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The Most Famous Artworks of Social Realism

The 60 most celebrated works of the Social Realism movement, ranked by renown across 343 works in the catalog.

A note on the ranking: "fame" here is a measure of renown, not of merit — synthesised from how widely a work is cited and held. It leans toward the Western canon and the best-digitised collections. Read it as a popular index, not a verdict.

  1. Old Brewery, Five Points Mission, New York
    Old Brewery, Five Points Mission, New York F. A. Mead · 1870
  2. On to Liberty
    On to Liberty Theodor Kaufmann · 1867
  3. Adult Funeral Procession
    Adult Funeral Procession William P. Chappel · 1874
  4. Saturday Night
    Saturday Night Morris Neuwirth · 1939
  5. The Village Carpenter Bringing a Coffin for a Dead Child
    The Village Carpenter Bringing a Coffin for a Dead Child Christen Dalsgaard · 1857
  6. A Dutch Bomber Bombing the Fort in the Center of the City of Jogyakarta
    A Dutch Bomber Bombing the Fort in the Center of the City of Jogyakarta Mohammad Toha Adimidjojo · 1948
  7. Self-Portrait
    Self-Portrait John Christensen · 1936
  8. Gas
    Gas Edward Hopper · 1940
  9. Portrait of Composer Gara Garayev
    Portrait of Composer Gara Garayev Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhov · 1960
  10. Cleared Site with Hoarding and a Figure
    Cleared Site with Hoarding and a Figure Unknown · 1935
  11. Untitled
    Untitled Mikhail Grigoriyevich Pashinin · 1950
  12. The President, the Vice President and Other Leaders are Banished to Sumatra
    The President, the Vice President and Other Leaders are Banished to Sumatra Mohammad Toha Adimidjojo · 1948
  13. The Honourable Jane Walsh (1910–1996)
    The Honourable Jane Walsh (1910–1996) E. F. Wells · 1946
  14. Maxim Gorky
    Maxim Gorky Isaak Brodsky · 1937
  15. J. Stalin and members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR among children in Gorky Park
    J. Stalin and members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR among children in Gorky Park Vasily Svarog · 1939
  16. Martin Åberg, 1888-1946
    Martin Åberg, 1888-1946 Martin Åberg · 1932
  17. A Demonstration on 25 October Prospect
    A Demonstration on 25 October Prospect Isaak Brodsky · 1934
  18. ...And the Home of the Brave
    ...And the Home of the Brave Charles Demuth · 1931
  19. Refugees
    Refugees Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi · 1939
  20. Vladimir Lenin in Smolny
    Vladimir Lenin in Smolny Isaak Brodsky · 1930
  21. Self-portrait
    Self-portrait Hrant Stepanyan · 1948
  22. Young David
    Young David Eduard Isabekyan · 1956
  23. Workers on the Building Site. Draft for a Decoration of Oslo City Hall
    Workers on the Building Site. Draft for a Decoration of Oslo City Hall Edvard Munch · 1931
  24. Tuchanka.
    Tuchanka. Mitrofan Grekov · 1925
  25. Moving party
    Moving party Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin · 1937
  26. Трубачи Первой Конной армии
    Трубачи Первой Конной армии Mitrofan Grekov · 1934
  27. Family at the Sea
    Family at the Sea Dmitri Zhilinsky · 1964
  28. Мать партизана
    Мать партизана Sergey Gerasimov · 1950
  29. Daughter of Soviet Kirgizia
    Daughter of Soviet Kirgizia Semyon Afanasyevich Chuikov · 1948
  30. Sayat Nova
    Sayat Nova Eduard Isabekyan · 1964
  31. Portrait of painter's wife Olimpia Sargsyan
    Portrait of painter's wife Olimpia Sargsyan Hrant Stepanyan · 1949
  32. Winter Landscape
    Winter Landscape Hovhannes Zardaryan · 1946
  33. Old Galler
    Old Galler Jorge Bermúdez · 1914
  34. Coffee Agricultural Worker
    Coffee Agricultural Worker Candido Portinari · 1934
  35. Szekler Market
    Szekler Market Vilmos Aba-Novák · 1939
  36. Circus (1935)
    Circus (1935) Vilmos Aba-Novák · 1935
  37. Generations (Three Generations)
    Generations (Three Generations) Gyula Derkovits · 1932
  38. Reply to Hazkert
    Reply to Hazkert Eduard Isabekyan · 1960
  39. Early Sunday Morning
    Early Sunday Morning Edward Hopper · 1930
  40. George Bell (artist and critic)
    George Bell (artist and critic) James Peter Quinn · 1939
  41. Migration of Armenians
    Migration of Armenians Hrant Stepanyan · 1949
  42. Union Refugees
    Union Refugees George W. Pettit · 1865
  43. Poor motherless bairns
    Poor motherless bairns Flora Macdonald Reid · 1936
  44. Luptele românești din 1917
    Luptele românești din 1917 Ion Stoica Dumitrescu · 1917
  45. For You
    For You Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhov · 1961
  46. Women wedding
    Women wedding Azim Azimzade · 1930
  47. Satul nou
    Satul nou Ionescu Corneliu · 1938
  48. Istoria desenului
    Istoria desenului Vasile Popescu · 1943
  49. Proletarul (Țăran cu pâine în mână)
    Proletarul (Țăran cu pâine în mână) Alexandru Phoebus · 1926
  50. Dans românesc
    Dans românesc Iosif Iser · 1953
  51. Cap de copil
    Cap de copil Octav Băncilă · 1850
  52. Bourgeois swines
    Bourgeois swines Amshey Nurenberg · 1929
  53. Automobile
    Automobile Roman Matveevich Semashkevich · 1930
  54. Eminescu și Creangă
    Eminescu și Creangă Octav Băncilă · 1918
  55. Tablou, ulei pe pânză, „Omagiu”, nesemnat. Nicolae Ceaușescu este prezentat în mijlocul oamenilor muncii vegheat de ”fantomele” eroilor neamului : Burebista, Decebal, Traian, Mircea cel Bătrân, Iancu de Hunedoara, Vlad Țepeș, Ștefan cel Mare, Mihai Viteazul, Dimitrie Cantemir, Nicolae Bălcescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza (de la stânga la dreapta). Comandat și oferit de Comitetul Județean de Partid Tulcea, 22 ianuarie 1978.
    Tablou, ulei pe pânză, „Omagiu”, nesemnat. Nicolae Ceaușescu este prezentat în mijlocul oamenilor muncii vegheat de ”fantomele” eroilor neamului : Burebista, Decebal, Traian, Mircea cel Bătrân, Iancu de Hunedoara, Vlad Țepeș, Ștefan cel Mare, Mihai Viteazul, Dimitrie Cantemir, Nicolae Bălcescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza (de la stânga la dreapta). Comandat și oferit de Comitetul Județean de Partid Tulcea, 22 ianuarie 1978. Unknown · 1850
  56. Oglinda Alba
    Oglinda Alba Vasile Popescu · 1943
  57. Χωρίς τίτλο
    Χωρίς τίτλο Semashkevich · 1932
  58. Profesorul Vasile Filip
    Profesorul Vasile Filip Eustațiu Stoenescu · 1940
  59. Familia Ion C Inculeț
    Familia Ion C Inculeț P.S. Subak · 1948
  60. Reproducere pe lemn, reprezentând pe Taras Sevcenko (1814-1861), poetul național al Ucrainei, Moscova, 1985
    Reproducere pe lemn, reprezentând pe Taras Sevcenko (1814-1861), poetul național al Ucrainei, Moscova, 1985 Unknown · 1985