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Selection of Three WPA Era Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
Group of Three WPA Era Paintings, American, circa 1930s-1950s.
From left to right, they are:
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Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$550 Sale Price / item
83% Off
Tugboat WPA era painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
an interest in art at an early age. At 15 years old he turned professional by painting murals for a
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Provincetown Dock Scene, " WPA-Era Painting w/ Fishermen by Sterne in Red
Blue
By Maurice Sterne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb example of WPA-era painting that celebrates the American worker, this dockside scene in
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"On the Dock" WPA Era Painting by William Sharp
By William Sharp
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, estate sigend on the reverse, presented in a simple frame measuring 21.375" x 24.375" overall.
William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where h...
Category
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"Labor", Handsome WPA-Era Painting with Nudes by Muralist Lichtenauer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
this easel painting -- with its frieze-like array of nude and Classically dressed figures stretching
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Haywagon, " Charming Art Deco-WPA Era Painting with Folk Art Influence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This remarkable oil painting, clearly influenced by American Folk Art, Art Deco stylization and the
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Under the El", WPA-Era Painting of Philadelphia Market by Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly painted in a palette of canary yellow, orange-red, browns and blues, this WPA-period
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Acrobat and Circus Horse, " WPA-Era Painting, Semi-Nude Male Figure, Dark Pink
By William Schulhoff 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when the circus provided an affordable and exotic form of entertainment for the Everyman
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,125 Sale Price
25% Off
"Georgia Moonshiner, c. 1935" by Athos Menaboni (1895-1990) American WPA Era Oil
Located in Yardley, PA
A fantastic WPA-era painting of a Georgia moonshiner by famed Italian-American artist Athos
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
painted floral designs on vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
By Ervin B. Nussbaum
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper.
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Modernist Oil Painting the Shop Window NYC 1940s WPA era
By Maurice Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
El Pulsa de México, an English-language magazine. After that time, he dedicated himself to painting
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dennis Burlingame, WPA Era, Circus Sideshow "SnakeCharmer" Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist painting of a circus by Dennis Meighan Burlingame (1901 - 1964). Oil
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Cover. Sept 1933 Illustration American Modern WPA Era
Antonio
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
New York branch of the WPA graphics division.
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
By Joseph Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole.
Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew.
Birth place: Baltimore
artist, blo...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Mothers, Children Oil Painting Frank Kleinholz WPA Era NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Frank Kleinholz (Brooklyn, 1901 - 1987)
Mothers with children oil on canvas painting
Frame: 27 X
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Storm Over Victor, Colorado – 1940s WPA Era Oil Painting of Mountain Town
Located in Denver, CO
Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape with houses, trees, and clouds. Presented in a custom
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting WPA Era Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an artist. Upon arrival at
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Manhattan glass factory where he painted floral designs on vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple Dancing
, American Folk Art Figural Oil, WPA era
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
figurative painting filled with compressed energy and an atmosphere of psychological ambiguity with the two
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
WPA Era Watercolor Painting of New York Ice Skaters by Ida York Abelman
Located in Peabody, MA
WPA era scene of skaters on a pond by the New York artist Ida York Abelman (1908-2002) is just in
Category
Vintage 1930s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Man Seated on Front Porch (WPA Social Realist Era Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
influenced by the work of Thomas Hart Benton as well as early 20th century German Expressionist painting. The
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
& painting, New York Hospital Lg., 1963-64.
Provenance: Directly from the estate of Irma Sway, wife of
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
., 1972; also medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings.
Bernard Gussow was
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Church in Leadville, Colorado, 1930s Framed Landscape Watercolor
Ink Painting
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
This rare, original WPA-era painting, Church in Leadville (1938), was created by renowned Colorado
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era. 10 x 11 inches oil
Category
1920s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era
By Stephen Csoka
Located in New York, NY
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era. The canvas
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century
Ruth A. Haven Gay
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing.
Study to Scale
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Art Week Poster Design American Scene Modern c. 1930s WPA Era Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lower Manhattan Cityscape American Artist WPA Era NY School c. 1930 Henry Ensol
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern 1930's oil painting by WPA era American artist Henry Ensol. This work comes in
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Cecil Bell (1906
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cincinnati Ohio Ida Street cityscape drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg., 1963-64.
Provenance
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
By Ralph Fasanella
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now
Category
1940s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Don Freeman (1908
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cincinnati Ohio cityscape drawing WPA era Eden Parks Drive
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
medical illustrator in science journals. Teaching: instructor of drawing & painting, New York Hospital Lg
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Vision of Angels, " Important Night-Time Scene, WPA Era, African American Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
other painters in the period, such as Rockwell Kent and Marsden Hartley. The painting is executed on
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
"500 LB Lady, " Colorful and Charming WPA-Era Carnival Scene by Lincoln
Located in Philadelphia, PA
artists, jugglers and animals in piquant detail. This painting retains a remnant of its exhibition label
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
"Lying on the Sand, " WPA-Era Atmospheric Beach Scene with Male
Female Bathers
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus and many other painters loved to capture the joy and
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
"Pueblos", Classic WPA-Era Mural Study with Native Americans for Los Angeles, CA
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Tending the Nets a c1930 WPA era watercolor by Sculptor and Painter Albert Wein.
By Albert W. Wein
Located in Southampton, NJ
relates to his early, cubistic sculptures. A masterful WPA-era watercolor that exhibits Wein's cubist
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paint, Paper
Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century
By Konrad Cramer
Located in New York, NY
Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century, Sight size is 16 x
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social
John Ruggles (1907-1991
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century WPA Era Woman Artist Children
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century WPA Era Woman Artist Children
Winnie Borne Sherman
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Board
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There is a broad range of wpa era paintings for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Modern, Abstract and Impressionist versions of these works for sale. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add wpa era paintings that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, brown, black, beige and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Albert Sway, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Stephen Csoka, Harry Gottlieb and Maurice Kish are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paint, oil paint and canvas — can elevate any room of your home.
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