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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
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
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
Board, Egg Tempera
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
Gouache, Paper
Fortune Magazine cover Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist.
Signed lower left
Category
1930s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Ink, Board
20th Century Surrealist Painting By Philip Krevoruck Wpa Era
By Philip Krevoruck
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 25.5 in W 30 in D 1 in
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
H 22.5 in W 30.75 in D 0.1 in
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
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting (WPA Era) Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
program to offer prestige to the Depression-era program. The industrial subject matter and style of his
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1930s WPA Era Modernist Colorado Mining Mountain Landscape, Autumn Landscape
By Louise Ronnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage painting by early Colorado woman artist, Louise Ronnebeck (1901-1980) of a mine in
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
H 22.25 in W 26.5 in D 0.5 in
1920s Colorado Landscape Painting, Framed Western Oil Painting, Sky and Buttes
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
offer prestige to the Depression-era program. The industrial subject matter and style of his art during
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sanctuary, Modernist Judaica Scene Oil Painting
By David Rosen (b.1912)
Located in Surfside, FL
economic turmoil. Like most other Americans, the Great Depression pummeled artists financially, leaving
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bridge Nocturne oil painting by Johann Berthelsen
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Hudson, NY
came through in his Depression-era cityscapes did not go unnoticed by the public. Berthelsen also
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
prominence as a printmaker, painter, and muralist, in the Depression era and during World War II. Sternberg
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Wollblume by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
By Shirley Lewis
Located in Atlanta, GA
she spent with her depression-era grandmother, making artistic statements from items found. Working
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic
Birth, 1940s Modernist Surrealist Abstract Figural Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
H 27.5 in W 23.25 in D 1.25 in
Salt Stone by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
By Shirley Lewis
Located in Atlanta, GA
she spent with her depression-era grandmother, making artistic statements from items found. Working
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic
Abandoned (Colorado) - Oil on Canvas, American Modern Landscape Painting
By William Sanderson
Located in Denver, CO
under the Federal Arts Projects (FAP) during the Depression era: the Graland School lobby and the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 13.25 in W 16.5 in D 0.75 in
Spring Snow (Contemporary Encaustic Painting of Sunset Behind Dark Treeline)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
Depression Era - Through a Child’s Eyes
Solo exhibit of line drawings and oil paintings. Upstairs Gallery
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
H 17.25 in W 13.25 in D 2 in
Calm Amidst Tumult (Contemporary Encaustic Painting of Pink Cherry Blossoms)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
Depression Era - Through a Child’s Eyes
Solo exhibit of line drawings and oil paintings. Upstairs Gallery
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
Winter Sky (Impressionist Style Encaustic Landscape Painting of Blue Sky)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
Waterside Hall. Adamant, Vermont, June - September 2017
The Depression Era - Through a Child’s Eyes
Solo
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
H 12.25 in W 15.25 in D 2 in
Large Bold Modernist Floral Bouquet Impasto Oil Painting Flowers Samuel Rothbort
By Samuel Rothbort
Located in Surfside, FL
villages, gaining many impressions of life in that era. Poverty as well as the political unrest of the
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Panel
View From the Park (Colorado) Mountain View Oil Landscape Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 28.75 in W 32.75 in D 1.75 in
1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, Blue Brown Orange Sage Green
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
classes toward the end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Charles Ragland Bunnell1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, Blue Brown Orange Sage Green, 1955
H 16.25 in W 20 in D 1 in
1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
Issachar Ber Ryback work of art very art deco in style. He painted scenes from depression era California
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pikes Peak, 1940s Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn, Tempera Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
H 15.5 in W 19.25 in D 1.25 in
Cripple Creek Victor Mine, Colorado Mountain Landscape, 1940 Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own Colorado Springs studio in 1949. He
Category
1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
H 10.25 in W 11.5 in D 1.5 in
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The River Swept Away All Traces (Textured Encaustic Landscape Painting, Framed)
By Regina Quinn
Located in Hudson, NY
at Waterside Hall. Adamant, Vermont, June - September 2017
The Depression Era - Through a Child’s
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel
Small Clocks, Timepieces, Mixed Media Acrylic Abstract Bright Vibrant Painting
By Chris Anderson
Located in Surfside, FL
Depression, these remarkable Americans lived through the era of the horse-drawn plow to tell their personal
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Portrait of Artist's Wife with Fruit, 1945 American Modern Oil Painting
By Hayes Lyon
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Portrait of Bessy Lyon, Artist Wife) is an oil on canvas painting by Hayes Lyon (1901
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 35.25 in W 29.25 in D 1.75 in
American Midwest Regional Portrait Oil Painting, Circle of Grant Wood, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Bowl or Depression era and appears to exude prosperity and contentment.
