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Jim Crow

Let Freedom Ring
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Palmetto, GA
War II would translate into victory against Jim Crow. The collection of available works artist
Category

21st Century and Contemporary More Art

Materials

Board, Acrylic

Matinee at the Ritz
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Palmetto, GA
. The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002
Category

1990s More Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Miss Prather's Class
By Winfred Rembert
Located in New York, NY
-tooled and dyed leather, which explore the lives of African Americans in Jim Crow-era Georgia. After
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen, Woodcut

  • Miss Prather's Class
  • Miss Prather's Class
  • Miss Prather's Class
  • Miss Prather's Class
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H 15.8 in. W 12 in.
R.M. Schindler Church (rear)
By Sam Durant
Located in New York, NY
cross Los Angeles economic and racial boundaries in the era of Jim Crow housing covenants". R.M
Category

Early 2000s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Cloud of Witnesses
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Palmetto, GA
. The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Board, Acrylic

Blue and Gray
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Palmetto, GA
. The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002
Category

21st Century and Contemporary More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Blue and Gray
H 23.25 in. W 40.25 in.
"New Amsterdam" - Contemporary History Painter - American Realism - Vermeer
By Richard Thomas Scott
Located in Atlanta, GA
- a victim of mass incarceration - what Michelle Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow calls: a
Category

2010s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Drowning of Brother Tony, " Original Pastel Drawing signed
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
colorful fish populate the water and sky. Alligators reference Jim Crow caricatures in which black children
Category

1990s Neo-Expressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Paper

"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas Playful depiction of a crow by California-based
Category

1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

C'mon, son!
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Kicking and Screaming
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and White
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

The Evidence of Things Seen
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and White
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Birthmark
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
The life simulated here is of a young mixed race woman facing life in a Jim Crow era - an era where
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

  • Birthmark
  • Birthmark
  • Birthmark
  • Birthmark
H 13 in. W 13 in. D 4 in.
Blue Blood
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

The House of Shango — African American artist
By Samella Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
American art.” Born and raised in Jim Crow era New Orleans, Lewis began her art education at Dillard
Category

1990s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled (Surrealist White Figures with Black Man) WPA Era American Surrealist
By Walter Quirt
Located in Seattle, WA
familiar cry for racial justice, before miscegenation laws were repealed, when Jim Crow segregation and
Category

1930s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

"SIXES BORN AND RAISED" 6666 RANCH IN TEXAS
By Martin Grelle
Located in San Antonio, TX
developed and improved upon. His parents and Jim and Mary Ellen Boren, all set that example for him - an
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
affiliated ARTEF (Arbeiter Teater Farband, Workers' Theatre Union), such as Lag Boymer and Jim Kooperkop in
Category

1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

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Figure of a Violin Player
Located in Litchfield, CT
Violin Player closely relates to the carving of Jim Crow attributed to Dodge now in the collection of The
Category

Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

  • Figure of a Violin Player
  • Figure of a Violin Player
  • Figure of a Violin Player
  • Figure of a Violin Player
H 38 in. W 12 in. D 12.63 in.
Coming in From the Background
By Thornton Dial, Sr.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Thornton Dial, one of the most sanctioned African American Artists from the Jim Crow South, has
Category

1990s Post-Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Running Negro
By Thornton Dial, Sr.
Located in Atlanta, GA
faced growing up in the Jim Crow South. With the violence and inequality African Americans were facing
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Concrete

Jim Morrison
By Kira Lee
Located in New York, NY
into crows feet. Culture-defining philosophies stitched into a silk robe,” said Lee. “Gathering these
Category

2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Spray Paint

Houseboy
By Victor Olson
Located in Minneapolis, MN
was originally written as a Jim Crow title in the late 40s and was reissued in 1953 as a paperback
Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

  • Houseboy
  • Houseboy
  • Houseboy
  • Houseboy
H 27.5 in. W 21.5 in.
KKK Lynching – African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Americans by the whites who sought to enforce racist Jim Crow laws. The Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante
Category

1930s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

How to Spot Talent
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
that decided who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining and policing… America was built to benefit
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Magazine Paper

Lucky
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining… America was built to benefit white people (even as those
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Magazine Paper

Lucky
H 19 in. W 16 in.
Captain America
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining… America was built to benefit white people (even as those
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Magazine Paper

Bayard Rustin (Portrait Painting of LGBTQ Icon with Gold Leaf & Wood Frame)
By Carl Grauer
Located in Hudson, NY
protests against Jim Crow laws, Rustin played a leading role in marches, protests and other instances of
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Factory Scene WPA Mid 20th Century American Realism Cubist Industrial Modernism
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in New York, NY
. These descendants of former slaves and freemen left the Jim Crow South in search of economic opportunity
Category

1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

First Lessons
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jim Crow, Antique tintype of African American young man "The stereotype of the Black shoeshine “boy
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

  • First Lessons
  • First Lessons
  • First Lessons
  • First Lessons
H 13 in. W 12 in. D 10 in.
Secondary Education
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
, because of Jim Crow laws, state-funded schools were forbidden to Blacks. Nevertheless, rural Black
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

  • Secondary Education
  • Secondary Education
  • Secondary Education
  • Secondary Education
H 18 in. W 9 in. D 6 in.
Acquitted
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Bleachers
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
imagery symbolizes a racist aspect of American Culture. A time in the history of Jim Crow laws when Blacks
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

  • Bleachers
  • Bleachers
  • Bleachers
  • Bleachers
H 18 in. W 13 in. D 11 in.
Martin Grelle, Saddles and Slickers, Oil on Canvas, Western Art
By Martin Grelle
Located in San Antonio, TX
, but developed and improved upon. His parents and Jim and Mary Ellen Boren, all set that example for
Category

1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

All Me
By Winfred Rembert
Located in New York, NY
explore the lives of African Americans in Jim Crow-era Georgia. After taking part in civil rights
Category

2010s Outsider Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

"Takin' A Chance On Luv" Pigment Print, African American Feminist Art
By Betye Saar
Located in Surfside, FL
other stereotyped African-American figures from folk culture and advertising of the Jim Crow era. She
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Pigment

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Jim Crow For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate jim crow for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the modern style, while we also have 1 modern versions to choose from as well. You’re likely to find the perfect jim crow among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 20th Century as well as those made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right jim crow is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes gray, brown, black and purple. Creating a jim crow has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Chris Barnard, Johnnie Lee Gray, Kat Flyn, Sam Durant and Martin Grelle are consistently popular. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, acrylic paint and oil paint.

How Much is a Jim Crow?

The average selling price for a jim crow we offer is $5,850, while they’re typically $1,125 on the low end and $175,000 for the highest priced.