Massive WPA Mural Study

A great large abstract with a unique knife palette work centre square. The painting is signed but we cannot make out the name.

A quite impressive large abstract by the noted artist Joshua Jenkins, done in 2014 and titled on the back "Hanging with Jesus" Some minor paint loss, but in good condition. The paint...

A really wonderful abstract that is illegibly signed (Tanaka?). This painting has been recently reframed. There was a patch repair on the back, but now has a paper backing since the ...

A nice estate fresh oil on canvas by the noted Woodstock artist hope Manchester. The estate it was purchased from bought it directly from the artist....

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 ...

A classic example of WPA-period mural painting, this study was painted by Ralf Henricksen in the 1930s, probably for the U.S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, north of Chicago....

This classic example of Social Realist art was painted by Rollin Crampton as a study for a WPA mural -- perhaps never executed -- in the 1930s, when he was s...

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 foreground and a magnificent landscape of canyons and Pueblo dwellings in the background. This served as a study for one of five large canvases she delivered to California in 1941 or 1942, but the building was cordoned off due to America's entrance into World War II. Burkhardt (or Burkhard) was the daughter of two important artists and was introduced to painting and crafts at an early age. In her prime, she won seven U.S. Government mural commissions in national competitions for buildings in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. She settled in Grand Junction...