Swann Galleries: The Artists of the WPA, 2727, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 302 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Designer Unknown

Designer Unknown, USA Work Program, circa 1936.

circa 1936. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,064.00
2 Will Barnet

Will Barnet, Desolation, 1935.

1935 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
3 Joseph Biel

Joseph Biel, The Watchman.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 762.00
4 Leonard Pytlak

Leonard Pytlak, Keeping Warm, circa 1936.

circa 1936. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
5 Robert Game

Robert James Malone, Alabama Crap Game, circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 762.00
6 Philip Evergood

Philip Howard Evergood, Farmer's Sorrow, 1938.

1938 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 561.00
7 Peggy Bacon

Peggy Bacon, Tired Eyes, 1935.

1935 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,320.00
8 Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White, The American Way of Life (At the Time of the Louisville Flood, Kentucky), 1937; printed 1980s.

1937; printed 1980s. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,842.00
9 Marion Post Wolcott

Marion Post Wolcott, Migrants waiting in line to be paid off for picking cotton, near Mileston, Mississippi, 1939; printed 1978.

1939; printed 1978. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
10 Seymour Fogel

Seymour Fogel, Untitled, 1940.

1940 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
11 Eli Jacobi

Eli Jacobi, A Nap, 1936.

1936 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 528.00
12 Seymour Fogel

Seymour Fogel, New York No. 1, 1936.

1936 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,651.00
13 Julius Thiengen Bloch

Julius Bloch, Resting, 1930.

1930 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,079.00
14 Hyman J. Warsager

Hyman Warsager, Preserve the Initiative for Children, circa 1937.

circa 1937. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 825.00
15 Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent, And Now Where? 1936.

1936 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
16 Jack Delano

Jack Delano, A family standing in a doorway, 1930s.

1930s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,540.00
17 Charles Randolph (1930) Pollock

Charles Pollock, Man at the Well, circa 1930.

circa 1930. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,143.00
18 Joseph (1911) Vogel

Joseph Vogel, Man on Pier, 1934.

1934 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 571.00
19 Dorothea Lange

A selection of 4 photographs by Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Arnold Eagle/David Robbins, and Arthur Rothstein, 1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s.

1935-38; the Lange printed 1970s. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,286.00
20 Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein, Son of a Sharecropper, Mississippi County, Arkansas * Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition, Wilson cotton plantation, Mississippi County, Arkansas, 1935.

1935 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,794.00
21 Arthur (1929) Lange

A selection of 13 F.S.A. photographs by Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott, as well as 5 unidentified works, circa 1935-40.

circa 1935-40. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,032.00
22 Stevan Dohanos

Stevan Dohanos, Man of the Soil, 1935.

1935 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,206.00
23 Carroll Cloar

Carroll Cloar, Early Arkansan, circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,064.00
24 Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange, Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970.

June 1938; printed circa 1970. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
25 Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange, Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970.

June 1938; printed circa 1970. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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