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Figural Abstract Mid Century Modern Lithograph Portraits, Judaica, Jewish Print
By Rita Gombinski
Located in Surfside, FL
newlyweds, done in her intricate abstract style. Works in progress are spread across an old dining room
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph of a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithographic After a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Circus Reproduction Lithograph after a Drawing
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Surfside, FL
Pompidou. He produced many large public works, including .125 (at JFK Airport, 1957), Pittsburgh (Carnegie
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"PRICKLY PEAR IN BLUE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS CACTUS 34 x 46 FRAMED
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Gold Leaf Michele Oka Doner
By Michele Oka Doner
Located in Surfside, FL
followed in 1977. Works in Progress, also forsook conventional props. Oka Doner installed on the floor of
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Phoenix Bird Michele Oka Doner
By Michele Oka Doner
Located in Surfside, FL
followed in 1977. Works in Progress, also forsook conventional props. Oka Doner installed on the floor of
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Naturalistic Pastoral Country Scene of Tractor
White Cattle Egrets in a Field
Located in Houston, TX
to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked
Category
1970s Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naturalistic Red Barn and Horses in a Field Pastoral Country Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was
Category
1970s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“827 Every Man is an Island” Long Colorful Abstract Painting in Green Frame
Located in Houston, TX
but he promptly returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monumental Waylande Gregory Iron Bird Sculpture
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Palm Springs, CA
kilns had been shut down over a banker’s holiday, ruining many of his works in progress.
New Jersey
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Sculptures
"Blue Ridge" Texas Hill Country Wildflowers Bluebonnets 36 x 41 Framed
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"BIG OAK BLUES" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS 24 X 36 1957
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bluebonnets
Paintbrush" Texas Hill Country Image: 16x20 Frame: 24 x 28
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose
Category
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"CACTUS COUNTRY" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. BLOOMING PRICKLY PEAR PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bluebonnet Time Hill Country Frame Size: 35 x 41 Bluebonnets, Poppies, Oak Tree
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"SPRING CREEK" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. CANVAS 25 X 30 DATED 1951 PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Still Life of Fruit and Flowers" by Simka Simkhovitch
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Wiscasset, ME
galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration commissions in the 1930s, he completed
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Paint
Autumn
— 1920s American Modernism, Color Woodcut
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) depression-era public art projects designed to employ out
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Spring
— 1920s American Modernism, Color Woodcut
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
was one of the early artists to participate in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) depression-era
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
SILOS American Scene WPA Depression industrial Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in New York, NY
the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock Springs, Wyoming
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude drawing
By Joseph Hirsch
Located in New Orleans, LA
who came to national attention as a muralist for the Federal Works Progress Administration in the 1930
Category
1960s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large Vertical Neutral and White Toned Modern Abstract Flower Close Up
Located in Houston, TX
returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naturalistic Red Barn and River Pastoral Country Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted
Category
1970s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Classical Greco Roman Style Nude Male Torso Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration
Category
Late 20th Century Naturalistic Nude Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Large Brutalist Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Swirling Bronze Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Naturalistic Portrait Drawing of a Horse
Located in Houston, TX
Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study
Category
1940s Naturalistic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Large White and Tan Abstract Shape on Dark Brown Background Oil Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naturalistic Portrait of a Young Boy by a Red Fence Pastoral Country Painting
Located in Houston, TX
promptly returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress
Category
1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Blue and White Naturalistic Cloud Sunset Landscape Sky Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was
Category
1970s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Surrealist Vintage Colorful Rainbow Lollipop Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Vintage Colorful Gumball Candy Machine Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic Wood and Wheel Barrow Pastoral Country Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his
Category
1970s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Realist Georgia O’Keefe Style Surrealist Ram Skull Desert Painting with Flowers
Located in Houston, TX
during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Abstract Vintage Colorful Rainbow Painting with Flowers
Located in Houston, TX
Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brown and White Earth Toned Modern Organic Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Gnarled Guardian of Dry Creek" Naturalistic Forest Tree Stump Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Abstract Modern Impasto Neutral Toned Expressionist Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Orange, Yellow, and Red Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping
Category
20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Orange Warm Toned Abstract Naturalistic Tulip Painting with Green Foliage
Located in Houston, TX
Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study
Category
1970s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Earth Toned Abstract Twisted Nude Figures Sculpture and Wood Base
Located in Houston, TX
Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Bronze Abstract Triangle
Located in Houston, TX
Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
GLACIER PARK 1940s WPA Mid-Century Realism to Abstraction American Modernism
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in New York, NY
easel artist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s he painted and taught in Rock
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Pastel Drawing "The Violinist" Jewish Klezmer Musician WPA Artist
By Tully Filmus
Located in Surfside, FL
early 1930's, and worked on Works Progress
Administration projects in New York City in 1936. From 1937
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Judaica Lithograph "Winter" Jewish Hasidic Shtetl Life NY Lower East Side
By Tully Filmus
Located in Surfside, FL
studio with
Willem de Kooning in the early 1930's, and worked on Works Progress
Administration projects
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Mid Century Abstracted Derriere Sculpture
By Joe Funk
Located in Soquel, CA
"Posterior" and Number 61 is listed in the Assemblages and Ceramics list of works produced, and artist
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"American Landscape, #6, " Abstract Expressionist Landscape Mid-century Painting
By Ralph Rosenborg
Located in New York, NY
Teaching, Easel, and Mural divisions of the Works Progress Administration. While in the Mural division he
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
San Francisco Cable Car WPA Artist Adolf Dehn Modernist Art Gouache Oil Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
"Distinguished Service Rendered in Behalf of War Savings Program."
Dehn worked for the Works Progress
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
"Glow, " Gerome Kamrowski, Abstract Surrealism, Bright Pink and Yellow
By Gerome Kamrowski
Located in New York, NY
Minnesota FAP/WPA (Works Progress Administration). In 1936 he contributed “Synthetic Cubist Style” frescoes
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spun, Gerome Kamrowski, Surrealist Abstract Expressionism, Red
By Gerome Kamrowski
Located in New York, NY
mural painting division of the Minnesota FAP/WPA (Works Progress Administration). In 1936 he contributed
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Oil, Board
"Dream Woman" Gerome Kamrowski, 1940 American Surrealist Woman Watercolor
By Gerome Kamrowski
Located in New York, NY
painting division of the Minnesota FAP/WPA (Works Progress Administration). In 1936 he contributed
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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