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Head Study, 1930
By John Sloan
Located in Missouri, MO
York, pioneering the Social Realist movement with Robert Henri and his circle. He was also an
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Price Upon Request
French Moonlit Landscape with Brushwood Gatherer (1872)
Located in Stockholm, SE
moonlit scene reflects a social-realist attention to humble rural life. Before electrification, gathering
Category
1870s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
period, with its dark colors and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Preacher Rabbi "Der Maggid" Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the urban
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
period, with its dark colors and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Proud Chimney Sweep Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
period, with its dark colors and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Klezmer Musicians Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the urban
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watercolor Painting Road Signs, Load Limit, Aaron Bohrod WPA Artist Chicago Art
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Surfside, FL
important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Factory Boy with Locomotive" Paul Meltsner, 1930s Working WPA Portrait
By Paul Meltsner
Located in New York, NY
and he identified with the people whom he depicted. While some social realist artists of the time were
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
period, with its dark colors and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas
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
, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clown, Early 20th Century Playful Oil Painting on Board
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Fir Tree, " Original Color Silkscreen signed by Ruth Grotenrath
By Ruth Grotenrath
Located in Milwaukee, WI
movement away from the influences of the German academies in Wisconsin. Being part of the Social Realist
Category
1950s Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
"Pine Tree, " Offset Black
White Lithograph by Ruth Grotenrath
By Ruth Grotenrath
Located in Milwaukee, WI
influences of the German academies in Wisconsin. Being part of the Social Realist movement of the 1930’s she
Category
1960s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Floating Clouds - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
be drawn with the Social Realist propaganda posters of earlier eras of communism.
YUE MINJUN
Yue Min
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$6,821 Sale Price
49% Off
The Evening of Life - Interior Portrait - British 1906 Newlyn Sch oil painting
By Walter Langley
Located in Hagley, England
noted for his social realist portrayals of working class figures, particularly fishermen and their
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$51,350 Sale Price
20% Off
French Village Landscape, Trees and The Square, Gassin.
Located in Cotignac, FR
on to the Social Realist subjects which he also chose to portray in his graphic works and painted
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Mothu et Doria: A 19th C. Lithograph from Les Maitres de l
Affiche by Steinlen
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Alamo, CA
released to subscribers over a period of five years. . A singing duo in Aristide Bruant's social-realist
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait Of A Welsh Coal Miner 1970s Mixed Media Artwork Mining In South Wales
By Jack Crabtree
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
much thought of as Welsh. He is best known for his social realist work of the 1970s and in particular
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Israeli Expressionist Orientalist Oil Painting Draped Child Kibbutz Art
By William Weintraub
Located in Surfside, FL
individuals from art history's past. However, styles like Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
“Untitled”
By James Brooks
Located in Southampton, NY
flying, from early mythology to the latest innovations, in a clean, Social Realist style.
From 1942 to
Category
1960s Post-Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Starry Night - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
be drawn with the Social Realist propaganda posters of earlier eras of communism.
YUE MINJUN
Yue Min
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$4,926 Sale Price
20% Off
"Untitled" Albert Eugene Gallatin, Mid-Century Abstract, Red and Blue, Geometric
By Albert Eugene Gallatin
Located in New York, NY
struggle for life," so popular among Social Realists, had no place in modern art.
In December 1942, New
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Carving William Pellicone
Located in Surfside, FL
early work was influenced by the Social Realist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with his paintings
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
O
Tannenbaum
original color silkscreen signed on verso, Christmas tree, winter
By Ruth Grotenrath
Located in Milwaukee, WI
movement away from the influences of the German academies in Wisconsin. Being part of the Social Realist
Category
1940s Expressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
Rare Israeli Modernist Figurative Abstract Gouache Painting Yosl Bergner
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionist mode using a low-toned palette, they were among the first social realist pictures done in
Category
20th Century Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
1936 Lithograph Soldiers in battle World War I small edition
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World
s Fair WPA Painting
By Victor Michail Arnautoff
Located in New York, NY
Francisco Artists and Writers Union. His style was generally more subtle than Rivera's and other social
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Tempera
Israeli Expressionist Yosl Bergner Modernist Lithograph
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
social realist pictures done in Australia. This came from an important collection that included works by
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Israeli Expressionist Yosl Bergner Modernist Lithograph
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
social realist pictures done in Australia. This came from an important collection that included works by
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Israeli Expressionist Yosl Bergner Modernist Lithograph
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
social realist pictures done in Australia. This came from an important collection that included works by
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Watercolor Painting Drawing Pots, Pans
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
among the first social realist pictures done in Australia. This came from an important collection that
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
1959 Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Color Woodcut Woodblock Print
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionist mode using a low-toned palette, they were among the first social realist pictures done in
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Play at The Plate, Sporting Scene
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
“Social Realist” that have dogged him and his circle for decades don’t shed much light on the paintings
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Railway Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
and its flora; and 4) social realist works which explore the struggles, hopes and shortcomings of our
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Israeli Expressionist Oil Painting Yosl Bergner Modernist Abstract Composition
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
, they were among the first social realist pictures done in Australia. Bergner has works in the Jewish
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Plant-like
By James Brooks
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
in the American West and Southwest, painting in a Social Realist style.
Between 1936 and 1942, he
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Farmer, " Portrait Linoleum Cut signed by Schomer Lichtner
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
fell under the spell of the Mexican social realists, notably Diego Rivera, and modernists such as
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
Man in Raincoat, Vintage Modern Watercolor Painting
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
labels “Realist” and “Social Realist” that have dogged him and his circle for decades don’t shed much
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist OIl Painting Kitchen Bottles Coffee, Vase
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionist mode using a low-toned palette, they were among the first social realist pictures done in
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
Shot on Goal, Sporting Scene
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
“Social Realist” that have dogged him and his circle for decades don’t shed much light on the paintings
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1936 Lithograph Interregnum Portfolio Windblown Man Small Edition Weimar Germany
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1936 Lithograph Interregnum Street Riot Protest Small Edition Weimar Germany
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1936 Lithograph Interregnum, Cigar, Kid w Toy Gun, Small Edition Weimar Germany
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1936 Lithograph Interregnum Portfolio Butcher Shop Small Edition Weimar Germany
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mural Studies, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco WPA American Modernism 1930s
By Frank Van Sloun
Located in New York, NY
, who was promoting Social Realists subjects of of everyday people going about their ordinary, less-than
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera
Modernist Family Outing with Dog (Picnic in the Park) Ben Benn Oil Painting WPA
By Ben Benn
Located in Surfside, FL
depicted urban scenes, yet, unlike the Social Realists, his work was more an affirmation than a critical
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Lithograph From Portfolio - Levana
Our Ladies Of Sorrow
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ben Shahn Original Hand Signed Litho WPA Artist Rilke Poem Lithograph Portfolio
By Ben Shahn
Located in Surfside, FL
among social realists.
Although Shahn attended New York University as a biology student in 1919, he went
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large George Grosz 1923 Lithograph Die Rauber German Expressionism WPA Realism
By George Grosz
Located in Surfside, FL
, the artists influenced by his work included the social realists Ben Shahn and William Gropper.
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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