Wpa Railroad Art
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
$11,500
H 29 in W 35 in D 3 in
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
$5,000
H 43 in W 34 in D 2 in
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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
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Mid Century Interior Scene Animals Figures Rare Cityscape Oil Painting 1963
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic MidCentury interior scene painted in 1963 and signed illegibly.
This work comes in a contemporary wood frame.
Category
1960s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century pair of French townscape oil paintings
By Henry Schafer
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
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Henry Schafer
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Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
"Late Afternoon, Columbus Avenue, New York", impasto oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed verso (u...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative 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 (1907 – 1994)
Mixing Mortar
12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches (sight)
Framed 19 1/2 X 21 3/4 in...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"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 Oldfield” lower left. 14 x 12 inches.
Exhibited: Galerie des Beaux Arts, San Francisco...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wild Pilgrimage
(Contemplation) —
Story Without Words
Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Wild Pilgrimage', No. 26, wood engraving, 1932, edition not stated but very small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/16 to 3 3/16 inches)...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$750
H 5 in W 4.5 in D 0.01 in
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 – 1970)
Street Life Under the EL
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed upper...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Buchholz (1901-1983)
WW2 Aircraft Factory
18 x 24 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1940s
Signed l...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Illuminated Vanity Together Mirror with Stool Paramount Theater Boston
Located in Westport, CT
Art Deco acid etched Illuminated Vanity with aluminum trim attached to Vanity with illuminated bottom column, original aluminum stool.
From the women’s powder room Paramount Theater...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Vanities
Materials
Aluminum
$28,000 / set
H 61 in W 24 in D 22 in
"A Toast" Louis Charles Moeller, American 19th Century Realist Genre Painting
Located in New York, NY
Louis Charles Moeller
A Toast
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches
Louis Charles Moeller was a master of American genre painting. His meticulously detailed, highly finish...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Factory Worker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"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 (1890 – 1955)
Parade
20 x 15 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower right
Fram...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$16,500
H 26 in W 21 in D 1 in
Pipe and Brawn
— WPA Era American Realism
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'Pipe and Brawn,' 1937, lithograph, edition 40. Signed and annotated 'Ed/40' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margin...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right
Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$5,500
H 17 in W 15 in D 2 in
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
By Fletcher Martin
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin
Lunch Break, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches
When Fletcher Martin died in 1979, the New York Times entitled his obituary “Artist o...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,500
H 36.63 in W 42.25 in
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