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WPA styled Cubist Industrial Oil Painting by Joan Hedman
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A cubist industrial WPA styled oil painting depicting a storage tank compound in the 1930's-40's
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

1930s WPA-Style Walnut Desk Organizer
Located in Red Lion, PA
1930s WPA-Style Wooden Desk Organizer This 1930s WPA-style desk accessory is a superb example of
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Desk Sets

Materials

Walnut

WPA Style Cast Stone Garden Flag Bearer Statue of a Handsome Navy Sailor
By WPA
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
WPA Style Cast Stone Garden Flag Bearer Statue of a Handsome Navy Sailor Artistic influences of
Category

20th Century American Art Deco Statues

Materials

Cast Stone, Iron

20th Century Oil WPA Style Oil Painting Urban Landscape c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
20th Century Oil WPA Style Oil Painting Oil on board. Approximately 20" wide x 16" high. The
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Pair of Art Deco Gilt Iron WPA Style Foundry Men Bookends Signed NMF 1936
By WPA
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Art Deco Gilt Iron WPA Style Foundry Men Bookends Signed NMF 1936 USA, 1936 A rare and
Category

20th Century American Art Deco Bookends

Materials

Iron

WPA Style Industrial Landscape Oil on Board, Signed By Artist
Located in Atlanta, GA
Industrial Landscape in WPA Style by Isaacson, Mid-20th Century. Oil on Board, Measures: 35.5" w x
Category

Mid-20th Century American Industrial Paintings

Materials

Paint

"Seated Black Man, " Rare and Fine WPA-Style Painting attributed to Walker Evans
By Walker Evans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
example of WPA-style portraiture, and in the tradition of Evans' documentary photographs, it depicts a
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

"Family, " Remarkable WPA-style Sculpture, Mahogany, 1956
Located in Philadelphia, PA
child fiercely protecting each other, follows in the WPA tradition which celebrated both worker and
Category

Vintage 1950s American Sculptures

Materials

Mahogany

Artist George Samerjan WPA Style Watercolor "Roller at Van Nuys Blvd" 1941
By George Samerjan
Located in St. Louis, MO
Artist George Samerjan's (1915-2005) WPA style watercolor titled "Roller at Van Nuys" 1941, in its
Category

Vintage 1940s American Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper

Signed WPA Style Harborscape Oil On Canvas
By Bolus
Located in Chicago, IL
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 ...
Category

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Wood, Canvas

Dust Bowl, monotype, black and white, wpa style
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

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 upper right corner, and having the original gallery label on the back. California Bay...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Fine, WPA-style Oil Painting, 1935, by Dorothy Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Executed in gorgeous shades of coral, dove gray and olive, this scene of two nude women perched on folding chairs was painted by Dorothy Van Loan, a celebrated modernist who won many...
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

41st & 10th: Abstract WPA Style Cityscape, New York City Rooftops & Water Tower
By Ricardo Mulero
Located in Hudson, NY
Cityscape painting on muslin of iconic New York City water towers against an abstract maroon, silver, and blue rooftop skyline "41st & 10th" by Hudson, NY based artist, Ricardo Muler...
Category

2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil, Gesso

Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixed races, African
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Caution School Zone WPA Style Wood Sign Red White and Blue Hand Painted
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chunky red, white and blue hand painted school safety zone sign. Super graphic and bold. Nice thick construction.
Category

Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Signs

Materials

Wood

Mid-20th Century Folk Art WPA Style Oil on Canvas Painting, Pelham Bay Park
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Charming folk depiction of Pelham Bay Park.
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Thomas Hart Benton styled Wpa Litho by Eric Bransby " Gold Train "
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
) titled " Gold Train " . Working in the style of the WPA studying in art school with fellow artist Thomas
Category

Mid-20th Century American Arts and Crafts Prints

Materials

Paper

Badmitten
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An exceptional WPA style oil on panel, "Badmitten", c.1938 with an image of 15 x 25.5 inches.
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Badmitten
H 15 in W 25.5 in
Hand-Carved Walnut Sculpture of Dancers by John Begg, USA, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
carving and WPA styles.
Category

Vintage 1950s American Sculptures

Materials

Walnut

Mid-Century Bronze Sculpture Profile of a Woman Face by Sacha S. Schnittmann
By Sacha S. Schnittmann
Located in St. Louis, MO
the market. Schnittmann also worked with mid-century architect Meyer Loomstein, placing his WPA
Category

Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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

WPA-Era Central City, Colorado, 1930s Modernist Lithograph, Cityscape 3/25
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
showcases intersecting lines and planes, emblematic of Rönnebeck's "living cubism" style, reflecting the WPA
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Artist’s Self Portrait Oil Painting - Urban vs Rural Social Commentary
Located in Baltimore, MD
feature buildings, rendered in a WPA style by which he was surely influenced. He died in Baltimore in
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Mahogany Relief of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire in Style of Peterpaul Ott
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Mahogany Wood Relief Sculpture of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire In the Style of WPA
Category

1950s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

Modernist Carved Wooden Head, Man with Helmet
Located in Norwalk, CT
Apparently unsigned. Reminiscent of the style of 1940s WPA artists, this resolute head is carved
Category

