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Mid Century Cape of Good Hope Seascape Etching
By John Stoll
Located in Soquel, CA
for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade Stoll
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer s Ink, Etching
Birds on Branches - Lithograph in Ink on Paper - Edition of 75
Located in Soquel, CA
. Nakamizo worked on the New York City WPA Federal Art Project in the 1930s and but was detained during World
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
TL #7
By Jack Tworkov
Located in Missouri, MO
, Tworkov worked in the Easel Division of the WPA Federal Art Project, and by the 1940s was deeply involved
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Colorado Winter Landscape Oil Painting of Rocks and Trees Over Valley with Snow
Located in Denver, CO
on the Arts, 1971; Federal Art Project of the Works Process Administration granted a mural for the
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Continuity #1
By Ibram Lassaw
Located in Surfside, FL
and 1942 he worked for various federal arts projects: the Public Works of Art Project, Civil Works
Category
1970s Abstract Prints
Jean de Paleologue (1855-1942) Portrait of a monk, 1891, original signed drawing
By Pal (Jean de Paléologue)
Located in Paris, FR
and accepted numerous commissions as part of the Federal Art Project. Paleologu died in Miami Beach.
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Skaters
— 1930s Woodstock, New York
By Emil Ganso
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
. After his return, he worked in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Gouache, Stencil
CANDACE 1992 Tribute To African American Women, Black Woman Face Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
during the mid-1930s with the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, she became
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
CANDACE 1992 Tribute To African American Women, Black Woman Face Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
. Porter. While working as a muralist for two months during the mid-1930s with the Federal Art Project of
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pink Ground
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Federal Art Project’s easel-painting division, he spent two years in the California desert, where he
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
American Modernist "Feast of Pure Reason" Aquatint Mezzotint Etching WPA Artist
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
Museum of Art.
In 1935, shortly after its formation, Levine joined the WPA’s Federal Art Project, where
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching, Aquatint
VILLA NEUVE Signed Lithograph, City Landscape Collage, Modernist Abstract, Flag
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Union City, NJ
was a WPA artist with the Federal Art Project, and this job was his first opportunity to devote
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
VILLA NEUVE Signed Lithograph, Modernist Abstract, City Landscape, Collage, Flag
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Union City, NJ
including Cooper Union. From 1935 to 1938, he was a WPA artist with the Federal Art Project, and this job
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
VILLA NEUVE Signed Lithograph, Modernist Abstract, City Landscape, Collage, Flag
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Union City, NJ
including Cooper Union. From 1935 to 1938, he was a WPA artist with the Federal Art Project, and this job
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
CHILDREN WITH FLOWERS Signed Lithograph, Multicultural Portrait, Smiling Faces
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, she became influenced by the social activism of
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GLORY Signed Linocut, Standing Profile Portrait, Black Woman, White Line Drawing
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, she became influenced by the social
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
Pop Chilee
Located in San Francisco, CA
WPA's Federal Art Project working under Russell Vernon Hunter. In the late 1930s the Washington, D.C
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
By Rudy Burckhardt
Located in Surfside, FL
Artists. Between 1933 and 1942 he worked for various federal arts projects: the Public Works of Art
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Amish Farmscape #3
By Edmund Lewandowski
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in 1936 two of his watercolors were shown at the Phillips Collection as part of a Federal Art Project
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
lithographer.
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ALL THE PEOPLE Signed Lithograph, For My People-Margaret Walker, Rainbow Faces
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, she became influenced by the social
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Young Girl Reading)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
graphic artist.
In 1937, Thrash signed on for employment with the Federal Art Project’s Fine Print
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Painting in Red, Gray, Green, Black and Yellow)
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
down due to lack of funds, Bunnell participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP) for which he did easel
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, Blue Brown Orange Sage Green
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
country. When it closed down due to lack of funds, Bunnell participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bull III, 1960s Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting, Orange, Black, Brown
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
country. When it closed down due to lack of funds, Bunnell participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Chinese American Modernist Abstract "Black Sky" Color Lithograph
By Seong Moy
Located in Surfside, FL
. Paul, Minnesota. Moy began his art studies as a teenager at the WPA Federal Art Project. He continued
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (nude with arm raised over head)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
receive support from either the Public Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Rare American Modernist Family Group Gouache Painting
By Mark Tobey
Located in Surfside, FL
to work on the Federal Art Project, under the supervision of Inverarity. In June 1939, when Tobey
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Canadian Geese in Flight
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
either the Public Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where
Category
1940s American Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Canadian Geese in Flight
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
either the Public Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where
Category
1940s American Impressionist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Head of a Woman
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
either the Public Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Oil
Abstract
By Werner Drewes
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Museum (under the sponsorship of the WPA's Federal Art Project) and at Columbia University. In 1940 he
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$5,000
Refinery Scene
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where he was an
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Works of Art Project or the Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where he was an
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Before Day Light
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minnesota WPA Federal Art Project.
In Minneapolis, where he was an instructor at the Minneapolis School of
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Claire Falkenstein Abstract Assemblage Sculpture Welded Iron Cobalt Glass
By Claire Falkenstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Federal Art Project, WPA, which strongly preferred paintings depicting American scenes, but some abstracts
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas John Von Wicht WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
and was soon hired to the mural painting division of the Federal Art Project WPA. He collaborated with
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
The Storm, Modern Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist (War Allegory, Refugees)
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
Early Modernist River Landscape with Trees and Mountains 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
1930s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Clown
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
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940s Abstract Watercolor Mixed Media Painting by Charles Bunnell
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
lack of funds, Bunnell participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP) for which he did easel paintings
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Kansas City Skyline, 1930s WPA Era Modernist Line Drawing, Black
White, Framed
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
down due to lack of funds, Bunnell participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP) for which he did easel
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"Untitled" Albert Heckman, 1950s Modernist Abstracted Still Life Composition
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
lithography. He actively participated in the Federal Art Projects during the 1930s Depression and created
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dogs of War
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In Praise of Folly
— 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Judges
from
In Praise of Folly
— Mid-Century Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
narrative.
In 1937, Ward was named Director of the Graphic Arts Division of the Federal Art Project, a
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
1939 Mexican Farm Worker WPA Artist Adolf Dehn American Modern Gouache Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration, WPA in this period. Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Forest or Blue Forest
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arts Division of the WPA Federal Art Project in New York.
Drewes's 1939 exhibition at the Artists
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ecce Homo Plate X
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
drawing and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum Art School funded by the Federal Art Project of the Works
Category
1920s Bauhaus Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Man Sawing Wood (WPA style Painted Lumberyard Scene in Vintage Frame)
By Arthur Hammer
Located in Hudson, NY
personal interest in the painting styles that emerged during the Federally funded Art Project that employed
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunday Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Colorado Mine, Vintage 1930s Modernist Mountain Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Hebron, Nebraska. The mural was part of the federal government’s Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Transfenestration (Hard Edge Abstract oil painting)
By Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
painted on oil canvas. In 1941 as the U.S. entered World War II, all federally sponsored art projects were
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kabuki
By Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
painted on oil canvas. In 1941 as the U.S. entered World War II, all federally sponsored art projects were
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spatial Relations (Hard Edge abstract painting)
By Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
painted on oil canvas. In 1941 as the U.S. entered World War II, all federally sponsored art projects were
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Colorado Mountains, Modernist Landcape)
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
first federally-funded art project during the Great Depression, to paint a group of murals for the main
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"The Great Wall"
By Dong Kingman
Located in San Francisco, CA
he spent five years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Offset
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