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WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
other editors, art historian Meyer Shapiro and critic Harold Rosenberg, were still partial to Social
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YOUNG WOMAN RED VEST Signed Lithograph, Standing Woman Hair Up, Green Dress
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987. Printed using
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SEATED WOMAN PINK SOCKS Signed Lithograph, Female Portrait, Graphite Drawing
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harvesters oil on canvas painting Spain european art
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mexican muralism and the social realism of postwar Europe. The expressive gestures, the sickle in the
Category
1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,038 Sale Price
43% Off
Portrait of a Lady with Red Fan oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
the 1930s, he cultivated social realism with scenes of Barcelona’s Paral·lel district and the working
Category
1940s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,544 Sale Price
35% Off
1961 original exhibition poster Steinlen retrospective
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in PARIS, FR
Alexandre Steinlen at the Maison de la Pensée Française in Paris. A master of social realism and Belle
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Nu Avec Phonographe
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
often associated with Social Realism. Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris, was born in
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Wood Decoy oil painting by Paul Sample
By Paul Sample
Located in Hudson, NY
also marked his work as characteristic of Social Realism.
Sample was born in 1896 as the son of a
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
September Morn - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
in his career, Hirsch was introduced to the movement of Social Realism through George Luks, who was
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GRAY AND BLACK ABSTRACT 2002 Signed Lithograph, John Ashbery Suite A WAVE Poem
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
animals in both domestic and dreamlike situations. His early work was strongly influenced by Social
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1930 Oil Painting Sea Side Sailboats American Modernist WPA Artist Morris Kantor
By Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
proponent of Social Realism, focused on issues of social, racial, and economic injustice and hardship
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YOUNG WOMAN WITH LONG HAIR Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait Drawing
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Man on the Rock - Original Bronze Sculpture by G. Migneco - Late 1900
Located in Roma, IT
, and Vedova.
Migneco's art fits into the furrow of social realism, a realism characterized by the
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
especially noted for his murals and for being the principal West Coast exponent of Social Realism. Described
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera
Bottleneck Vase with Falling Petal
By Derrick Greaves
Located in Kansas City, MO
has developed from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop
Category
1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Bottleneck Vase with Falling Petal
By Derrick Greaves
Located in Kansas City, MO
from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art, from an
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
André Minaux - Abandoned Boat - Original Lithograph
By Andre Minaux
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Galerie Claude and the same year won the Prix de la Critique.
The social realism of Homme-Témoin was in
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Minaux - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
By Andre Minaux
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
social realism of Homme-Témoin was in tune with Minaux’s own work, in which he pared away detail and
Category
1970s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1927 Oil Painting Eiffel Tower Paris American Modernist Wpa Artist Morris Kantor
By Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
was also a proponent of Social Realism, focused on issues of social, racial, and economic injustice
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ting Shao Kuang "Emerald Valley"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Color
Ting Shao Kuang "Harp"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
lessons were based on rules of Social Realism without freedom of expression and with the strict
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Color
Ting Shao Kuang "Peace
Friendship"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Ting Shao Kuang "Harp"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social Realism without
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
The Happy Farmer oil painting by Gregorio Prestopino
By Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Hudson, NY
as its director in 1954.
Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
.
Influenced strongly by the Social Realism of John Sloan, whom he knew from New York, Bohrod painted city
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Sandy"
By Robert Henri
Located in Lambertville, NJ
York City. This philosophy, translated to artwork, became known as Social Realism.
