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The Happy Inlaw, Oil Painting
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind.
Much of Kish's work, for the FAP
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Impressionist Oil Painting Provincetown Cape Cod Massachusetts
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in Portland, OR
portraits, which included not only the industrial portraits of workers but also many paintings of friends
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Harvesters oil on canvas painting Spain european art
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
expressive realism, sculptural figures, and powerful compositions.
His paintings, featuring rural workers
Category
1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,045 Sale Price
43% Off
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Traditional Seaweed Harvesting Scene
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Traditional Seaweed Harvesting Scene
By Fanch Lel
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$473 Sale Price
39% Off
"The Fire Door", Expressionist, Interior, Factory, Red, Blue, Teal, Oil Painting
By Catherine Picard-Gibbs
Located in Franklin, MA
the factory hallway where a suggestion of a factory worker is sketched. This dynamic painting is
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Clown Surrealist Oil Painting Maurice Kish WPA Artist American Modernist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind.
Much of Kish's work, for the FAP
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Social Worker #11 - Colorful Figurative Original Painting
By Fabio Coruzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind.
Much of Kish's work, for the FAP
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clown, Early 20th Century Playful Oil Painting on Board
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Barn
Dark Atmospheric painting of a welsh landscape, building, hills
By Will Roberts
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Red Barn' by Will Roberts. A Dark Atmospheric painting of a welsh landscape, with a building with
Category
20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Preacher Rabbi "Der Maggid" Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Luna Park, became a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the Social Realists
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
Luna Park, became a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there
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
symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the Social Realists
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Girl with Basket of Flowers -British 18thC Old Master oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This charming 18th century Old Master cartouche portrait oil painting is attributed to the circle
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,193 Sale Price
20% Off
Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
affection for that rambly grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind.
Much of
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
affection for that rambly grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind.
Much of
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 19th C Italian Venetian Oil Painting w/ Murano Beads
St. Mark’s Lion
Located in Katonah, NY
Venetian Workers' Society), this oil painting is a rare blend of craftsmanship and cultural heritage
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
The Protestor
Located in London, GB
messages - for example, depicting a protesting worker, as in this painting.
The WPA was an extensive
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provincetown Black Americana Fish Market Sellers
By Sol Wilson
Located in New York, NY
a man's life with nature. He is best known for his landscapes, and paintings of workers or fisherman
Category
1960s Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
By Georges Rouault
Located in Dallas, TX
amongst modernists who wanted to represent the lives of "ordinary" workers, Rouault's prostitute paintings
Category
1930s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Woman Listening" Honore Sharrer, Magical Realism Landscape with Flora
Figure
By Honore Sharrer
Located in New York, NY
, Workers and Paintings (1943). At a time when most artists were moving into abstraction, she chose to paint
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist’s Union which had the goal of advancing artists’ position as “worker.” Mark’s painting, Restaurant
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Modernist River Landscape with Trees and Mountains WPA artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flag, Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001 by David Graham, C-Print
By David Graham
Located in Denton, TX
photograph. This photograph depicts workers painting a massive American Flag mural on the side of a brick
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
American Mid Century Copy of "The Statue of Liberty" (1946), by Norman Rockwell
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a 20th century oil painting depicting workers repairing the statue of liberty\'s torch
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Georges Rouault Portrait de Marie Thérèse Bonney
By Georges Rouault
Located in Dallas, TX
amongst modernists who wanted to represent the lives of "ordinary" workers, Rouault's prostitute paintings
Category
Vintage 1930s French Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint
Niberg Abbey “Working Men” 1940’s New York Scene
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful evocative painting of workers by the noted New York Artist Niberg Abbey (1920-1990
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Quarry Men, " Striking Art Deco-WPA Depiction of 1930s Laborers, Rockport
By Iver Rose