Mid-20th Century Busts

Materials

Wood

Waiting
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
the artists of the WPA, Robinson’s style shifted only very slightly towards these changes. His
Category

1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cello Player (Tribute to Pablo Casals)
By Albert W. Wein
Located in Greenwich, CT
the Prix de Rome and he traveled there to study. His early works were in the WPA and the Deco style
Category

1950s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

WPA Style Painting
Located in Washington, D.C., DC
Alley scene painted in the WPA style. Unsigned
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

WPA Style Painting
WPA Style Painting
H 20 in W 24 in
Set of Four WPA Style Ship Paintings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of four framed WPA style oil paintings probably painted in the late 1930's-late 1940's Signed
Category

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Set of Four WPA Style Ship  Paintings
Set of Four WPA Style Ship  Paintings
H 27 in W 31 in D 1.5 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

Bernard Zakheim, WPA Style Sculpture of Moses With Horns
By Bernard Baruch Zakheim
Located in Treasure Island, CA
Sebastopol, CA for many years. Zakheim died in San Francisco on Nov. 28, 1985. Working in a style influenced
Category

Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Sculptures

Framed Ashcan School Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Austin, TX
This wonderful oil painting has a WPA style, 1940s Ashcan art. Signed lower right; D.J. '47. The
Category

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

American 1940’s WPA Surrealist Style Landscape French Female Artist Cecile Belle
Located in Atlanta, GA
An American circa 1940’s WPA / surrealist style landscape painting by French American female artist
Category

Mid-20th Century American Industrial Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Signed WPA Painting Horses and Riders
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted very much in the style of WPA murals, this is a handsome painting from that period. The
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Board

Composition
By Agnes Hart
Located in Lawrence, NY
Like many of her compatriots, Agnes Hart first began to paint in a social realist, or WPA, style
Category

1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Naples and Violets
By Agnes Hart
Located in Lawrence, NY
Like many of her compatriots, Agnes Hart first began to paint in a social realist, or WPA, style
Category

1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled Sand Painting
By Agnes Hart
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many of her compatriots, Agnes Hart first began to paint in a social realist, or WPA, style
Category

1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled
By Agnes Hart
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many of her compatriots, Agnes Hart first began to paint in a social realist, or WPA, style
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled
Untitled
H 50 in W 48 in D 1 in
Mural "The History of Flight" Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This interesting mural came out of a collection of an aviator. WPA in style, the mural tells the
Category

Vintage 1980s American Paintings

Camp Doriance
By Leon Wall
Located in Lawrence, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
By Leon Wall
Located in Lawrence, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Untitled
H 49.5 in W 40 in
Untitled
By Leon Wall
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
H 49.5 in W 40 in
Camp Doriance
By Leon Wall
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Leon Wall
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Untitled
H 62 in W 67 in
Hessians at Trenton
By Leon Wall
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Leon Wall
Located in East Hampton, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Machine Age WPA Style Period German Bronze
Located in Petaluma, CA
amazing little fellow, with his cap, is the height of the WPA style sculpture, although this is from
Category

Vintage 1930s German Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

WPA Style Terracotta Sculpture of Working Men with Sledgehammers
Located in Rochester, NY
An industrial WPA style hand built terracotta earthenware sculpture of two large standing muscular
Category

Early 20th Century American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Earthenware, Terracotta

WPA Style Bar Scene Oil Painting on Panel, Signed and Dated 1935
Located in San Francisco, CA
WPA style oil painting on panel of three guys enjoying a drink outside of a restaurant. Matted and
Category

Mid-20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper

WPA Style American School Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very large painting of an American farm scene in its original frame.
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

WPA Styled Painting by John Imhoff
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A painting in the style of the works of WPA artists depicting a person painting shutters done in
Category

Mid-20th Century American Primitive Paintings

Materials

Paint

Quirky WPA Style Still Life Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Great bold colors on this interesting painting. Signed and dated 1937. The painting is unframed.
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

WPA Style Scene of Working Men Seated with Newspapers by John Deforest Stull
Located in New York, NY
American artist John Deforest Stull in 1939. The composition depicts a WPA style scene of two men
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large WPA Style Painting Of Hobos At California Train Station
Located in Chicago, IL
Very much in the style of WPA era artwork, this large painting on canvas depicts two vagabonds at
Category

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

1930's Wpa style cast stone bust of a man
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A 1930's era cast stone bust of a man in the stylized maner of thw WPA era. It has cast lines but
Category

Vintage 1930s American Folk Art Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Unique, Art Deco Sculpture of Worker with Dove, WPA Style
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Powerfully and gracefully expressed, this large, very fine sculpture -- probably by an important figure such as Albert Wein or Geza de Vegh -- depicts a farm worker with one hand hol...
Category

Vintage 1930s American Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Art Deco WPA Pottery Horse Sculpture by Jordan 1937
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A very well done handcrafted pottery fired clay horse in the Art Deco WPA style with strong build
Category

Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Animal Sculptures

Materials

Clay

East River Panorama I (WPA Style Horizontal Cityscape Painting of Brooklyn, NY)
By Robert Goldstrom
Located in Hudson, NY
the East River in New York City. Painted in a style that evokes the era of the WPA in American history
Category

2010s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, 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

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