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Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
view of palms and the ocean.
Social Call
Estate Edition
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Category
1970s Realist Nude Photography
Materials
Lambda
HARBORLIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL 1981 Rare Vintage Art Poster Abstract Jazz Musicians
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
Grosz, beginning his artistic career as a social realist in the 1930s. He shifted to abstraction in the
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
Paul Meltsner, Portrait of a Youth, American Modernist Realism O/C, c. 1940
Located in New York, NY
social realist style, won approval from everyday collectors as well as museums. His paintings found their
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Ink Drawing Man in Suit and Hat with Nude
By Jonathan Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Rome, Boston University, and the Maryland Institute, among others. The son of famed Social Realist
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
The Rabbit
original woodcut engraving by Clarice George Logan
By Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
distraught and dirty, though the image nonetheless falls into the Social Realist category that dominated
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
"Original Joseph Stella Drawing" - 20th Century Portrait Pencil Drawing
By Joseph Stella
Located in New Orleans, LA
to New York City in 1896. He made a name for himself in the early 1900's as a Social-Realist
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
NEW DREAMS Signed Lithograph, Young Black Girl Portrait, Black History
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW DREAMS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, American social
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Art Deco Abstract Oil Painting by Burr Singer , 20th Century
By Burr Singer
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
, riding on buses, and in other Social Realist scenes.
Bernice Lee Singer was born in St. Louis, Missouri
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poolside Social, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Sp...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Social, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Sp...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Social, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Sp...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Social, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Sp...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Social, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Sp...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Aegean XI
By Jacob Kainen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Kainen took a liking to social realist painting. However, his influences from his personal relationships
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$27,500
EVENING THOUGHTS Signed Lithograph, Young Black Woman, Color Collage Portrait
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in Union City, NJ
EVENING THOUGHTS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, social
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
NEW DREAMS Original Lithograph, Black History, African American Women
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW DREAMS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, social realist
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Femme et Homards" (Woman with Lobsters), 1948 -André Minaux (French, 1923-1986)
By Andre Minaux
Located in Berlin, MD
Behold a mid-century marvel by André Minaux, a titan of the French School whose stylized Social
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and
Category
1960s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Victorian Landscape Classic Framed Oil Painting Children on the Beach Cornwall
By John Robertson Reid
Located in ludlow, GB
schools before moving to Cornwall and later London.
He became interested in the social-realist movement
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Standing Female Nude
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his
Category
1950s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Slim Aarons
Social Call
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1972—Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
Social Call
30 x 40 inches
Category
1970s Realist Nude Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nude on a Stool
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through
Category
1970s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Slim Aarons
Social Call
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1972—Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
Slim Aarons
Social Call
Category
1970s Realist Nude Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nude Reclining on a Mat
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Walnut Shells
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Bristol, CT
. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Minou-Study of Head
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
span the various "movements" of their era, from his early social realist work to his final signature
Category
1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Poderes" Contemporary Realistic Figurative Red Toned Social Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
artist who adapts real-life picture of economic, social and cultural life on the island of his birth with
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
EVENING THOUGHTS Signed Lithograph, Young Black Woman, Color Collage Portrait
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in Union City, NJ
social realist artist, ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914-2005) printed in 2002 at J K Fine Art Editions Co. from hand
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Herbert Ferber, Abstract Expressionist sculptural study signed framed Provenance
By Herbert Ferber
Located in New York, NY
a particularly social-realist turn with his interest in the changing social, political, and economic
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
City Park, Winter
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Herbert Heyel
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rocks and Sea
By Paul Burlin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
, Paul Berlin was a Social Realist for most of his career, influenced at first by the Ashcan School and
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
several others venues in future years. His themes include American views, Great Depression and Social
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
several others venues in future years. His themes include American views, Great Depression and Social
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
several others venues in future years. His themes include American views, Great Depression and Social
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
several others venues in future years. His themes include American views, Great Depression and Social
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
several others venues in future years. His themes include American views, Great Depression and Social
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
the realist styles of Sloan and Henri, but he maintained his artistic focus on aspects of the social
Category
1910s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Wood Decoy oil painting by Paul Sample
By Paul Sample
Located in Hudson, NY
Mexican social realist David Alfaro Siqueiros and other artists, he produced a mural for the Chouinard Art
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important American Social Documentary Photograph Milton Rogovin Rare Original 60
By Milton Rogovin
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gelatin silver print by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
YOUNG WOMAN PINK BLOUSE Signed Lithograph, Portrait Drawing, Social Realism
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
Work on paper by Maximilien Luce titled Ouvrier au Travail
By Maximilien Luce
Located in London, GB
style, and this social realist aspect differentiated him from many of his fellow Neo-Impressionists
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
"Meditation, " Figure
Farm Tool Linoleum Cut signed by Schomer Lichtner
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
palettes brightened and warmed. Both fell under the spell of the Mexican social realists, notably Diego
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Golddigger, " Isaac Friedlander, WPA, New York City, Social Realism, 1931
By Isaac Friedlander
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Isaac Friedlander was born in 1890 in Mitau, Latvia. He studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Rome—the only formal art training he would ever have. After the overthrow o...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Pelham Bay" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern NYC Subway Transportation
Located in New York, NY
"Pelham Bay" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern NYC Subway Transportation
Daniel Ralph
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
freedom and basic human rights.
Bendor Mark was an American modernist and social realist painter
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las ...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Dancers Litho by Moses Soyer
By Moses Soyer
Located in New York, NY
right
Dedicated to art expression with social-realist themes of the Depression Era in America, Moses
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Lithograph Poster Robert Gwathmey Terry Dintenfass Gallery NYC
By Robert Gwathmey
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Gwathmey (January 24, 1903 – September 21, 1988) was an American social realist painter. His
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Study for Long Beach" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Study for Long Beach" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
By Gerrit Sinclair
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
The Inlet
By Paul Burlin
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Social Realist for most of his career, influenced at first by the Ashcan School and later by Cubism. His
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$11,500
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
By Isabel Bishop
Located in New York, NY
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
Isabel Bishop
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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