The winter-spring auction season at Swann is a masterclass in marathon training, and the 2022 iteration proved no di…
The house opened 2022 with The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27. The follow-up to an inaugural 2021 sale p…
Harold Porcher, Director of Modern & Post-War Art and lead specialist for the Artists of the WPA sale on January…
As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales.
The New Deal not only established a great legacy, but a greater generation of artists whose works defined the Americ…
On February 4, 2021, Swann offered: The Artists of the WPA. The first iteration of the multi-departmental sale, feat…
As jobless Americans eventually found work with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA)…
In addition to the many murals, sculptures, paintings and photos commissioned by the Works Progress Administration d…
While Dorothea Lange—and her portrait of Florence Thompson, Migrant Mother—has become one of the most well-known pho…
