Wpa Mural

It appears to have been cut down on the left side. Clearly a WPA Mural product. When we acquired it the dimensions were approximately 68 wide by 81 inches tall.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World'...

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...

Fogel was awarded several mural commissions during the 1930s by both the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, among them his earliest murals at ...

After serving in World War I, Ulreich moved to New York and worked as a WPA artist painting murals throughout the United States.

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...

A classic example of WPA-period mural painting, this study was painted by Ralf Henricksen in the 1930s, probably for the U.S.

Beck also painted a WPA mural for the Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts, along with a number of private commissions.

He painted another WPA mural in Willoughby, Ohio, and spent years leading the industrial arts departments of two aviation companies -- Curtiss-Wright and North American Aviation.

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles.

In France, he became friends with Marsden Hartley. Stone was on the WPA mural project.

The cluster of knotty male nudes depicted in this high-energy drawing by Ben Messick illustrates his mastery of mural painting and animation. He worked as a sketch artist at the Disn...

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...

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 ...

Again in the WPA mural manner, there is an instructive text below that quotes Theodore Roosevelt: "We Americans are Children of the Crucible -- We Must be Americans and Nothing Else...

WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980) Proposal Sketch for Worland Wyoming Post Office WPA Mural Project...

Painted by Eduard Buk Ulreich, who contributed a set of murals to Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center in New York, as well as WPA murals across the nation, this beautiful dep...

Perfumed with the heady colors and forms of tropical flowers such poppy and hibiscus, this arresting Art Deco watercolor was painted by Gustavo Cenci, best known for his part in pain...

A striking example of WPA mural art, this study for one of the murals proposed for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New Y...

Beck executed an important set of murals for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, a WPA mural for the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and decorations for a piano donated by St...

The artist also painted murals for the Stearns County Courthouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota, as well as WPA murals for two post offices.

When the Great Depression struck, he became director of WPA mural projects for the state of New Jersey.

In his early years, artist Ivan Bartlett was known for his WPA mural painting, such as for the Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho, but in the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for ...

Painted in 1946, Deserted Street is a compelling example of Jenne Magafan's mature American Modernist vision, created during the years following her nationally recognized WPA mural p...

David Margolis (September 3, 1911 — October 8, 2003) was an American artist known for his WPA murals in New York City. Margolis was born in born in Volochysk, Ukraine moved to the Un...

Hilaire Hiler was a key figure in American modernism, known not only as a painter and printmaker but also as a color theorist and educator associated with WPA mural projects, includi...

Clark painted WPA murals in the 1930s, did illustration art for Forbes magazine, and ultimately settled down on the west coast of Florida to teach and paint.

This masterpiece was painted by Michael Lenson, a Russian-American painter who won a major prize at the National Academy of Design and exhibited at several New York galleries, before...

A bold 1940s graphite on paper WPA era mural study of a Chicago city scene by Rudolph Weisenborn.

He worked as a book illustrator and industrial designer and was active as a mural painter in the Works Progress Administration (his WPA murals can still be seen in post offices in No...

A vibrant modernist watercolor painting by celebrated American artist Ethel Magafan, 'Valley of the World' captures the expressive color, rhythmic composition, and regional sensibili...

Much of Palmer's work during the late 1930s was devoted to the various government art programs; he won a coveted commission to paint murals for the Post Office Department building in...

Marsh's works can be found in important private and public collections around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylva...

Louis Lozowick, 'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan', lithograph, edition 10 or fewer, 1936.

Thomas Hart Benton established his reputation in the 1930s with five mural projects which changed the face of American art and provided the principle artistic model for the WPA mural...

The style and subject are very representative of the great WPA murals of the time. Painted in 1936 at the height of American Regionalism, perhaps as a commission for Jean S.

After returning to the U.S., Hiler painted WPA murals for San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Bath House and later founded Fremont College in Los Angeles, which he relocated to Santa Fe as ...

A lesser known aspect of Pène du Bois's career is his involvement with the WPA projects. In 1937 Pène du Bois received a WPA mural commission to depict John Jay at His Home for the p...

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

This includes a number of WPA murals. His work was also exhibited at the San Francisco and New York World Fairs.

Refregier was an artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) He did several murals in the San Francisco area.

WCC; Woodstock AA. Commissions: WPA mural, USPO, Masontown, PA. Comments: He came to the U.S. from England, in 1935.

Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980) "Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbar...

In the 1920s and 1930s, he worked as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) Artist, designing painted murals in Chicago for the Temple Building and a marble mosaics mural for the Cent...

He also became a prominent participant in the WPA mural program. He did a series of works that received much attention at the time, of circus performers.

WPA Post Office Mural Study American Scene Regionalism Social Realism Modern Art Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901 - 1980) Oil Riggers, Mural Study Image: 6 1/2 x 37 inches Watercolor ...

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing.

Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s. 9 x 12 inches.

He was one of the founders of the Memphis Academy of Art in 1937, where he served as Professor Emeritus into the 1980s, and completed the WPA murals at the Pink Palace Museum, said t...

Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Couriers of History Bronx Post Office Mural Study Horse in the Sun (with two ad...

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...

Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild..

St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Jo Cain (1904-2003) The Drama of the St.

During the 1930s, he completed major WPA mural commissions, including work for the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., before later becoming an instructor at the Colorado...

Hired by Burgoyne Diller, he painted two of the five Williamsburg Housing Project murals for the New York WPA mural program—the first abstract murals created in the United States.

In the 1920s and 30s, he did numerous American Scene paintings and painted WPA murals during the Depression. From 1913 to 1952, he earned his living as a lithographer but during this...