Category
1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$218,750
Ting Shao Kuang "Emerald Valley"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social
Category
19th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
"Immortality #1 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
reinterprets the history of art, reinterprets the norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Immortality #3, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
the history of art, reinterprets the norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Immortality #4, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
the history of art, reinterprets the norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"4 Red Balls, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
THE DOORWAY Signed Lithograph, Woman, Sleeping Cat, Victorian Stained Glass
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
Social Realism, depicting the hardships of Depression-era life. After joining the Art student League as a
Category
1990s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Ting Shao Kuang "Golden Age of India"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Social Realism without freedom of expression and with the strict prohibition of any foreign influences
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Draught Players Large Interior Genre Scene 19 century Irish Watercolor Painting
By Erskine Nicol RSA ARA
Located in Stockholm, SE
few artists working in Ireland at that time. Nicol’s works of social realism are significant for their
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Woman in Agony or Ecstasy, Modernist Israeli Etching
By Oded Feingersh
Located in Surfside, FL
social realism, naturalism, pop-art and surrealism. As a vagabond-artist, he draw endless influences from
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Etching
Large Jerusalem Hills Landscape Modernist Israeli Oil Painting
By Oded Feingersh
Located in Surfside, FL
social realism, naturalism, pop-art and surrealism. As a vagabond-artist, he draw endless influences from
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FIESTA ITALIANO
By Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Portland, ME
traditions of Social Realism even after the fashion had shifted toward abstraction, expressionism, and "Pop
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Post Soviet Avant Garde Judaica Rabbi Playing Violin (the Klezmer Fiddler)
By Yuri Brusovany
Located in Surfside, FL
the decedents. Being a fierce antagonist to social realism, which was an official art theme in Soviet
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Soviet Avant Garde RABBI, EXPRESSIONIST BLUE BACKGROUND, Yellow Star
By Yuri Brusovany
Located in Surfside, FL
the decedents. Being a fierce antagonist to social realism, which was an official art theme in Soviet
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Room 6, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his paintings. Ivan
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Effect-6 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Effect-5 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Effect-1 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Room #1, " Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Room #4, " Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
"Room #7" Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
norms of social realism, particularly those of monumental sculpture, and integrates them into his
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
THE BUILDERS 1985 National Urban League, 1st Edition, Men Working Construction
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Union City, NJ
protest, Lawrence aligned himself with the American school of social realism and Mexican muralist
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
PLAY Signed Lithograph, Young Woman In Tree Playing with Cats, Rainbow Sunset
By Will Barnet
Located in Union City, NJ
Social Realism, depicting the hardships of Depression-era life. After joining the Art student League as a
Category
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,700 Sale Price
20% Off
The Vagabond and His Dog oil on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
compositions.
oil on panel, Spanish art, Rosendo González Carbonell, costumbrismo art, social realism
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
$522 Sale Price
44% Off
Man with Mask
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Social Realism. Hirsch connected art with moral responsibility, arguing, “I believe that someday the
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tie Feng Jiang " Mountain Ghost"
By Tiefeng Jiang
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in secret to create his new modern style, rejecting the Red Guards and their "Social Realism".
This
Category
Late 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Parchment Paper, Color
Tie Feng Jiang "Elephant Family"
By Tiefeng Jiang
Located in Los Angeles, CA
create his new modern style, rejecting the Red Guards and their "Social Realism".
This was the beginning
Category
Late 20th Century Animal Prints
Materials
Parchment Paper, Color
1970 Silencio, Direccion Unica, One Way Spanish Political Etching Pop Art Print
By Juan Genoves
Located in Surfside, FL
late Franco Regime. Recognized for an aesthetic style rooted in Social Realism and Pop art, The
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horse at the Blacksmith
s
By Louis Henri Deluermoz
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Moreau, a figure of Symbolism, and Alexandre Roll, devoted to social realism and the great Parisian
Category
1890s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Metal
“Bouquet in Porcelain Pitcher”
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Southampton, NY
explore Social Realism, a thematic interest that reflected his growing belief that “the future of American
Category
1950s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,875 Sale Price
50% Off
Mid Century Mothers, Children Oil Painting Frank Kleinholz WPA Era NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His work was
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glazed Ceramic Sculpture Plaque WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz Couple of Lovers
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His work was strongly influenced by Max Beckmann, is a
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint, Glaze
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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.
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- 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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