WPA mural on the evolution of aviation, which was installed at the Sand Point Naval Station

mainstay, working on WPA projects and murals and exhibiting regularly, including at SFMOMA in 1940. From

exhibition at the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions. He executed

the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions. He executed murals for the

exhibition at the museum in 1941. As a WPA artist, Mangravite won many mural commissions. He executed

the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He executed numerous murals for the WPA and exhibited over a long

for the Federal Art Project of the WPA, completing a number of murals on commission from 1937 to 1942

WPA project to paint murals in San Francisco’s Coit Tower. Following WW II, Oldfield taught at the

. Sheckler also assisted artists Jean Goodwin and Arthur Ames on the three-panel WPA (Works Progress

Depression he was a WPA artist, and his murals are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville

Like many WPA mural studies, this work is unsigned. The title of the work is also the nickname for

WPA Mural Study American Scene Modernism San Francisco Post Office 20th Century Mural Study for

Large-scale oil on canvas painting depicting cowboys attending cattle. Six murals were made in

Modernist WPA mural study for the Oneonta Tuberculosis Hospital by Bertram Hartman (1882 - 1960

management-labor amity. Beck also painted a WPA mural for the Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts, a

several WPA murals in the Los Angeles area. His works are in the collection of the Los Angeles County

abstract art who created murals for the Williamsburg Housing Project under the WPA. Reuben Kadish (1913

murals for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, a WPA mural for the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts

muralists. Beck painted a WPA mural in Massachusetts, and carried out decorative painting in the East Room

became director of WPA mural projects for the state of New Jersey. He completed major murals for Newark

painter in the Works Progress Administration (his WPA murals can still be seen in post offices in North

, Excorda, Excambion. WPA murals, USPOs, Seneca (KS), Magnolia (AR), Anthony (KS), Charleston (MO

Although America's sculptors interested in African American life and Black subjects, including Elizabeth Catlett, Richmond Barthé, Sargent Johnson and Augusta Savage, are increasingl...

A rare and superb depiction of modern dance in the era of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and modern dance pioneers such as Martha Graham, this figure of a modern male dancer, his ar...

Extraordinarily powerful, and very rare, this large bronze sculpture of a nude male figure by Arthur Dupagne shows him stretching and straining upwards, his head rolled back and shou...

This sophisticated view of a 1920s cocktail party -- probably taking place on the upper levels of an Art Deco tower in New York or Chicago -- was painted by Robert Patterson, one of ...

Although this painting dates to 1951, a few years after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) period ended in the 1940s, this tight composition of two pipe fitters doing their work...

This fantastic view of a great battle waged by a phalanx of nude male soldiers -- probably a scene from Sweden or France -- was painted by Nils Wedel, an important Swedish painter st...

Beautifully and sensitively painted, this view of a young, nude male model, facing away from the viewer, places him in an artist's studio or atelier, with painters and their easels v...

Brilliantly painted in tones of turquoise, Mediterranean blue, aqua, sky blue and a range of rich browns, tans and grays, this view of three young men bathing in the bay of Algiers i...

Monumental and quite extraordinary, this utopian scene -- all cast in a lovely, warm glow -- depicts a wide range of nude figures, mostly male, in a grassy river valley between mount...

Continuing a tradition going back decades, Josef Pieper painted a series of seaside scenes with multiple nude male figures, riding and leading horses along the shore, their strong bo...

One of the most striking and remarkable Art Deco paintings we have ever offered, this depiction of a group of 1940s sailors visiting a New Orleans brothel is full of boisterous energ...

"Pelham Bay" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern NYC Subway Transportation Daniel Ralph Celantano (1902-1980) "Pelham Bay" 12 1/4 x 16 inches Oil on canvas Signed lower cente...

Boldly painted in an expressionist palette that calls to mind the work of Edvard Munch and other Nordic painters who were in the artistic vanguard of the 20th century, this depiction...

Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Cecil C. Bell (American, 1906-1970) Brookyn Bridge amid the NYC Waterfront 35 ½ x 23 ½ inches Oil on Bo...

"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Heusing (20th Century) "High School Dance" 27 x 32 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated '47 Lower Righ...

This moody and atmospheric painting depicting a quiet domestic moment is reminiscent of the best work of John Koch, but it was painted by a more recent master of figurative painting ...