ART OF AN ERA

A January sale at Swann Galleries showcases artists of the WPA

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 (printed ca. 1993). Silver print, 9½ x 7½ in. Estimate $4/6,000

On January 30, Swann Galleries opens its 2025 season with an auction dedicated to the artists of the WPA. The multidepartmental sale will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, books and related material by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1943.

In the paintings category are oils by Doris Emrick Lee, including her Early Spring Landscape; Paul Raphael Meltsner and Philip Howard Evergood.

Other works of note include August Mosca’s