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Cubist Industrial Oil Painting by Joan Hedman WPA Styled
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

Vintage 1943 WPA Style Dorothy Stauffer Etching
Located in Seguin, TX
along lower margin. WPA style titled Cost Plus NAA, scene at the NAA in Grand Prairie Texas the summer
Category

Vintage 1940s American Modern Prints

Materials

Paper

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

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

"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

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

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
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Vintage 1940s American Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper

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 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

Man in Suit (WPA Style Figurative Painting by Mark Beard as Edith Cromwell)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
WPA style figurative painting of a man with suit and tie "Man in Suit," painted by Mark Beard aka
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Adam & Eve in Twickenham: WPA Style Figurative Painting by Mark Beard
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
WPA style figurative painting of a "Adam & Eve" in pink dress and blue shirt with suspenders, and
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

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

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

Gesso, Wood Panel, Oil

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

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

Herman Roderick Volz "The Argument" WPA & Modern Expressionist Artist
By Herman Roderick Volz 1
Located in Fulton, CA
A WPA style lithograph titled "The Argument" by Herman Roderick Vols (1904-1990). Pencil signed and
Category

Vintage 1940s American Prints

Materials

Paper

James Yoko Mid Century Landscape Painting
By James Yoko
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A very well done landscape painting in the manner of WPA styled pieces with bold colors and strokes
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

W.P.A. Style Painting, Science, Politics Industry 1940s-1950s, Oil on Board
By WPA
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing W.P.A. style painting, trip-tic depicting science, politics industry, worker's, 1940s-1950s
Category

Vintage 1940s American Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paint

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 Larchmont, 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

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

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
lithograph showing a woman slumped over her work in a WPA sewing room, and Snow Clearing (1933), showing men
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Color

Daydream (WPA Era Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in New Orleans, LA
that WPA period feel. A pensive painting sure to bring you peace. With frame it measures 33" x 27
Category

Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

'Sailing' — 1930s Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
condition. Scarce. Created for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Unique Painting By Albert Pels WPA Artist!
By Albert Pels
Located in Larchmont, NY
evolved his technique and style. Pels was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the
Category

20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Biblical Prophet Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
“The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"Nude, " Arnold Blanch, Woodstock School, WPA, Figurative
By Arnold Blanch
Located in New York, NY
painter of scenes of social-realist American life with mystical overtones and a child-like seeming style
Category

1930s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Impressionist Oil Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
variety of extraordinary styles. Particularly known for his WPA subjects, Krevoruck's work revealed a
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Watercolor of Houses
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
include Custom Made (1940), a lithograph showing a woman slumped over her work in a WPA sewing room, and
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"Two Figures, " Louis Stone, Abstract, American WPA Modernism
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
" Ney, and Elsie Driggs), his work from the mid-1930s and 1940s retains a distinctive style that
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

20th Century Surrealist Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Museum. Krevoruck was “well versed in a variety of extraordinary styles. Particularly known for his WPA
Category

1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Geometric WPA Painting Transcendental Art Modern Non Objective 1940s
Located in New York, NY
and drawings that embraced styles from realism through abstraction. A member of the WPA, he was best
Category

1940s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Encaustic

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
avant-garde developments in Europe. Different styles from international sources developed concurrently
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D'Paris WPA Female Equestrienne
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

Paper, Oil Pastel

"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
the 1930’s to the 1980’s, is a kaleidoscope of influences, from modernism to the Byzantine style and
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

Abstract Expressionist Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish American Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern William Gropper (1898
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint 'El Station, Interior' NYC Subway, WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art
Category

1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Jewish Shtetl Peddlar Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jewish Shtetl Peddlar Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jewish Shtetl Peddlar Pushcart Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jewish Shtetl Machers Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Women, Dishes, Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Thanksgiving" Doris Lee, Family Genre Scene Interior, Americana, WPA, Woodstock
By Doris Lee
Located in New York, NY
subjects in a style that combined Realism and Modernism, Doris Lee settled in Woodstock, New York, having
Category

1940s American Realist Interior Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
By Ervin B. Nussbaum
Located in Surfside, FL
. During these early years, his paintings followed a somewhat whimsical figurative style and leaned towards
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
the WPA of the 20th Century. Aaron Bohrod (American 1907 – 1992), Industrial Cityscape, 20 x 16 inch
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'Chorus Line', Cooper Union, WPA, MoMA, Metropolitan, Smithsonian, Woman Artist
By Ruth Gikow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
. After graduating from art school, she was granted four years of WPA's Federal Arts Project funding. In
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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

Mexican Siesta Pastel Drawing 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

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