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WPA Artist woodblock print "Letter from overseas"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1938, 1940), the Union of American Artists (1940
Category
1930s American Realist Interior Prints
WPA Artist woodblock print "Letter from overseas"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1938, 1940), the Union of American Artists (1940
Category
1930s American Realist Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Biblical Prophet Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size
The New-York born artist William Gropper was a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
WPA artist Michael Lenson gouache or study of a woman
Located in Palm Springs, CA
, 1965
"WPA Artists Then and Now," Essex County YM-YWHA, NJ, October 29-November 26, 1967
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
WPA Artist Wood Carving of The Bucking Bronco
Cowboy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fantastic hand carved WPA plaque is the cowboy riding the horse.The carving is unsigned.The
Category
Vintage 1930s American Other Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
"The Count" Boxing Painting by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
Located in Birmingham, AL
the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s, and was thought to be an illustrator for The Ring
Category
Mid-20th Century American Paintings
Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
with the fast-moving, machine-driven technology of the 20th century, American artists began to explore
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jewish Family Interior Scene (The Shadchan) Rare Judaica Oil Painting WPA artist
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
evils.
Ida Abelman (1908–2002): A notable woman artist of the WPA whose lithographs, such as "Via
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Canvas
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint
El Station, Interior
NYC Subway, WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration, WPA during the Great Depression, Velonis brought the use of silkscreen printing as a fine art
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Large Modernist Silkscreen Screenprint
Under Riverside Drive
NYC WPA Artist
By Anthony Velonis
Located in Surfside, FL
the WPA around the country. It was considered very influential in encouraging artists to try this
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Lithograph Island Beach 1933 American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Gouache
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Rare Lynching Painting WPA artist Social Justice African American Americana
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
, particularly boxing. Born in New York City, Smith painted for the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Albert Kotin Abstract Expressionist Painting Nude Biomorphic Figure WPA Artist
By Albert Kotin
Located in Surfside, FL
early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
Large Bronze Stylized Female Sculpture, WPA Artist Michael Lintz, 1946
By Michael Lantz
Located in Buffalo, NY
, while working as an instructor for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), he won a competition to
Category
Vintage 1940s American Organic Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
important venue for progressive art in the city, which operated until 1933.
Katz and other Jewish artists
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
important venue for progressive art in the city, which operated until 1933.
Katz and other Jewish artists
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Early Modernist River Landscape with Trees and Mountains WPA artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judaica Pastel Drawing "The Violinist" Jewish Klezmer Musician WPA Artist
By Tully Filmus
Located in Surfside, FL
to 1939 he taught at
the American Artists School in New York and from 1938 to 1950 at the Cooper
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Mermaid, " Art Deco Mural Masterpiece by Paul Julian, WPA Artist
By Paul Hull Julian
Located in Philadelphia, PA
artists and the larger public in the 1930s. Brilliantly painted by Paul Hull Julian, famous for his
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Purim Holiday Scene Judaica Aquatint Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Pitched Battle, " Masterful Mural Painting by James Daugherty, WPA Artist
By James Daugherty
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Baroque in its teeming energy and tangled figures, this masterful mural by James Daugherty illustrated a scene from "Knickerbocker's History of New York,” the historical parody ...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana
By Abraham Harriton
Located in Surfside, FL
Harriton was a Romanian-born Jewish modernist artist and social realism painter in the United States.
Born
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
wife Sarah Jane Blakeslee. There were a number of well known jewish artists included in the WPA FSA New
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jewish Shtetl Russian Village Judaica Woodblock Print WPA Artist Hand Signed
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
and narrative American scene works. Many notable Jewish artists worked for the WPA amongst them Ben
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
Polish Born Boston Expressionist Oil Painting WPA Artist Colorful Modern Woman
By Josef Presser
Located in Surfside, FL
. Here, he would begin his career painting murals for the WPA, as well as accepting private commissions
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Modernist "Feast of Pure Reason" Aquatint Mezzotint Etching WPA Artist
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
smoking; signed in pencil lower right, edition: "Artist's Proof" lower left
Provenance: from the estate
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching, Aquatint
Refugees, World War II, Modernist Judaica Gouache Painting Jewish WPA Artist
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Surfside, FL
the American Abstract Artists. Harari learned a range of engraving techniques at the WPA, silkscreen
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Antoine Bourdelle.
Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1970
s American Abstract Expressionist Color Stain Aquatint Etching WPA Artist
By Jacob Kainen
Located in Surfside, FL
avant-garde artists in the city, especially those who shared his institutional disdain. It led him to
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mid-Century Watercolor Painting Over Lithograph WPA Artist NYC Frank Kleinholz
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Beckmann, is a late survival of the social commentary expressionism of the WPA era; His early works were
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Modernist Oil Painting Gestural Landscape WPA Artist Group of 10
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
WPA Artist Wood Hand Carved Wall Plaque W/indian On Horseback
Located in Los Angeles, CA
THIS LARGE WALL PLAQUE IS HAND CARVED WOOD WITH THE INDIAN RIDING THE HORSE.IT IS HAND CARVED WOOD AND IS IN A NEW DISTRESSED FRAME.THE CONDITION IS VERY GOOD.
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Sculptures
Materials
Pine
Spectacular Orig Watercolor Painting, New York City, 1934 by WPA Artist Sewall
By Edward Sewall
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The tiny detail on this special pairing is unbelievable. By WPA Portland Oregon artist, Ed Sewall
Category
Vintage 1930s American Other Paintings
Materials
Paper
1930 Oil Painting Sea Side Sailboats American Modernist WPA Artist Morris Kantor
By Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
artists.
and the Works Progress Administration or Work Projects Administration (WPA): He was counted
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Street Riot Oil Painting Mounted Police WPA artist Social Justice Americana Art
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
the Federal WPA Program in the 1930s and 1940s, and was thought to be an illustrator for The Ring
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
3 Jewish Men Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Engraving Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
Todros Geller (1889 – 1949) was a Jewish American artist and teacher best known as a master
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
1927 Oil Painting Eiffel Tower Paris American Modernist Wpa Artist Morris Kantor
By Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
to support artists.
and the Works Progress Administration or Work Projects Administration (WPA): He
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bronze Sculpture Abstract Brutalist Goat or Ram WPA Artist Mounted on Base
By Benedict Michael Tatti
Located in Surfside, FL
artist. He studied stone and wood carving under Louis Slobodkin at the Roerich Museum. He later attended
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Floral Oil Painting Roses, Flowers in Vase WPA Artist Nicolai Cikovsky
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. (WPA, GSA)
Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940
s Abstract Composition Jazz Lithograph Pencil Signed and Dated WPA Artist
By Konrad Cramer
Located in Surfside, FL
both educator and artist. He ran a summer school for miniature camera photography in the 1930s and
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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