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Paris during the Great Depression circa 1930, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Press Agency Keystone View Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
. Paris during the Great Depression, circa 1930. Features: Original silver gelatin print photography
Category

1930s Art Deco Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Great Depression 3, dramatic, black & white, noir, mystery, genre
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

American Regionalism Small Town Landscape in Style of Grant Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
the Great Depression, and ended in the 1940s due to the end of World War II and a lack of development
Category

Early 2000s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
By Ralph Fasanella
Located in New York, NY
enduring the harsh regimen of a Catholic reform school. During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked in
Category

1940s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Portrait of Liz, Signed Lithograph, Seated Woman Fluffy Hair, Pink Tunic, Jeans
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
hairstyle, medallion necklace. Soyer is best known for picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
By Daniel Ralph Celentano
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
the 1930s, workers began to organize in large numbers. A great wave of work stoppages in 1933 and 1934
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

"View from the Docks on the East River, New York" Bela de Tirefort, Cityscape
By Bela de Tirefort
Located in New York, NY
incisive textures, his paintings capture the structure of the city in the decades between the Great
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1936 Woodblock Print Venus of 23rd St. Skid Row Woodcut NYC Great Depression WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
A great New york City street scene in a modernist realist style. done in the the great depression
Category

20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Woodcut

Study for "The New Masses"
By Hugo Gellert
Located in Boston, MA
. With the Great Depression as his backdrop, social realist artist Hugo Gellert looked to the working
Category

20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Wax Crayon, Ink

The New Great Depression 5, dramatic, black & white, noir, mystery, genre
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Monotype, Archival Paper

Cad Med
By Doug Ohlson
Located in Boca Raton, FL
the Great Depression. As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has observed, “The staple of his
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Brady (Full Pads)
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ross
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prairie Scoreboard
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prairie Field, Looking South
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Brady (Nike)
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Brady and Tyler
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prairie Field, Looking Southeast
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prairie Flagpole
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dustin (Black Jersey)
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prairie Field, Looking Northeast
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Billy
By William Wylie
Located in New York, NY
the Great Depression. It is a fast-moving game played on an 80 x 40-yard field.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Egg Tempera

Christos J. Palios - Los Angeles Theatre, Photography 2022, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
-remaining Art Deco cinema palaces in the nation. Built in the early 1930s before the throes of the Great
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eli Jacobi "The Lion" Colored Woodcut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Design and the Grand Central School of Art. He did a large number of Prints for the WPA during the Great
Category

1940s American Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Old Jewish Lower East Side NYC Chicken Plucking Seymour Rosenthal Lithograph
By Seymour Rosenthal
Located in Surfside, FL
. Seymour’s artistry was shaped during the Great Depression. His artwork is featured, among other institutions
Category

Mid-20th Century Portrait Prints

Materials

Offset

Secluded Valley
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Lawrence, NY
in her career, the murals she created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Casein

American Artist Judaic Lithograph Synagogue Scene
By Seymour Rosenthal
Located in Surfside, FL
child of the “Great Depression”. He was a self taught artist who started drawing at the age of 5 and
Category

Mid-20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Original 'The Evergreen Playground' Easter Washington State map
Located in Spokane, WA
stains. This map was originally drawn during the Great Depression by Ed Poland, Chief Cartographer of
Category

1940s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Winter Landscape, Central Park, New York City, " Snowy December Christmas
By Bela de Tirefort
Located in New York, NY
decades between the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the growth of the New York art scene. He
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

"New York City Harbor, " Modernist View of Port and Boats on a Cloudy Day
By Bela de Tirefort
Located in New York, NY
incisive textures, his paintings capture the structure of the city in the decades between the Great
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil, Canvas

Boudoir lamp with roses
Located in Miami, FL
the factory closed three years later, a victim of the Great Depression.
Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco More Art

Materials

Glass

'Spiderboy' — 1930s American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
mm). Illustrated in 'American Art of the Great Depression: two sides of the coin', Howard E. Wooden
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"Snow at Madison Square Park, " Bela de Tirefort, New York Snow Street Scene
By Bela de Tirefort
Located in New York, NY
paintings capture the structure of the city in the decades between the Great Depression, the Second World
Category

1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

"The Capture" Blue, Red, and Green Abstract Figurative Print AP 12/30
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Houston, TX
Progress Administration, established during the Great Depression by the administration of President
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

