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"Hop Scotch" Mid 20th Century Social Realism WPA Modern American Scene 1950s SF
By Anton Refregier
Located in New York, NY
"Hop Scotch" Mid 20th Century Social Realism WPA Modern American Scene 1950s SF, .30 1/4 x 22 1/4
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Job Hunters WPA Depression Era Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
Job Hunters WPA Depression Era Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism. Signed lower left
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Surveyors WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Men Working
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Surveyors WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Men Working
Jo Cain (1904
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
WPA Bronx Post Office Mural Study American Scene Social Realism 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Bronx Post Office Mural Study American Scene Social Realism 20th Century
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Social Realism WPA Era Scene Pin-Up
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Social Realism WPA Era Scene Pin-Up
Arthur Rosenman Ross
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
New York Street Scene Mid 20th Century Modern WPA American Scene Social Realism
By Philip Reisman
Located in New York, NY
New York Street Scene Mid 20th Century Modern WPA American Scene Social Realism
Philip Reisman
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Dime a Dance” American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Pin-Up Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
“Dime a Dance” American Art Deco 20th Century Modernism Pin-Up Social Realism
Arthur Rosenman Ross
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Board
"Don Quixote at the Windmill " William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in support of the
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Loggers WPA Depression Era Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
By William L
Engle
Located in New York, NY
Loggers WPA Depression Era Modern Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism
Oil on board, 24
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Bus Stop" Latin Art Social Realism Europe WPA Figurative Transportation Modern
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated "1942" lower right
Born Joseph Carl Meffert in Germany, he befriended Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Nagel in Berlin in the 1930s. Thanks to their support, Meffert produce...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
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
Canvas, Oil
Les Jardiniers
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Roma, IT
associated with Social Realism. He was known for his nudes, interiors, and landscapes.
Image Dimensions : 26
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
THE FLUTIST
Located in Los Angeles, CA
southern California during the 1930s. For many years he lived in Mexico and produced paintings of social
Category
1850s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Abstract Landscape
Located in Cotignac, FR
for his propaganda art , social realism , post impressionist landscapes and in the 1950's non
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jewish Shtetl Klezmer Musicians Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rabbi Studying Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
of a Dam was commissioned for the Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style
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
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
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
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lighting Shabbat Candles Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a
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
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
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
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
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
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
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
Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jewish Shtetl Klezmer Wedding Tanz Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jewish Shtetl Groise Macher Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Social Realist Print
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seated Woman Near A Bed, Lithograph by Raphael Soyer
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
/American Social Realism Painter. Printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rabbi, Cup of Tea, Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Social Realist Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
British Contemporary acrylic painting on canvas by Derrick Greaves
Hiroshige 1
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Smith.
His work has developed from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Little Mother - 19th Century Victorian Realism Oil Painting Charles Dickens
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
. Whilst still a pupil he began producing the kind of provocative social realism paintings which were to
Category
1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish Artist Lithograph Francisco Bores
By Francisco Bores
Located in Surfside, FL
did not fit in with the dominant informalism and social realism were finally valued.
The style of
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
considered the best representative of social realism in Spain.
In his production we must distinguish three
Category
1960s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
considered the best representative of social realism in Spain.
In his production we must distinguish three
Category
1960s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
“Cabaret Dancer”
By William Gropper
Located in Southampton, NY
by 24 inches.
William Gropper (1897-1977)
William Gropper, a major painter of Social Realism and
Category
1930s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
“Cabaret Dancer”
By William Gropper
Located in Southampton, NY
by 24 inches.
William Gropper (1897-1977)
William Gropper, a major painter of Social Realism and
Category
1930s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Summertime"
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Southampton, NY
with American Scene painting and Social Realism in New York, creating works of art that were acclaimed
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice Cream, Mid-Century Playful Oil Painting
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works were intensely personal
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1945 Pastel Drawing Girl with Flower American Modernist
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works were intensely personal
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Factory Scene WPA Mid 20th Century American Realism Cubist Industrial Modernism
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in New York, NY
, surrealism, magic realism, portraiture, social realism, abstraction, and, in the case of this work
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wedding Dancer, Shtetl Series
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
representative of Social-Realism. Throughout his life, he would be called a radical (even being subpoenaed by
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Latin American Figurative Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Monoprint Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
of Basquiat in some of his pieces and social realism.
