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Large George Aarons Terracotta Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
(Boston), a longshoreman, fisherman and foundry worker, as well as a large relief (1938) for the South
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Terracotta
Three Girls Bronze Relief Sculpture Plaque Chaim Gross Modernist WPA Era Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross
Three little girls, three Graces. 1981.
Bronze sculptural relief plaque mounted to
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern More Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
H 7 in W 7.5 in D 1.5 in
Plaster Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist Peace Swords to Ploughshares
By George Aarons
Located in Surfside, FL
foundry worker, as well as a large relief (1938) for the South Boston Housing Project and façade of the
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan' — WPA Era Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
commissioned by the Treasury Relief Art Project for the Post Office at 33rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
By Ervin B. Nussbaum
Located in Surfside, FL
and a wood bas-relief was created for the sanctuary at the Yonkers Temple Emanuel. Nussbaum would
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
H 22.5 in W 30.75 in D 0.1 in
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
reliefs, sculptures, and decorative items for them. He set up a studio in his apartment building and
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
WPA Art Deco Terracotta Buffalo Sculpture by Anthony Vozech, Circa 1930s
Located in Bernville, PA
WPA terracotta buffalo sculpture by Anthony Vozech, circa 1930s. Dimensions: 8” wide 20” high 22
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
By William Zorach
Located in New York, NY
butternut panel than the print and turned the panel into a carved relief. With no formal training as a
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
, in turn, helped get him transferred to the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) that commissioned work
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 26 in W 35.5 in D 0.5 in
Wpa Artist Minna Harkavy '1887 – 1987' Pair Opposing Bronze Table Lamps
By Minna Harkavy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of modernist 1930's sculptural bronze table lamps by WPA Artist Minna Harkavy. Raised figural
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Wood
"Mailman, " Rare and Important WPA Maquette and Bronze by Rudolf Henn
By Rudolph Henn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
WPA bas relief at the post office in Loudonville, Ohio, was created by Rudolf Henn in 1938. Henn was a
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
.
A WPA muralist, illustrator and modernist painter especially known for paintings with Jewish themes
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
as Director at the Art Barn School until the early forties. Working with the WPA as one of the
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 18.75 in W 25.5 in D 0.13 in
"Falling Satyr, " Superb Art Deco Panel with Male Nude by WPA Sculptor
By Don Griffith
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Carved from a "found" panel of distressed walnut, this superb bas relief sculptural panel of a
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Antoine Bourdelle.
Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Minna HarkavyBronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist, c.1930-1940
H 16 in W 7.25 in D 10 in
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Springs Post Office and Mechau, in turn, helped get him transferred to the Treasury Relief Art Project
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Agriculture, " Bronze, Allegorical Art Deco Sculptural Relief Celebrating Labor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Classic example of WPA-era sculpture celebrating the worker, this beautiful bronze bas relief
Category
Vintage 1930s Hungarian Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
H 13 in W 6.5 in D 0.25 in
"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
1970s Large Wood, Copper Inlay Sculpture Wall Relief Tropical Flowers Motif
By Helen Weber
Located in Surfside, FL
Helen Weber
Large wall hanging wood and metal sculptural relief in a tropical Hawaiian or
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Copper
"Fruit Carrier, " Large Sculptural Relief in Mahogany with Male Figure, Art Deco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and impressive, carved in a naive-sophisticated way that suggests folk art as well as WPA
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
H 30 in W 11.5 in D 1.5 in
Warren Soned "Calcification"
Located in Miami, FL
-51 (won All-Am. Intercollegiate award for Des.); bas-reliefs, Broad Causeway, Bay Harbor, FL; murals
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Drawings
Materials
Wood, Paper
"Statuesque Female Nude, " Superb Art Deco Sculpture by Mankowski
By Bruno Mankowski
Located in Philadelphia, PA
art. Mankowski exhibited widely in the 1930s and 1940s, sculpted a WPA bas relief panel for the Post
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Flower Still Life
By Adrian Dornbush
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Isabella
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original carved wood sculpture by American WPA artist Avis Zeidler Nemkoff
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
a number of shows, but sales were few. Relief came when Burgoyne Diller began championing
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Warren Wheelock Bronze Sculpture, circa 1930s, Boy and Rabbit
By Warren Wheelock
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Wheelock of Baron von Steuben is in Philadelphia. He did WPA work as well. During the summers of the early
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'Skaters' — 1930s Woodstock, New York
By Emil Ganso
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
.
