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Jewish Rabbi Americana Judaica Watercolor, Ink Painting WPA Art William Gropper
By William Gropper
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Size includes frame. sight size is 19 X 14 inches.
Provenance: from the collection of legendary American portrait photographer Marvin Lazarus.
Old Lower East Side of New York Orthod...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Mercury" Bronze New York City Sculpture American Art Deco WPA
Located in New York, NY
In the late 1920s, Joseph Freedlander was asked by the City of New York to design a series of bronze light posts for Fifth Avenue. The first, completed in 1931, was installed at 41s...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
H 18 in. W 9 in. D 6 in.
"Arcturus, Helsing" Modern Oil Painting WPA American Scene Denver Historical Art
By Eve Drewelowe
Located in New York, NY
"Arcturus, Helsingfors," 19 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1935, 33/30C lower right.
Provenance: Acquired from the personal collection of Jim Elkind (Lost City...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 24 in. W 21 in. D 2 in.
BOWERY Oil Painting WPA American Scene Modernist Historical Art Provincetown NYC
By William Freed
Located in New York, NY
BOWERY Oil Painting WPA American Scene Modernist Historical Art Provincetown NYC. William Freed oil on canvas
Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed first became acquainted in 1932 when...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William FreedBOWERY Oil Painting WPA American Scene Modernist Historical Art Provincetown NYC, 1930s
H 20 in. W 26 in. D 2 in.
Plaster Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist Lovers Embrace, Dancers
By George Aarons
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Size includes wood mounting.
George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1896 - died in Gloucester, Massachusetts 1980) was a distinguished sculptor who lived a...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Kupur Three American Art Deco Sculptures Male Female Figurative Modernism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Three American Male and Female Art Deco figurative sculptures, c. 1930–1940, WPA era. Silver over copper. Size. Each of the modern WPA depression era mid-century measures 15 x 8 x 6...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
H 15 in. W 8 in. D 6 in.
Negro — California WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1937, color lithograph, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil; initialed in the stone, lower right. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream w...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 10.63 in. W 8.50 in.
WPA Art Deco Ceramic Mother and Child
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A ceramic mother and child figurine done in the WPA Art Deco style. Features a felt base. Not signed or marked. It has a few minor imperfections.
Category
20th Century American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
H 11.25 in. W 5.25 in. D 3.25 in.
Plaster Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist Family w Baby Mother, Father
By George Aarons
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Size includes wood mounting.
George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1896 - died in Gloucester, Massachusetts 1980) was a distinguished sculptor who lived a...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Abstract Geometric WPA Painting Transcendental Art Modern Non Objective 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Born in Hungary, Bisttram went on to become a prolific artist creating many thousands of paintings and drawings that embraced styles from realism through abstraction. A member of the...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Encaustic
"The Chase" NYC modernism WPA American Scene Mid-Century Art Students League
By Albert Pels
Located in New York, NY
"The Chase" NYC modernism WPA American Scene Mid-Century Art Students League
Albert Pels (American, 1910 – 1998) "The Chase," 18 x 24 inches. Oil on board. Signed lower right. We ac...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
By Boris Deutsch
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles.
Works of Bo...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
Category
1950s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board
Gefilte Fish Jewish Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Art
By William Gropper
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition.
Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. A woman preparing the Sabbath Gefilte fis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Crash" Modern Oil Painting WPA American Los Angeles Scene Cubist Art Deco Cars
Located in New York, NY
"Crash" Modern Oil Painting WPA American Los Angeles Scene Cubist Art Deco Cars
Ross Dickinson "Crash," 23 x 38 inches, oil on canvas, circa 1930, signed lower right. Framed by Heyd...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ross Dickinson"Crash" Modern Oil Painting WPA American Los Angeles Scene Cubist Art Deco Cars, 1930s
H 32 in. W 47 in. D 3 in.
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting (WPA Era) Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Hudson, NY
Helen Malta (b.1912). Tattoo Parlor, ca. 1935. Oil on canvas, 20 x 33 inches. Signed lower right. Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduction rights stamp on reverse stretcher dated 10-3...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 33 in. W 20 in.
Wpa Woman Laborer woodblock print
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. (possibly a Moscow, Russia piece) signed in plate with monogram cipher mark. from the 1930s.
Abramovitz, Alb...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
H 10.25 in. W 9.5 in.
Yenta Woman, Kitchen, Jewish Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Art
By William Gropper
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition.
Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Yenta gossips in the kitchen peeling. hum...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WPA Period American Modernist Realism Oil Painting
By Samuel David Lev-Landau
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Painter, New York, N.Y. Samuel David Lev-Landau was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigrated to the United States. Trained at the Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia and studied with Sol W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 21 in. W 25.25 in.
Untitled (WPA Era Colorado Landscape with Mine)
By Louise Ronnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
Original painting by Louise Ronnebeck (1901-1980) of a mine in the mountains of Colorado, WPA Era, circa 1935. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 22 ¼ x 26 ½ inche...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
H 22.25 in. W 26.5 in. D .5 in.
1936 Woodblock Print Venus of 23rd St. Skid Row Woodcut NYC Great Depression WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
A great New york City street scene in a modernist realist style. done in the the great depression period.
Mat is 17.5x14, sheet measures 13x10 image is 10x4.75
Joseph Solman (Janua...
Category
20th Century Modern More Art
Materials
Woodcut
WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Riva Helfond (1910–2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives.
Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Paper, Ink
H 5.9 in. W 9 in.
Sephardic Jew Fez Hat Jewish Shtetl Americana Judaica Lithograph WPA Yiddish Art
By William Gropper
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Hand signed in pencil and numbered with Roman numerals 8/24. A very small edition.
