Anton Refregier
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Anton Refregier was a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States.
Refregier on scaffold at work on mural at WPA Building of the 1939 N.Y. World's Fair. Photographed for the Works Progress Administration.
Sir Francis Drake, detail from the Rincon Center murals
Social realism
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Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class
Grant Wood's magnum opus American Gothic, 1930, has become a widely known (and often parodied) icon of social realism.
Charles de Groux, The Blessing, 1860
Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost, 1888, from How the Other Half Lives. Bandit's Roost at 59½ Mulberry Street was considered the most crime-ridden part of New York City.
Gustave Courbet, A Burial At Ornans