Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
In this haunting, surreal oil on canvas painting, a train platform rises above assembled automobiles that are parked below a bridge in this transportation minded urban cityscape. At the top, a seemingly living cathedral rises into the night. Captured with oils on canvas in a dark haunting color palette, the dramatic impasto technique is impressive and everything […]
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: $2,500.00
The orginal painting takes inspiration from the suffering Burne Hogarth saw growing up in the Depression and is influenced by the WPA regionalist movement.
Artist: Burne Hogarth
Price: $8,500.00
A sleepy NYC cityscape scene is captured with oils on canvas-board in a dark color palette in this work by Alfred Statler dating to 1946.
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: Sold
A very well executed WPA in aesthetic moody tonalist 1930s to early 1940s fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. The artist was a Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Levitz's Social Realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on masonite painting shows a New […]
Artist: Jack Levitz
Price: Sold
A bustling street scene of the artist's native Brooklyn New York, with tenements and street vendors on view on a picturesque busy New York corner. The painting is signed lower left F. Krieger, and was painted in a regionalist, WPA aesthetic in the 1930s by Florence Krieger, a well listed and exhibited Brooklyn artist who worked in a variety of mediums. Painting is framed in a rough hewn wide profile wood frame and is ready to hang.
Artist: Florence Krieger
Price: SOLD
A stark and WPA in aesthetic signed oil on canvas painting by the important Minnesota artist Dewey Albinson. This was exhibited as fine art and is titled on verso in the original exhibition tag "Event in the Loft" - Don Quixote Volume #1 Chapter 16". The artist utilizes bold impressionist brush strokes and a subdued color palette to explore his fascination with Miguel Cervantes’s story of Don Quixote.
Artist: Dewey Albinson
Price: $3,500.00
From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: Sold
From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: Sold
From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who […]
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: Sold
Public art in the 1930s is today synonymous with the Works Progress Administration--a New Deal Federal program that underwrote regionalist and modernist fine artists by commissioning their work for murals that can still be seen throughout the United States. Less often remembered is how private industries during the Great Depression and World War II became patrons of the […]