Old Lower East Side of New York or East European Shtetl. Yenta gossips in the kitchen peeling. hum...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Riva Helfond (1910–2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives.
Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color
H 7 in. W 11 in.
WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Riva Helfond (1910–2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives.
Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Paper, Ink
H 7 in. W 9.2 in.
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns and carousel horses and riders that he did in the 30s and 40s. The artist uses a vib...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
H 13.25 in. W 11.25 in.
WPA Expressionist woodblock print. "The Worker"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s.
Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963
Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art a...
Category
1930s Portrait Prints
H 8.5 in. W 6 in.
Early Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Fiddler on the roof, Shtetl matchmaker
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (18...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Bus Stop" Latin Art Social Realism Europe WPA Figurative Transportation Modern
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated "1942" lower right
Born Joseph Carl Meffert in Germany, he befriended Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Nagel in Berlin in the 1930s. Thanks to their support, Meffert produce...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
WPA Art Deco Terracotta Buffalo Sculpture by Anthony Vozech, Circa 1930s
Located in Bernville, PA
WPA terracotta buffalo sculpture by Anthony Vozech, circa 1930s. Dimensions: 8” wide 20” high 22” deep. Minor wear on the bottom edge.
Anthony Vozech was an Ohio artist that did WPA...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
H 20 in. W 8 in. D 22 in.
"Coulee Dam Construction" WPA Precisionist Industrial Figurative American Scene
By Anton Refregier
Located in New York, NY
Anton Refregier painting "Coulee Dam Construction, " a WPA era industrial American Scene oil painting, The figurative work is signed on the upper right
Born in Moscow, Refregier stu...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
WPA Period "Coastal Village" American Modernist Realism Oil Painting
By Samuel David Lev-Landau
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Signed and titled in Yiddish verso.
Painter, New York, N.Y. Samuel David Lev-Landau was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigrated to the United States. Trained at the Graphic Sketch Clu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Nahum Tschacbasov was born in Baku, in the southeast of Russia. When he was eight years old, he came to America, where his family settled in Chicago.
His career, spanning more than ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stencil Painting "Tide Pool" American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Morris Shulman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Abstract Expressionist Stencil Painting Signed and dated in ink.
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied at the National Academy of D...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D'Paris WPA Female Equestrienne
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
California landscape, 'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA artist
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil landscape showing a view of several age-worn buildings near waters edge, with two sailboats making their way past, and gold and lavender hued hills in the background.
Signed low...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 18.75 in. W 25.5 in. D .13 in.
Biblical Prophet Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
H 21.25 in. W 13.25 in.
New York City Tenement Building Oil Painting Wpa Era
By Dorothy Grotz
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
American Woman Artist
Born in Philadelphia
Studied: Berlin Univ., 1929; Columbia University. (M.S., 1945); ASL, 1947.
Exhibited:
Columbia Univ. Avery Library, NYC 1950;
Van Diemen ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 22 in. W 14 in.
Paris City Scene, Portrait Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: French Paris Scene
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 37 in. W 32.75 in.
Judaica Etching Passover Seder Scene WPA Artist
By Philip Reisman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Philip Reisman, a Social Realist painter and printmaker known for his views of New
York City street life.
Fourteen of Mr. Reisman's etchings of New York life were in the show Works o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
H 11 in. W 13 in.
WPA Artist woodblock print "Letter from overseas"
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Pencil signed original limited edition woodcut woodblock print great depression era. from the 1930s.
Abramovitz, Albert 1879-1963
Born in Riga, Latvia, Abramovitz studied art a...
Category
1930s American Realist Interior Prints
H 12.4 in. W 11 in.
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at this wonderful image; elephants at the circus fro...
Category
1930s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 32 in. W 40 in. D 3 in.
Gouache Painting "Anemone Tide Pool" American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Morris Shulman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Abstract Expressionist Foliage. Anemone Tide Pool written in margin. Signed and dated in ink.
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Casein, Gouache, Archival Paper
Judaica Rabbi Portrait Oil Painting American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Morris Shulman
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League and Hans Hofmann School of Art in New ...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, 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 on canvas, circa 1935. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
By Ervin B. Nussbaum
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper.
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a joyful holiday celebration of the Torah reading in the synagogue in a sketch-like m...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
H 22.5 in. W 30.75 in. D .1 in.
"Riveting the Post" WPA Modernism Provincetown Early 20th Century Industrial Art
Located in New York, NY
"Riveting the Post" WPA Modernism Provincetown Early 20th Century Industrial Art
Gerrit Beneker (American 1882 – 1934) "Riveting the Post," 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches - image, 11 ¼ x 9 ¼...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
By Louis Wolchonok
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Industrial WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Industrial Mural Study
Located in New York, NY
Industrial WPA Mid-Century American Scene Modernism Industrial Mural Study.
A label verso titles the work "Study for Fornca Mural." The painting itself measure 24 x3 6 inches and is...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Seamstresses American Scene Modernism WPA Figurative Depression Era Realism NYC
Located in New York, NY
New York City working women are depicted in Jo Cain's figurative interior painting "Seamstresses," a fine example of 1930's - 40s American realism, modernism painted in the WPA - Dep...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 31 in. W 39 in. D 3 in.
Antique American Modernist WPA Female Portrait Interior Exhibited Oil Painting
By Anatol Shulkin
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior portrait oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Displayed in a period modernist frame. Exhibition provenance verso. Image size, 25"L ...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 28 in. W 33 in. D 2 in.
Portrait Drawing Bearded Man Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
A Judaica painting with Hebrew Calligraphy by noted Chicago Modernist. Alexander Raymond Katz (his Hungarian first name, Sandor, was anglicized to Alexander) was born in Kassa, Hunga...
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