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
76 Erle Loran

Erle Loran, San Francisco Bay, 1940.

1940 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,778.00
77 Armin Landeck

Armin Landeck, West 41st Street, NY, circa 1940.

circa 1940. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,556.00
78 Gerardo Belfiore

Gerardo Belfiore, Southbound, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,778.00
79 Leon Bibel

Leon Bibel, Archway, 1939.

1939 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,540.00
80 Anthony Velonis

Anthony Velonis, Side Street, circa 1939.

circa 1939. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 444.00
81 Beatrice Mandelman

Beatrice Mandelman, Rockport, Mass, 1938.

1938 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 792.00
82 Albert Pels

Albert Pels, Children Playing Soldiers (Boom, Boom, Your Dead), 1948.

1948 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,397.00
83 Philip Reisman

Philip Reisman, A Pair of Watercolors.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,079.00
84 Stuyvesant VanVeen

Stuyvesant Van Veen, New York Police Headquarters, 1963.

1963 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 381.00
85 Daniel Ralph Celentano

Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers), circa 1934.

circa 1934. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.00
86 Leonard Pytlak

Leonard Pytlak, 14th Street - May Day, circa 1934.

circa 1934. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
87 Don Freeman

Don Freeman, (1908-1978), To See the Mayor, 1937.

1937 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 889.00
88 Designer Unknown

Designer Unknown, The State Forests / Pennsylvania, 1930s.

1930s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 476.00
89 Richard H. Jansen

Richard H. Jansen, Resettlement Administration / Rural Slums on Worn Out Land, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,032.00
90 Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn, Warning! / Inflation Means Depression, 1946.

1946 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,794.00
91 Lester Thomas Beall

Lester Thomas Beall, Cross Out Slums, 1941.

1941 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,334.00
92 Lester Thomas Beall

Lester Thomas Beall, Slums Breed Crime, 1941.

1941 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,320.00
93 Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein, Rally for the Townsend Plan, Kansas, 1936, (printed circa 1980).

1936, (printed circa 1980). USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 990.00
94 Charles Krutch

Charles Krutch, Downstream Face of the Wheeler Dam * Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Fertilizer Plant, Muscle Shoals, AL, 1930s.

1930s. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,016.00
95 Charles Krutch

Charles Krutch, Generator Hall of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Pickwick Landing Dam on the Tennessee River, 1933.

1933 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,397.00
96

An archive of more than 150 photographs documenting construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, 1934-45.

1934-45. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
97 Harry Sternberg

Harry Sternberg, Construction, 1932.

1932 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,112.00
98 Seymour Fogel

Seymour Fogel, Untitled, (Industry), circa 1930s.

circa 1930s. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
99 Harry Gottlieb

Harry Gottlieb, Coal Mine Country, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,032.00
100 Harry Francis Mack

Harry Francis Mack, Night Work, circa 1935.

circa 1935. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 792.00
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