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Browsing Tag The Artists of the WPA

March 4, 2025

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, was a comprehensive evaluation of post-revolution art in…

January 8, 2025

Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in Swann's Artists of the WPA sale, reflecting on how the early twentieth century changed…

December 18, 2023

Highlights from the December 14, 2023 auction of Illustration Art.

February 7, 2023

In times of economic hardship, the United States government has stepped in to create jobs for the unemployed through federal programs. In such cases focusing on our country’s…

October 14, 2022

Romana Javitz was curator of The New York Public Library's Picture Collection from 1928 to 1968, where she assembled one of the most historically important and artistically…

February 1, 2022

The house opened 2022 with The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27. The follow-up to an inaugural 2021 sale proved the staying power of this special offering with the…

December 22, 2021

As we close out another successful year at Swann we look back at our record-filled sales.

December 20, 2021

The New Deal not only established a great legacy, but a greater generation of artists whose works defined the American spirit.

February 9, 2021

The Artists of the WPA were on display in our February 4, 2021, auction. The multi-departmental sale was headed by Harold Porcher, the house’s director of Modern and Post-War Art,…

April 2, 2020

As jobless Americans eventually found work with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA), George Biddle, an artist and childhood friend of the…