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“Crossroads, c. 1940” WPA Polish-American Expressionist Modernist Oil Signed
By Sol Wilson
Located in Yardley, PA
“Crossroads, c. 1940” by Sol Wilson (Polish-American, 1896-1974).
This expressive painting by
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Equestrian
, WPA Murals, Kansas City Art Institute, PAFA, Horses
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
, Ulreich moved to New York and worked as a WPA artist painting murals throughout the United States. His
Category
1940s Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Illustration Board
$3,300 Sale Price
25% Off
"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
' publication, "New Masses."
Gropper's painting, Youngstown Strike, has received much attention for its strong
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Drawing Watercolor Painting Totem Column Jewish American Modernist WPA
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 Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Woodstock Landscape" Albert Heckman, WPA, Modernist, Farm, Barn, Rural Scene
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
Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
painting of prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
painting of prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Landscape
, California WPA, Corcoran, Whitney, AIC, GGIE, SFAA, LACMA
By Ellwood Graham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
profound painting, although I'm not always capable of doing it, I want a painting to breathe; I like to
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Winter" American Modernism WPA Regionalism Landscape Mid-Century Magic Realism
By Dale Nichols
Located in New York, NY
"Winter" American Modernism WPA Regionalism Landscape Mid-Century Magic Realism. 30 x 40 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pelham Bay" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern NYC Subway Transportation
Located in New York, NY
"Pelham Bay" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern NYC Subway Transportation
Daniel Ralph
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Signed WPA Style Harborscape Oil On Canvas
By Bolus
Located in Chicago, IL
Colorful impressionistic oil on canvas painting of fishing boats in a harbor. Greens, blues and
Category
Vintage 1940s American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Joseph Edward
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Estes Park Colorado American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Painting, WPA 1930s
By James Russell Sherman
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s watercolor and ink painting of Estes Park, Colorado, by American artist James Russell
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
By Fletcher Martin
Located in New York, NY
himself by painting and illustrating men in combat, rodeos, racetracks, boxing matches, and saloons
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Antonio Petruccelli
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and dated upper right
Category
1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in New York, NY
right: Mills
As one of the youngest and considered by many to be one of the most gifted WPA. Artists
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
Aaron Bohrod
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1940 American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Pushcart Tenements
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
Douglas Crockwell
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative
Estate stamp on
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940
s American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Paper
Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Watercolor with pencil painting
Rabbi Klezmer music concert
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Doctor
s Office
, WPA, San Francisco, Chouinard, SFMA, Oakland Museum, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Project, later the WPA, while also painting theatrical scenery and murals. In 1938, Murray moved to San
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Study for Long Beach" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Study for Long Beach" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
William Gropper WPA Artist Watercolor in Grisaille, circa 1932- “Uprooted”
By William Gropper
Located in Phoenix, AZ
to: Bob & Helen Garelick.
Garelick was Gropper’s Detroit dealer in the 1960's and ‘70's.
Painting
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century
Mervin M Jules (1912-1994
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bay Shanties, San Francisco
, Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
as Director at the Art Barn School until the early forties. Working with the WPA as one of the
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
By Philip Evergood
Located in New York, NY
Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting
Philip Evergood
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven WPA artists who
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"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
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
By Louis Bosa
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
Large oil on canvas
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
second book, New Lights and Old Shadows. It contained 210 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Samuel Thal (1903
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
Mervin Jules (1912
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Frederick
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
By Harry Gottlieb
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1940s WPA Watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell, Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
gray, the composition reflects the influence of WPA-era Modernism, combining industrial subject matter
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
By Gerrit Sinclair
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
The size of the
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism
Heusing (20th
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
By Gerrit Beneker
Located in New York, NY
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
"Constant Driving
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Along the Kanahawa River, West Virginia, " Ernest Fiene, WPA Coal Steamboat
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
inches
Fiene made a series of paintings, drawings and lithographs which are based on his travels through
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism. 30 x 24 inches
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Abstract American Oil WPA Color Field Abstraction Modern Non Objective
By Walter Quirt
Located in New York, NY
field during the WPA era in the 1930s.
Abstraction, 12 x 16 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed lower center
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Big City, 1948” Grand Central Station NYC Manhattan Female WPA Modernist
Located in Yardley, PA
, this painting encapsulates the organized chaos of Grand Central Terminal in NYC in the 1940s. Meltzer
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial
Joseph Solman
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Abstract American Oil WPA Color Field Abstraction Modern Non Objective
By August Mosca
Located in New York, NY
Geometric Abstract American Oil Painting WPA Color Field Abstraction Modern Non Objective.
August
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
Ernest Fiene (1894
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ginger Cat with Still Life
, American Modernist, WPA Muralist, SFAA, GGIE, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
, Risling worked on a number of substantial WPA mural projects including, in 1936 and 1937, with Edith
Category
1940s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker
By Otis Oldfield
Located in New York, NY
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker. Signed “Otis
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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