The Chicano Art Movement represents attempts
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Pittsburgh Alleyway
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Los Angeles, CA
oriented, nostalgic and to a large extent romantic. The second type, called Social Realism, was urban
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Colorado Town)
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
painted in a variety of styles, including Cubism, Social Realism, and Hard-Edge Abstraction. His work
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Judaica Painting Bar Mitzvah Boy, Cheder Lessons
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Shepard Boy, Modern Mid-Century Israeli Painting
By William Weintraub
Located in Surfside, FL
Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted everyday people and made them powerful subjects for
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Shepard Boy, Modern Mid-Century Israeli Painting
By William Weintraub
Located in Surfside, FL
Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted everyday people and made them powerful subjects for
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Looking Out the Window, Vermont" Kyra Markham, Snowy Winter Landscape, Cat
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
Gaither. She worked for the Federal Arts Project, creating works of social realism that documented
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Tree of Life oil painting by Aaron Bohrod
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Hudson, NY
this artist: Aaron Bohrod was known for the range of styles from social realism to landscapes, though
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Li Tianqi Incorrect Shape #Iron
Located in New York, NY
the academy, the rigorous painting training based on the modeling of social realism made me
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Star Island, New Hampshire"
By Frank C. Kirk
Located in Southampton, NY
Master work in the Social Realism genre by the Russian born American artist, Frank Cohen Kirk
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Barn and Tree (Surrealist/Modernist Colorado Landscape)
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
Cubism, Social Realism, and Hard-Edge Abstraction. His work often depicts architecture, ships, nature
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ben-Zion (Ukraine, 1897-1987) circa 1930
s "Floral Still with White Vase"
By Ben-Zion
Located in SANTA FE, NM
regionalism and social realism. That painting was described as “resounding” and “forceful” by a review in the
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Earth Abides Forever (Modernist Landscape with Abandoned House, Autumn)
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
Artists.
Sanderson painted in a variety of styles, including Cubism, Social Realism, and Hard-Edge
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Haarlem Windmill, " Robert Henri, Dutch Rural Ashcan Scene, Netherlands
By Robert Henri
Located in New York, NY
, especially spirited children, and insistence that artists should adhere to social realism and give rein to
Category
1990s Ashcan School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abandoned (Colorado)
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
of styles, including Cubism, Social Realism, and Hard-Edge Abstraction. His work often depicts
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
-level as egalitarian, socialist view via social realism style painting and drawing.
Schloss became
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Find the exact social realism you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You can easily find an example made in the Expressionist style, while we also have 1 Expressionist versions to choose from as well. If you’re looking for a social realism from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right social realism for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, black, brown and blue. Finding an appealing social realism — no matter the origin — is easy, but Raphael Soyer, William Gropper, Aaron Bohrod, Daniel Ralph Celentano and Ron Croci each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Artworks like these — often created in paint, lithograph and oil paint — can elevate any room of your home. A large social realism can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller social realism, measuring 5 high and 3.44 wide, may better suit your needs.
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A social realism can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $3,000, while the lowest priced sells for $465 and the highest can go for as much as $45,000.
Questions About Social Realism
- Why is Social Realism important?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertOctober 15, 2024Social Realism is important because it was a major art movement of the 20th century that elevated everyday people as subjects and appealed to the larger public beyond elite cultural circles. While art that fits this description dates back to the 18th century with artists like William Hogarth in the UK, it became especially prominent in the 20th century between the two World Wars. Artists such as Diego Rivera, Elizabeth Catlett and José Clemente Orozco depicted the lives of laborers and working class people, drawing attention to social issues and oppressive social systems. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of Social Realist art.
- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 15, 2024In his artwork, Jacob Lawrence used Social Realism to portray the everyday lived experiences of Black Americans. His most famous work is The Migration Series, a narrative piece of 60 18-by-12-inch hardboard panels focused on the Great Migration of Black Americans from the agricultural South to the industrial North between 1910 and 1940. On 1stDibs, shop a diverse assortment of Jacob Lawrence art.
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