The work is oil on canvas
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 28 in W 26 in D 3 in
Manitou, Colorado with Pikes Peak View, 1920s Mountain Landscape Oil Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
end of the Federal Art Project during the Depression era, he began conducting classes in his own
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 28.25 in W 32.25 in D 1.75 in
Jim Shaw - Stocks Painting - Signed and Dated Oil on Canvas
By Jim Shaw
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
JIM SHAW (B. 1952)
Stocks Painting
signed and dated 'J Shaw 2007' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 32.29 in W 47.84 in D 0.4 in
Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Bold Folk Art Modernist Floral Bouquet Oil Painting Flowers in Vase Gilt Frame
By Samuel Rothbort
Located in Surfside, FL
in that era. Poverty as well as the political unrest of the times led to his immigration to America
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dawn of the Tigris, Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting, Blue Red White
Located in Denver, CO
stylistically belongs to American Regionalism that became ascendant during the Depression era in the 1930s and
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 49.5 in W 37.5 in D 2 in
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
for her metaphysical, surrealist, post-surrealist, and hard edge paintings, as well as WPA Era murals
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape
By Marcel Emile Cailliet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
paintings from the Depression Era Mid-West, but what sets Cailliet’s California landscape apart is its
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cunard-White Star Lines R.M.S. QUEEN MARY and Moet Chandon Original Advertising
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
which floats in the water. The painting is nearly complete, with only pieces of text remaining to fill
Category
1930s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
1930s American Farm Scene, Landscape Watercolor Painting Farm Buildings Windmill
By Samuel Bolton Colburn
Located in Denver, CO
Americans during the Depression era. Colburn was associated with the loose circle of intellectuals, artists
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Railroad Men's Wives
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Depression era account of working men and women.
Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Art, Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and others. She painted Depression-era
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Art, Washington, D.C., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and others. She painted Depression-era
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas.
From
the years of the Great Depression
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas.
From
the years of the Great Depression
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 30 in W 40 in D 3 in
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
newer wood frame
About the Painting
Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Paul Arndt (1881-1978) Large Scale Mountain Landscape C.1951
Located in San Francisco, CA
one of the Woodstock Impressionists at a time when Depression-Era artists were living outside "The
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plywood, Oil
"Prospect Park, Brooklyn, " Nathan Hoffman, New York City Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Port, 1949
Located in Pasadena, CA
during the Depression era of the 1930s and early 1940s, Phil Paradise was instrumental in establishing
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Noah's Ark", Monkeys in Trees w. Crocodiles, Richard DeTreville 1924 San Mateo
By Richard DeTreville
Located in Soquel, CA
depression era restaurant in San Mateo, California. This painting hung in the opening of the restaurant from
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
H 102.5 in W 55.5 in D 2.75 in
20th Century Framed and Signed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Orange, Pink, Red
Located in Denver, CO
preparation in Lincoln by twenty-nine workers employed in a Depression-era project sponsored by the federal
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
H 27.5 in W 34.25 in D 0.75 in
Circus Wagons
By Millard Sheets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the Depression Era to support himself primarily through the sale of his paintings. In addition to
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Helene Sardeau (The Artist’s Wife)
By George Biddle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
experimented with a variety of media during the WPA Era including murals, painting, and sculpture. He received
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Plaster
Mother and Son (Colt and Mare)
By Herman Maril
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"MR. HANDSOME" TEXAS LONGHORN
Located in San Antonio, TX
character or a depression era car his painting backdrop is the Lone Star State. He has been wielding a
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"PRICKLY PEAR PATH " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY CACTUS Frame Size: 21 x 25
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas.
From
the years of the Great Depression
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bluebonnet Time Hill Country Frame Size: 35 x 41 Bluebonnets, Poppies, Oak Tree
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
people would pay for a painting were still low due to
the lingering effects of the Great Depression
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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