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Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period - Midtown
Category

1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique American Modernist WPA Female Portrait Interior Exhibited Oil Painting
By Anatol Shulkin
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior portrait oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Impressionist WPA Woman Ballerina Portrait Oil Painting
By Richard Hook
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early 1900's oil painting. by Richard Hook. Great color and composition. Nicely framed.
Category

1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Itzhak Holtz (Judaica Master) Oil Painting Portrait John Sloan Ashcan Artist WPA
By Itshak Holtz
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Portrait of Ashcan Artist John Sloan. Signed I. Holtz. The youngest of four children
Category

1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Man drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Portrait of a young woman, ca
Category

1930s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Paper

Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in New York, NY
right: Mills As one of the youngest and considered by many to be one of the most gifted WPA. Artists
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor

1940s WPA Era American Modern Figurative Painting of Figure on Deserted Street
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
piece captures the quiet desolation of the American West during the post-WPA era. Measuring 24 x 30
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American School WPA Modernist Black Figure Ashcan Dock View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category

1920s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957 Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Ber...
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

WPA Expressionist woodblock print. "The Worker"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's. Who Was Who in
Category

1930s Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

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...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
for the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s, and was thought to be an illustrator for The Ring
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Nude Portrait by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s, and was thought to be an illustrator for The Ring
Category

20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Portrait Drawing Bearded Man Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

WPA Style Portrait Painting of a Gentleman, American, 1930s-1940s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait painting of Walter Levin, oil on canvas, unframed. Signed Haughton College Bickerton in
Category

Mid-20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American This is not signed bronze portrait bust
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American signed bronze portrait bust, marble, stone
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Rare Self Portrait Oil Painting Polish, Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel School
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed self portrait. Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Impressionist Portrait Painting of Circus Clown 1950
Located in Rochester, NY
. american Emmett Kelly wpa figure portrait impressionist modern
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Youth with Pipes and Valves, " Sensitive Portrait of Young Man, Dorothy Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully and sensitively painted, this WPA-period portrait of a young man in an unusual setting
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

THOMAS HART BENTON
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, lower right image corner. Image size: 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Americana, WPA, Artist Portraits
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Cowper Stove (Industrial Interior Photograph of Abandoned Factory Furnace)
By Doug Fidoten
Located in Hudson, NY
photographer of the WPA period, whose portrait of Doug is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Portrait of a Clown WPA
By Maurice Kish
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait of a Clown WPA
Portrait of a Clown WPA
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.25 in
WPA Painting of a Nubian Male
By WPA
Located in San Francisco, CA
Truly a great WPA style portrait of a Nubian male. In the original frame.
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

WPA Man
Located in Chicago, IL
WPA Water and Pastel
Category

20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

WPA Man
WPA Man
H 21 in W 15 in D 1 in
Oil Portrait of Woman and Child WPA
By Tully Filmus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This oil portrait of a woman and a child was painted by Tully Filmus (1903-1988), the noted
Category

20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Beautiful WPA portrait wood social realist Michael Lenson 1932
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful WPA portrait of a pretty woman by the re-known social realist painter Michael Lenson
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Wood

Judaica Rabbi Portrait Oil Painting American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Morris Shulman
Located in Surfside, FL
in Maine,” Colby College, 1964; Westbeth Gallery, NY, 1973 “NYC WPA Art” at Parsons School Design
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil, Board

1940s WPA American Modernist Portrait Watercolor Painting, Farmer with Hat Blue
Located in Denver, CO
Original watercolor on paper of a portrait of a farmer by WPA era artist Watson Bidwell (1904-1964
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Antique American Modernist WPA Male Smoking Portrait Oil Painting Carl Laughlin
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist portrait painting of a man smoking by Carl Laughlin (born 1926). Oil on board, circa
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Itzhak Holtz (Judaica Master) Oil Painting Portrait John Sloan Ashcan Artist WPA
By Itshak Holtz
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Portrait of Ashcan Artist John Sloan. Signed I. Holtz. The youngest of four children
Category

