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"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
Storm Over Victor, Colorado – 1940s WPA Era Oil Painting of Mountain Town
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Abstract Expressionist Flowers Oil Painting Norman Carton WPA Artist
By Norman Carton
Located in Surfside, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton was also awarded the Toppan Prize for figure painting as well as the
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Salome, " Important Art Deco Painting by Dunbar Beck, WPA Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
fire, this remarkable work was painted by Dunbar Beck, famed for his WPA and New York World's Fair
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit William Meyerowitz WPA Art
By William Meyerowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
William Meyerowitz (1887 - 1981)
Oil painting on canvas
Depicting a still life scene with fruit
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Itzhak Holtz (Judaica Master) Oil Painting Portrait John Sloan Ashcan Artist WPA
By Itshak Holtz
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Portrait of Ashcan Artist John Sloan. Signed I. Holtz.
The youngest of four children
Category
1940s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Mid Century Oil Painting Family on Fire Escape Frank Kleinholz WPA NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Frank Kleinholz (Brooklyn, 1901 - 1987)
Original oil on panel painting titled "Fire Escape", a
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Heading Home", Important WPA Social Realist Painting by Sternberg, 1944
By Charlotte Joan Sternberg
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A cross between Grant Wood and Paul Cadmus, this remarkable American regional scene painting
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
WPA Style Portrait Painting of a Gentleman, American, 1930s-1940s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait painting of Walter Levin, oil on canvas, unframed. Signed Haughton College Bickerton in
Category
Mid-20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"The Return of Timothy Pickering, " WPA Mural Study Painting, 1939
Located in Philadelphia, PA
preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts. Until it became
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Fine, WPA-style Oil Painting, 1935, by Dorothy Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
1935, when this painting was finished, and at the Revsin Gallery.
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"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
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Administration (WPA) during the depression, Solman met and worked with and befriended many great artists, like
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Bricklayer at Rest, " Monumental WPA Period Painting of Worker with Landscape
By Paul Ulen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
monumental painting of a shirtless bricklayer, resting against a curved brick niche, with a half-built brick
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
VASE WITH FLOWERS IN MIRROR Modernist Oil Painting Joseph Raskin WPA Artist
By Joseph Raskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Annual, 1930, 1936, 1938, 1939; Association American Artists, 1945 (WPA era); Corcoran Gallery biennials
Category
1940s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
famous for his paintings of sporting scenes, particularly boxing. Born in New York City, Smith painted
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixed races, African
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Modernist Oil Painting Nude Male on Beach 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, Board
Antique American School Signed WPA Black Artist Studio Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist artist studio oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude Portrait by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
for his paintings of sporting scenes, particularly boxing. Born in New York City, Smith painted for
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Circus Performers by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
painter most famous for his paintings of sporting scenes, particularly boxing. Born in New York City
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Female Nude with Deer, " Arresting Art Deco Painting by WPA Artist
By Frederick Massa
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Ticonderoga Post Office and the Pacific Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, this fairy tale-like painting
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"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
Large Modernist Oil Painting Wild Flowers in Vase WPA Artist Nicolai Cikovsky
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
, figure, still life and portrait painting, printmaking.
His mural "Irrigation," and "Gathering Dates" is
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Modernist Floral Oil Painting Roses, Flowers in Vase WPA Artist Nicolai Cikovsky
By Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
life and portrait painting, printmaking.
His mural "Irrigation," and "Gathering Dates" is at the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Family Outing with Dog (Picnic in the Park) Ben Benn Oil Painting WPA
By Ben Benn
Located in Surfside, FL
, Holland, which houses the finest Van Gogh paintings.”
He was a member of the WPA. During its eight years
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s Ruth M. Fulton WPA Abstract Impressionist Painting of Sailors on a Boat
Located in Miami, FL
1950s Ruth Fulton WPA Abstract Impressionist Painting of Sailors on a Boat
Offered for sale is a
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Consort
, Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
of the Fine Arts.
After serving in World War I, Ulreich moved to New York and worked as a WPA
Category
1950s Animal Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
American Circus Scene by WPA Artist Arthur Smith
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
famous for his paintings of sporting scenes, particularly boxing. Born in New York City, Smith painted
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Return of Thomas Pickering, " Important WPA-Period Oil Painting by Beck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Back Fence with Bird. - Mid-Century - WPA Artist
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Miami, FL
The Mid-Century mindset
As expected, 65 years ago.. people looked at art/painting a little
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Of Truth or Consequences", WPA-style Oil Painting, 1940s, Deep Pink, Van Loan
By Dorothy Van Loan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
exhibited widely, including at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1935, when this painting was
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"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
Abstract Expressionist Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish American Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
Watercolor painting of standing prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Seated Black Man, " Rare and Fine WPA-Style Painting attributed to Walker Evans
By Walker Evans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
as an aspiring writer and dabbled in painting over the years. Although this painting is believed to
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$14,000 Sale Price
20% Off
1940
s Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Board
"Two Figures, " Louis Stone, Abstract, American WPA Modernism
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
and New York. He worked for the WPA easel project (from approximately 1935-1938), painting canvases
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D
Paris WPA Female Equestrienne
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Male Youth at Sunset, " Vivid Art Deco Painting by Dunbar Beck, WPA Muralist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
successful muralists, and he painted a WPA-sponsored mural in the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
"New Hampshire Winter" Georgina Klitgaard, Female WPA, Northeastern Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
. She was a U.S. modernist, working in both oil and watercolors, but never abandoned figurative painting
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract in Saffron and Tourmaline
, New York School, WPA
By John von Wicht
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
.
In New York City in the 1930s, John Von Wicht was an active WPA artist, working beside Stuart Davis
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, WPA, American Modernist, New York
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
painting, "Eddyville, New York," was displayed in the Carnegie Institute's October–December 1941 Directions
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, Modernist, Rich Green Vegetation, WPA
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
painting, "Eddyville, New York," was displayed in the Carnegie Institute's October–December 1941 Directions
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
"Acrobat and Circus Horse, " WPA-Era Painting, Semi-Nude Male Figure, Dark Pink
By William Schulhoff 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
, this vivid painting, glowing with the colors of red clay, slate and dusty pink, captures the moment
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,125 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Outdoor Market WPA sketch
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
, 2003) was an American artist known for his WPA murals in New York City. Margolis was born in born in
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Beach Landscape" Karl Fortess, WPA, American Landscape, Sand Dunes, Clouds
Located in New York, NY
League and the Woodstock School of painting under Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Fortess is associated with the
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Beach Landscape" Karl Fortess, WPA, Dramatic, Cloudy Sky, Beach, Dunes
Located in New York, NY
League and the Woodstock School of painting under Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Fortess is associated with the
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Folk Art WPA Style Oil on Canvas Painting, Pelham Bay Park
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Charming folk depiction of Pelham Bay Park.
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Chorus Line
, Cooper Union, WPA, MoMA, Metropolitan, Smithsonian, Woman Artist
By Ruth Gikow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
holding a showing of her earliest paintings in the lobby of Greenwich Village's Eighth Street Playhouse
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mexican Siesta Pastel Drawing Ecole D
Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait Drawing Bearded Man Ecole D
Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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