Located in Philadelphia, PA
in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusetts, is an
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Lunchroom Conversations, " Glimpse of 1920s Black Social Life in Philadelphia
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Worker," exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was admired by Eleanor Roosevelt. This painting is
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Portrait Sketch by Philadelphia artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Eleanor Roosevelt selected his painting Young Worker for
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Sketch of a Man with Mustache and Hat by Philadelphia Artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
his painting Young Worker for the permanent collection of the White House. Bloch also organized the
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Profile Portrait by Philadelphia Artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
socialist magazine The New Masses in 1934, the year Eleanor Roosevelt selected his painting Young Worker for
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Portrait of a Man by Philadelphia artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
his painting Young Worker for the permanent collection of the White House. Bloch also organized the
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
cousin, Romare Bearden (right), discussing one of his paintings, Cotton Workers, in 1944. Both were
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Khamsa II (Yasamine)
By Aubrey Roemer
Located in New York, NY
with life jacket swatches and emergency blankets from the island, the painting was created by tracing
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Khamsa I (Ali)
By Aubrey Roemer
Located in New York, NY
life jacket swatches and emergency blankets from the island, the painting was created by tracing the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Khamsa III (Moria)
By Aubrey Roemer
Located in New York, NY
projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
A Bed to Lie In
By Aubrey Roemer
Located in New York, NY
projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Hammer and Anvil, Oil Painting
By Onelio Marrero
Located in San Francisco, CA
/>Words that describe this painting: blacksmith, metal, worker, interior, anvil, man, fire
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art
Materials
Oil
Les Deux Amoureux, Musee de Lyon, Lithograph, 1955
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
. Leger glorified workers in his paintings, as he saw them as the true heroes of the modern Industrial Age
Category
1950s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE, HELENA, AR 1991.
By James Perry Walker
Located in Portland, ME
Silver print, 1991. A beautiful and haunting portrait of a worker dressed for painting, or removing paint
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fine German 19th Century Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Potpourri Urn Vase
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the King that he could make porcelain. Böttger refined the formula and with some Dutch co-workers
Category
Antique 19th Century German Regency Revival Planters, Cachepots and Jard...
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
$12,950 Sale Price
31% Off
Emile, Haitian Artist, Naivist School, Oil on Canvas, 1970s, Local Workers
Located in København, Copenhagen
Emile, Haitian artist. Naivist school. Oil on canvas, 1970s.
Local workers walking by the river
Category
Vintage 1970s Haitian Paintings
Workers
By Philip Buller
Located in Park City, UT
PHILIP BULLER is a figurative painter who is known for his historic, large scale paintings and
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$19,500
Untitled (Dock Workers)
By Miron Sokole
Located in Bethesda, MD
.
During the 1930's & 1940's Miron Sokole's paintings were shown in competition with the best artists of
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
Circus Workers
By Albert Gold
Located in New York, NY
a group of large oil paintings based on his war drawings.
He taught at the Philadelphia Museum
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The Worker - Original Haitian Oil Painting Framed
By Pielle
Located in Haverstraw, NY
This framed original vertical 39"x29" depicts a "Neg Combit" oil on canvas signed by Haitian contemporary artist Pielle.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Workers and fishers
By Maximilien Luce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
It is two side painting. Framed
Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941) (France) is an artist born in 1858 The
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oyster Dock Worker
By Carol Devereaux
Located in San Antonio, TX
known for her loose painterly paintings of portraits, figures and landscapes.
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
3 Hard Workers
By Mike Swaney
Located in New York, NY
Fountainhead Residency in Miami and in the summer of 2010 he was shortlisted for the Guasch Coranty Painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Brut Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Boat Workers, Sausalito
By Helen Rousseau
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed l/r: H. Rousseau
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
The Worker by Anthony Fazzinga
Located in MADRID, ES
a
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
The Worker Bee by Jean Dolande
Located in MADRID, ES
The Worker Bee by Jean Dolande
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Workers" by Jessica Rice
By Jessica Rice
Located in New York, NY
"Workers", 1984 by Jessica Rice (b.1941, Belgium)
Bio:
Jessica Rice ,nee Jessica Patricia
Category
Late 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$23,000
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