1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957 Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Ber...
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

WPA Expressionist woodblock print. "The Worker"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's. Who Was Who in
Category

1930s Portrait Prints

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...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

1930s WPA Period Portrait of a Nude Woman
Located in Essex, MA
A WPA period oil on canvas portrait of a nude woman, posing on a red fabric draped stool, in front
Category

Vintage 1930s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

1930s WPA Period Portrait of a Nude Woman
1930s WPA Period Portrait of a Nude Woman
H 18.63 in W 10.25 in D 1.38 in
Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Portrait Drawing Bearded Man Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

WPA Artist Original Oil Painting 40s Portrait of a Handsome Man
By Edward Sewall
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Painted by Portland, Oregon WPA Artist, Edward Sewall (1905-2000) is this fine, 1940s oil on canvas
Category

Vintage 1940s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Wood

Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American signed bronze portrait bust, marble, stone
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American This is not signed bronze portrait bust
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

American School WPA Modernist Surreal Large Interior Portrait Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal interior scene painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed on stretcher verso. Image size 46L x 36H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category

1930s Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Rare Self Portrait Oil Painting Polish, Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel School
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed self portrait. Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Huge Aschan School WPA Style Social Realism Interior Scene Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned.
Category

1960s Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage New York City Street Scene WPA Woman Walking Portrait Oil Painting
By Grace Elizabeth Mallon
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist cityscape oil painting with a young woman walking. Oil on board, circa 1956. Signed. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a wood frame.
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boris Deutsch 'American, 1892 - 1978' a Signed Modernist Portrait Oil on Canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boris Deutsch (American, 1892 - 1978) A signed WPA Modernist Female Portrait Oil on canvas painting.
Category

Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint

Ballerina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fantastic portrait by American WPA artist Buckley MacGurrin.
Category

1940s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ballerina
Ballerina
H 18 in W 14 in
Deco Era Portait
Located in San Francisco, CA
WPA style portrait of a red haired woman. Oil on canvas, unframed and signed E. Smith
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Deco Era Portait
Deco Era Portait
H 21.25 in W 18 in
Richard Ayer Painting "Phyllis"
Located in Oakland, CA
Late 30's Cubist painting by San Francisco WPA artist, Richard Ayer. A portrait of Ayers wife
Category

20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Wood, Canvas

Richard Ayer Painting "Phyllis"
Richard Ayer Painting "Phyllis"
H 24 in W 20 in D 4 in
American School WPA Modernist Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist portrait of a female figure. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Displayed in a
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American WPA Era Woodcut Portrait
By Minnie Lois Murphy
Located in Houston, TX
Eye-catching female portrait woodcut by WPA-era American artist Minnie Lois Murphy (1901-1962
Category

1920s Other Art Style Portrait Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Judaica Rabbi Portrait Oil Painting American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Morris Shulman
Located in Surfside, FL
in Maine,” Colby College, 1964; Westbeth Gallery, NY, 1973 “NYC WPA Art” at Parsons School Design
Category

1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil, Board

Antique American School Modernist WPA Ashcan Woman Portrait Signed Oil Painting
By Richard Hook
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American WPA Social Realism Portrait Return From War Signed Oil Painting
By Leon Kroll
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American social realist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Find the exact wpa portrait you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. If you’re looking for a wpa portrait from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 20th Century. Adding a wpa portrait to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of brown, gray, black, blue and more. There have been many interesting wpa portrait examples over the years, but those made by Maurice Kish, Nahum Tschacbasov, Jacques (Jakub) Zucker, Albert Abramovitz and Guy Pène Du Bois are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these — often created in paint, oil paint and canvas — can elevate any room of your home.

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The average selling price for a wpa portrait we offer is $1,825, while they’re typically $225 on the low end and $8,500 for the highest priced.