Although he considered himself primarily a painter, Ganso made prints in all media, including relief and
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Gouache, Stencil
Abstract Expressionist Provincetown Seascape Oil Painting
By Joseph Kaplan
Located in Surfside, FL
career he worked on several WPA Federal Art Projects and Treasury Relief Art Projects. Joseph Kaplan was
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Fisherman's Wharf - San Francisco" Multi Layer Screen Print on Paper - Signed
By Gordon Cope
Located in Soquel, CA
Roosevelt's term, the President created the Works Projects Administration (WPA) as part of his New Deal
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper, Ink
H 22.5 in W 27 in D 1.25 in
Abstract Black and White Lithograph by Albert Wein
Located in Pasadena, CA
working for an advertising company in New York City to join the WPA. This was an extremely productive
Category
Mid-20th Century American Prints
Materials
Paper
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Unicorn" Chicago Jewish Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published
By O. Louis Guglielmi
Located in New York, NY
Depression years of 1934 to 1939, Guglielmi found employment with the Federal government's artist relief
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neoclassical Head in profile
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
a number of shows, but sales were few. Relief came when Burgoyne Diller began championing
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers Still Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mixed Media Modernist Sculptural Judaica Painting SHABBAT CANDLES
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
'Tanks #1' — 1920s American Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
the renowned Weyhe Gallery in 1929.
Assigned to the WPA New York Graphic Arts Division in 1935, he
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TEXTURES WITH GOLD Avant Garde Mixed Media Construction
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Juggler" Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
UNTITLED PORTRAIT (Self Portrait?)
By Byron Browne
Located in Portland, ME
a number of shows, but sales were few. Relief came when Burgoyne Diller began championing
Category
1940s Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED MOUNTAINS
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, participating as well in the Works Progress Administration (the WPA.) In the 1960s, eminent San Francisco
Category
1930s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
VOLCANO
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, participating as well in the Works Progress Administration (the WPA.) In the 1960s, eminent San Francisco
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, participating as well in the Works Progress Administration (the WPA.) In the 1960s, eminent San Francisco
Category
1930s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor
DEBRIS - Large Ink Drawing - Study for the Print
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, participating as well in the Works Progress Administration (the WPA.) In the 1960s, eminent San Francisco
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
PLUNGING COMET
By Edward Hagedorn
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, participating as well in the Works Progress Administration (the WPA.) In the 1960s, eminent San Francisco
Category
1930s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Granite
Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
.
Assigned to the WPA New York Graphic Arts Division in 1935, he left in 1936 to accept a commission from the
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Backyards of Broadway' — 1920s American Precisionism, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
.
Assigned to the WPA New York Graphic Arts Division in 1935, he left in 1936 to accept a commission from the
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Corner of Steel Plant' — 1920s American Modernism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
cityscapes and industrial scenes was mounted by the renowned Weyhe Gallery in 1929.
Assigned to the WPA New
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Darkness (portrait of a young woman)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
; Denver Art Mus.; Mus. FA, Houston; SFMA; PAFA. Commissions: true fresco, WPA, Hollywood H.S., 1935; oil
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Canyon)
By Louis Ribak
Located in Santa Fe, NM
, and Home Relief Station is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In the
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Personages of the Gorge
By Louis Ribak
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Coal Miners is in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum, and Home Relief Station is in the
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Angry Skies (Andante Cantabile) — Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
.
Assigned to the WPA New York Graphic Arts Division in 1935, he left in 1936 to accept a commission from the
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WPA IN PROGRESS
Located in Chicago, IL
Wpa wall relief. Original and framed. This is a spectacular example of WPA Post-war and is in
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Concrete
The Industry of War
By Vladimir Yoffe
Located in Minneapolis, MN
The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe interrogates the tension between war and peace
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Fishing on the River, Autumn
By Henry Church
Located in Graton, CA
A self-taught rock carver and painter from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Henry Church did bas-relief rock
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hand Painted WPA Road Improvement Project Signs
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Americana collection.
Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the WPA was
Category
20th Century American Signs
Materials
Wood
1930s WPA Plaster/Resin Sculpture Petit Trianon at Versailles
Located in New York, NY
government's Work's Progress Administration's or WPA program employed hundreds of thousands of artists and
Category
Vintage 1930s American Louis XIV Architectural Models
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
1930's WPA plaster/resin sculpture Petit Trianon at Versailles
Located in Palm Springs, CA
government's Work's Progress Administration's or WPA program employed hundreds of thousands of artists and
Category
Vintage 1930s American Folk Art Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
reliefs, sculptures, and decorative items for them. He set up a studio in his apartment building and
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
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