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Browsing Tag 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…

February 1, 2024

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…

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…

January 24, 2022

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.…

December 20, 2021

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

May 5, 2021

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…

March 2, 2021

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.…