#anton refregier

[xjmlm]

Anton Refregier

Napalm - Made in USA

1970

screenprint (poster)

[soundgrammar]

Anton Refregier, "...for I say at the core of democracy, finally, is the religious element. All the religions, old and new, are there."--Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1957, gouache on prepared fiberboard, 26 x 22 in. (66.1 x 56.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.248

[cuirass]

Growth and Harvest - Anton Refregier (lithograph, circa 1970)

[mioritic]

Sketches of the Soviet Union, Anton Refregier (published 1978)

[luxobnubilata]

Anton Refregier

Seated Girl, circa 1965

[igormag]

Anton Refregier (1905-1979), Welders-Grand Coulee Dam, n.d.

oil on canvas, 40" x 50"

[igormag]

Anton Refregier  (1905-1979), Pipe Fitter-Grand Coulee Dam, ca. 1930s.

oil on canvas, 40" x 50"

[sfmoma]

Look what we unearthed from SFMOMA’s Office of the Director Records! In this letter to Anton Refregier, dated June 27, 1947, SFMOMA Director Grace McCann Morely writes about the artist’s murals, which he was commissioned to paint at the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco as part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

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