Browsing Tag WPA

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…

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…

Swann Galleries opened the winter 2024 season with the fourth iteration of The Artist of the WPA. The timed online auction closed Thursday, January 25, with an 89% sell-through…

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…

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…

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…

Harold Porcher, Director of Modern & Post-War Art and lead specialist for the Artists of the WPA sale on January 27, 2022, shares three standout paintings from the auction.…

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

Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, this auction covers twentieth-century masters as well as contemporary practitioners and items from the…

Dorothea Lange‘s iconic photographs from her time documenting for the Farm Security Administration, as well as her international travels, resonate through the decades since.…