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NYC School Abstract Expressionist Russian-American Painter Pastel Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Federal Art Project and was a member of the Artists’ Union and the American Artists’ Congress. Stillman
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pastel
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Photo Collage Assemblage Photograph
By Martin Sumers
Located in Surfside, FL
1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA
Category
1990s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Photo Collage Assemblage Photograph
By Martin Sumers
Located in Surfside, FL
1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA
Category
20th Century Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Judaica Hand Signed Poster Rabbi with Torah
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
American Abstract Expressionist Flowers 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 Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
By Louis Schanker
Located in Fairlawn, OH
then the WPA Federal Art Project. Schanker participated in both beginning in 1933. He was an artist and
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Wizard Fantasy)
By Morris Louis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Progress Administration Federal Art Project. During this period, he knew Arshile Gorky, David Alfaro
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Boston Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Original Pencil Drawing Martin Sumers
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Boston Expressionist Conte Pencil Drawing "Still Life with Flies" Hyman Bloom
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a studio in the South
Category
1990s Abstract Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Ecce Homo VII
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 Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
. During the Great Depression, he worked on Federal public art projects, completing murals in Indiana, Ohio
Category
1940s Cubist Mixed Media
Materials
Board
On the Beach modernist oil painting by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Hudson, NY
of Art Project. After brief enrollment in the Easel division he entered the Mural division, designing
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Hudson, NY
of Art Project. After brief enrollment in the Easel division he entered the Mural division, designing
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
Art Project. Alston designed and painted murals at the Harlem Hospital and the Golden State Mutual
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Avalon South
—— Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, Blackburn painted murals for the federally funded Public Works of Art Project. He resumed his work for Mertz
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fugi Nakamizo, New York Harbor from the Battery
Located in New York, NY
Works of Art Project in the 1930s and in the 40s, during WWII, was interned at the Japanese-American
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bangkok
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Old Dehli
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S. After the war Kingman
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
European City
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Asian City
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
San Miguel, Mexico
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
years working on commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Zurich
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
commissions for the Federal Public Works of Art Project. During WWII he created maps and charts for the O.S.S
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Jack Levine American Modernist Social Realist WPA Artist Lithograph Dinner Party
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
after its formation, Levine joined the WPA’s Federal Art Project, where he was employed intermittently
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Lithograph
Verklaete Nacht
By Mary Henry
Located in Glenview, IL
affiliated with the Federal Art Project, also in Oakland, from 1938-40. Taught at Iowa State in Ames. Then
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Through the Window
By Joseph De Martini
Located in Boothbay Harbor, ME
Joseph De Martini's successful career began in the 1930s with the WPA Federal Art Project and the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
deep” hues that were his hallmark. MacGurrin’s work with the Federal Art Project is also significant
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Lemons
By Anton Refregier
Located in Bethesda, MD
Federal Art Projects as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor. His most famous work is
Category
1950s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled: Head of A Woman 1
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
Art Projects and began exhibiting regularly from the late 1920s in the important annuals and
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Untitled: Head of A Woman 2
By George Zachary Constant
Located in New York, NY
other Federal Art Projects and began exhibiting regularly from the late 1920s in the important annuals
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Man and Woman
By Enid Bell
Located in Rego Park, NY
, 1940 to
1941, as Sculpture Supervisor for the Federal Art Project.
She began her art education in
Category
20th Century American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$4,500
Coastal Village in Massachusetts with Offshore Island, Sailboats and Houses
By Bertram Hartman
Located in Graton, CA
College for Women. As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Coastal Village in Massachusetts with offshore island, Sailboats and Island
By Bertram Hartman
Located in Graton, CA
College for Women. As part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress (later Projects
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Allegory No. 1
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
were highly prized by gallerists, collectors and his Federal Art Project supervisors. He was extremely
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Allegory No. 2
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
in the 1930s and worked as a muralist for the Federal Art Project. He also found employment designing
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Still Life
By Francis Criss
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
and muralist for the Federal Art Project of the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) – for which he
Category
1930s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wild Iris
By George Zachary Constant
Located in Rego Park, NY
Sculptors, Constant also worked in the WPA and other Federal Art Projects. He began exhibiting regularly
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Blue
By Reuben Kadish
Located in Graton, CA
California. During the 1930s he was in San Francisco and head of the mural division for the Federal Art
Category
American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Awakening Evidence
By Dorothy Morang
Located in Santa Fe, NM
joined the Federal Art Project under the supervision of Vernon Hunter. To qualify, she had to pass a
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
James Joyce
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
. With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of
Category
1920s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
“Lover
s Point, Pacific Grove”, Oil Painting circa late 1920
s by Rinaldo Cuneo
By Rinaldo Cuneo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
1915, where they were very well received. He was commissioned by the Federal Art Project
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Portrait of Ronald Colman
By Edna Reindel
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
for the Federal Art Project of the WPA, completing a number of murals on commission from 1937 to 1942
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lyric Theater, 100 Third Avenue
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
. With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of
Category
1930s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flatiron Building, Madison Square
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
. With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of
Category
1930s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos 4, 6, 8
By Berenice Abbott, 1898-1991
Located in New York, NY
. With the support of the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she created the seminal the body of
Category
1930s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Transection #15, 1972
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Cleveland, OH
Art from 1929 to 1937. He was also Director of the Federal Art Project for Northeastern Ohio, and
Category
1970s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Blooming Cereus No. 2
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Federal Art Project. During the same period she produced a series of watercolors for the Federal Art
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
John Saccaro Original Oil Painting On Canvas Signed Large Abstract Framed Art
By John Saccaro
Located in Bloomington, MN
Mural Sections of the Federal Art Project, studied at the California School of Fine Arts and taught at
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Space
By Lee Krasner
Located in Hudson, NY
Great Depression, when she worked as a painter for the WPA’s Federal Art Project in the 1930s. In 1937
$1,700
Loch Awe
By Helen Rennie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Depression of the 1930s Helen joined the ranks of the WPA in the Federal Art Project and worked on various
Two Nudes
Located in Des Plaines, IL
Civilian Conservation Corps. By 1935, McBride was working as an artist through the Federal Art Project of
Category
20th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Concussion
By Werner Drewes
Located in New York, NY
by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.
In 1936, the year he became an
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Sun Image
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
, Murry settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s and worked as a muralist for the Federal Art Project. He also
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Osprey
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
artist with the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project.
During her time in New Mexico
Category
20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Modern Abstract painting by American, Byron Browne, titled "Two Heads"
By Byron Browne
Located in Washington, DC
, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Art Project (FAP, 1935-1943) succeeded the
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Modern Abstract painting of Mother and Child by American painter, Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Washington, DC
, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Art Project (FAP, 1935-1943) succeeded the
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract painting of Circus Acrobats by American painter, Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Washington, DC
, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Art Project (FAP, 1935-1943) succeeded the
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache
Tulips
By Zama Vanessa Helder
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
.
Relocating to Spokane, Helder taught watercolor painting and lithography for the Federal Art Project at the
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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