1950s "Abstract #6" Abstract Oil Painting
By Victor Thall
Located in Arp, TX
Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thall returned to the United States during the Great Depression and
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Afternoon Milking, original 20x32 impressionist farm landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Somerset Hills during the Great Depression. Whether arriving by horse and carriage, train or motorcar, the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vincent Glinsky Alabaster Reclining Nude Sculpture c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Great Depression, Glinsky found work as a WPA artist, and also as an architectural artist. As his
Category

Mid-20th Century Art Deco Nude Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

SEATED SEAMSTRESS Signed Lithograph, Young Woman Measuring Tape Dress Form
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York City, also for creating images of everyday urban life
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Southern California Foothills oil by Anni Baldaugh
Located in Hudson, NY
became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. During the Great Depression she taught art to
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Golddigger, " Isaac Friedlander, WPA, New York City, Social Realism, 1931
By Isaac Friedlander
Located in Wiscasset, ME
land of challenge and opportunity, a nation locked in the grip of the Great Depression. His art during
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

SEATED SEAMSTRESS Signed Lithograph Young Woman, Dress Form, Rust, Lime Yellow
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York City, also for creating images of
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Abandoned Train Car
Located in San Francisco, CA
painter. He came of age in the 20s but he matured, as the country did, under the pressures of the Great
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

untitled ( Civil Rights )
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
painting contemporary life with artists John Sloan and Reginald Marsh. But it was the Great Depression that
Category

1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Walking Past The Houses" Landscape, Figures, Cape Ann Artist, Rochester, NY
By Carl Peters
Located in Rockport, MA
accolades, becoming nationally known for his impressionistic landscapes. The Great Depression drove him to
Category

20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Evening on the Pier looking into the Tunnel - Mid Century Abstract Landscape
By Marguerite Blasingame
Located in Soquel, CA
with simplified anatomy. During the Great Depression she was a Works Progress Administration artist and
Category

1940s Symbolist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Cabaret Dancer
Located in London, GB
Années Folles) of Paris in the 1920s hit an abrupt end in 1931 when the Great Depression hit the world’s
Category

1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Crayon

'The Rabbit' original woodcut engraving by Clarice George Logan
By Clarice George Logan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
American artists during the Great Depression. This print was published in 1936 as part of the Wisconsin
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut, Engraving

Christos J. Palios - Grand Lobby Lounge, Study I, 2022, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
As one of the last opulent picture-palaces built before the Great Depression in 1931, the LA
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Grand Lobby Lounge, Study II, 2022, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
As one of the last opulent picture-palaces built before the Great Depression in 1931, the LA
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Grand Lobby (Mezzanine), LA. Theatre, 2022, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
As one of the last opulent picture-palaces built before the Great Depression in 1931, the LA
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Christos J. Palios - Grand Lobby, Warner Theatre, 2022, Printed After
By Christos J. Palios
Located in Greenwich, CT
As one of the last opulent picture-palaces built before the Great Depression in 1931, the LA
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT Signed Lithograph, Contemplative Portrait, Casual
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York City, also for creating images of
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Harlem Laundry
By Jules Halfant
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on board. Notable as a Federal Arts Project artist during the Great Depression of the 1930s
Category

1930s American Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Green Painted Sea Shell Lithograph Edition 33 of 34
By Frances Nail
Located in Houston, TX
youngest child and her nickname was Tootsie. She grew up during the great depression and knew the
Category

1970s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

SEATED WOMAN BLUE JEANS Signed Lithograph Young Woman White Shirt Long Dark Hair
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York City, also for creating images of
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Young Woman With Long Hair, Signed Lithograph, Girl Braiding Her Hair Blue Skirt
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
communicate." Soyer is best known for picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait, Rust, Peach
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Union City, NJ
picturing poverty stricken victims of the Great Depression in New York City, also for creating images of
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jammin' in the Aviary III - bright, yellow, red, blue abstract acrylic on canvas
By Paul Fournier
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Fournier He was born during the Great Depression in Simcoe, Ontario. He first studied at the Ontario
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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    In Depression glass, alexandrite is a lavender color. Depending on the light conditions, the glass may sometimes have a bluish appearance. The color was not produced as frequently as the yellow, amber, pink, blue, green and crystal varieties. Shop a selection of Depression glass on 1stDibs.
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