Social Realism Social Realism Art 1930s And 1940s

By 1930, however, Gottlieb's art was allied much more closely to the tradition of social realism in the vein of Sloan, Marsh and Hopper.

He had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947. After the 1940s Shahn moved from what he called "social realism" to a "personal re...

In 1930s-1940s he created numerous portraits of his friends, professional models and sportsmen.

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) "The Tailor" 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Oil on masonite, c. 1930s Signed lower ...

Many of Rose's works dating from the 1930s and '40s have a social realism flavor about them, a concern for the plight of the working man.

SILOS American Scene WPA Depression industrial Mid Century Modern Social Realism Vincent Campanella (1915 – 2001) Silos at Night 22 1/2 x 31 inches Watercolor on paper, 1937 Signed...

Walkowitz was clearly part of the new vocabulary of American art and criticism. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the first generation Modernists lost their revolutionary cast, and as ...

Studied: Thomas Hart Benton, 1914 (at age 12) Cape Cod School of Art with Charles Hawthorne, 1918 New York School of Fine And Applied Art with Howard Giles National Academy of Design...

Studied: Thomas Hart Benton, 1914 (at age 12) Cape Cod School of Art with Charles Hawthorne, 1918 New York School of Fine And Applied Art with Howard Giles National Academy of Design...

The Cement Workers is an example of Bill's dedication to the genre of social realism. Other examples of this are seen in The Cranberry Pickers, (1926); Building New York, (1935); Sto...

Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Men Working: WPA Mural Study 17 ½ x 10 ½ inches Oil on board, c. 1940's Signed...

"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Don Freeman (1908-1978) Pay Day 20 x 30 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower right BIO Illustr...

In the 1940s, his generic subject matter was overlooked by the social realists, even though his images of common people and public places was reminiscent of the Ashcan School.

She was a realistic painter who focused on disadvantaged people in the society and social matters as an egalitarian. Her realism was thus an “inevitable realism,” motivated by an inn...

Ben Shahn Susannah and the Elders, 1947 Signed lower right Watercolor and ink on paper 22 x 29 3/4 inches Provenance The artist The Downtown Gallery, New York Felix Landau Gallery, ...

Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. After he won a traveling scholarshi...

The artist immigrated to Canada and finally settled in New York City in the 1920s where he studied art and modernism under the Art Students League directed by social realist painter ...

The artist immigrated to Canada and finally settled in New York City in the 1920s where he studied art and modernism under the Art Students League directed by social realist painter ...

His painting “The Glory of War,” exhibited in 1938, was presented as a protest to the annual Whitney Museum exhibitions which emphasized regionalism and social realism. That painting...

Krasnow’s early works, largely realist portraits and symbolic carved sculptures, are accomplished examples of social realism and Art Deco. In 1934, after a three-year stay in France,...

He had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947. After the 1940s Shahn moved from what he called "social realism" to a "personal realism."

Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature.

It led him to begin to engage with the emotive palette and gestures of German Expressionism and the social awareness and ferocity of social realism during the 1930s.

Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian/American (1894 - 1984) Nicolai Cikovsky painted figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, working in a simplified Realist manner that reflects...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Always at odds with the dominate style of the time, be it the American Scene Painting and Social Realism of the 1930s and '40s or the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s, Avery's oeu...

He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper U...

He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper U...

Pittsburgh Alleyway falls within Social Realism. It reflects the considerable influence of the Ash Can School painter, John Sloan, who was one of Bohrod’s most influential instructor...

After being associated with Surrealist circles at the beginning of the 1930's, he contributed to the early development of what was to become Socialist Realism.

Nicolai Cikovsky painted figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, working in a simplified Realist manner that reflects his earlier exposure to modern European art. Dur...

Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian/American (1894 - 1984) Nicolai Cikovsky painted figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, working in a simplified Realist manner that reflects...

Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian/American (1894 - 1984) Nicolai Cikovsky painted figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, working in a simplified Realist manner that reflects...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Blanch was fortunate to be a favorite of Juliana Force of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which acquired a half dozen of his works. His style during the 1930s and 1940s is what t...

Pellicone's early work was influenced by the Social Realist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with his paintings often featuring realistic depictions of urban scenes and working-class...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1...

During his time in Toledo, Odon Hullenkremer studied art with Wilder Darling and took courses at the University of Toledo where he developed an abiding interest in psychology and the...

Nicolai Cikovsky painted figure subjects, landscapes, portraits and still lifes, working in a simplified Realist manner that reflects his earlier exposure to modern European art. Dur...

Many artists led by Surrealist Marshall Glasier thought Curry had been provincial and limited in subject matter and style. In the late 1920's, Bohrod studied at the Art Institute of...

Monumental and quite extraordinary, this utopian scene -- all cast in a lovely, warm glow -- depicts a wide range of nude figures, mostly male, in a grassy river valley between mount...

"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in t...

The painter Iver Rose is best known for his work which brought attention to the plight of workers in Depression Era America. This painting of quarry workers in Rockport, Massachusett...

Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream ...

An extraordinary example of Art Deco painting with allegorical meaning -- like so many murals painted in the 1920s and 1930s -- this large work by William L'Engle depicts five nude m...

This classic example of American Scene painting, depicting a group of four laborers loading the harvest onto a wagon amidst the fields, has the energy and dynamic of Thomas Hart Bent...

"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...

Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...

Continuing a tradition going back decades, Josef Pieper painted a series of seaside scenes with multiple nude male figures, riding and leading horses along the shore, their strong bo...

Impressive early American impressionist dog portrait landscape painting by James Henry Hagaman (1866 - 1946). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 35 by 22 inches.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler Beach Scene at Dieppe, 1885-86 Watercolor on paper, mounted on board 8 1/2 x 5 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Miss Annie Burr Jennings Mrs. ...

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary David Atkins (1910 – 2012) Subway Train Departure 24 x 30 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1960s Signed lower r...