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Original Vintage WWII George Washington Carver Victory Bond Poster by Kautz 1945
Located in Boca Raton, FL
occurred in the midst of Jim Crow laws, so the fact that this poster features George Washington Carver, an
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Prints

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Woodcut, Screen

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
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Early 2000s Color Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color

"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
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

"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
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Antique Map of The United States of North America, 1882
Located in Langweer, NL
Jim Crow era of racial segregation laws. 8. **Economic Disparity**: Although this period was marked
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Antique 1880s Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of The United States of North America, 1882
Antique Map of The United States of North America, 1882
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H 14.97 in W 22.45 in D 0 in
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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, 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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Canvas

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Birthmark
Birthmark
H 13 in W 13 in D 4 in
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
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

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Fine 19th Century Porcelain Plaque of La Madonna della Sedia after Raphel Sanzio
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine German 19th century circular porcelain plaque painting of La Madonna della Sedia after Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), depicting a seated Madonna and child next to a child Sa...
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Antique 19th Century German Renaissance Paintings

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Porcelain, Wood

Large Antique Soild Oak Sculpture of Saint John the Baptist w. Lamb of God 1850
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique hand carved church statue of Jewish prophet, John the Baptist, circa 1850. When you think of the life of Saint John the Baptist (or Baptiste as it is spelled here) then you c...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Baroque Revival Religious Items

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Wood, Oak

THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Color Lithograph, Lawyer and Clients, Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor bes...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Bronze Gothic Revival Candle Chandelier w. Virgin Mary & Marian Cross Sculptures
Located in Lisse, NL
Handcrafted and truly beautiful Gothic chandelier. In antiques it often is the case that the older a piece is, the better the quality and the details. This pre 1900s, unique, meanin...
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Antique 19th Century European Gothic Revival Religious Items

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Brass, Bronze

Hand Carved & Polychrome Folk Art Santo Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand carved and painted santo with child, possibly John The Baptist. The vivid polychrome colors and primitive wood carving make for a striking folk art piece.
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20th Century Mexican Folk Art Sculptures

Dance Head Ornament Representing an Antelope Head, Burkina Faso, Africa
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A beautiful stylized antelope head used as headdress on ceremonial dances. Retains the old painting and patina over the carved wood. Traded by a professor working in Africa in the 19...
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Mid-20th Century Burkinabe Primitive Busts

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Wood

"Two Female Nudes, " Mid-Century Masterpiece by Alexander Cañedo
By Alexandro De Canedo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Author of "How Cañedo Draws the Figure" and one of the acknowledged masters of the nude in the Art Deco and Mid-Century periods, Alexander Cañedo painted this remarkable scene of t...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

"Herod and Salome", Sensuous Art Nouveau/Art Deco Painting in Blue and Green
By Ewald Dahlskog
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stylized, yes, but sensuous and powerful, this transitional Art Nouveau-Art Deco painting depicts King Herod whispering into the ear of Salome, calling upon her to deliver the head o...
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Vintage 1910s Swedish Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

"Legacy, " Original Painting by Ivan Bartlett, Mid-Century Fabric Designer
By Ivan Bartlett
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In his early years, artist Ivan Bartlett was known for his WPA mural painting, such as for the Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho, but in the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for ...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Gouache

Henri D'Anty Abstract Still Life Oil On Canvas
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Chicago, IL
Henri D'Anty 1910-1998, oil painting on canvas, still life of fruit and bottles on a tray table. Brass frame with umber linen liner; framed 24.5" H x 21" W x 1" D. He studied at t...
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Vintage 1950s French Paintings

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Brass

1950s Painting by J.-C. Dragomir of the School of Montmartre
By Jean-Claude Dragomir
Located in Paris, FR
1950s oil on canvas painting by Jean-Claude Dragomir of the school of Montmartre, representing the "Place Vendôme" in Paris. No frame.
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Vintage 1950s French Paintings

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Canvas

Hero - African American Baseball Player, Boxer, Soldier, and Businessman
By Francks Deceus
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's "Hero" is a 24 x 48 inches mixed media work on canvas with collage. The work is partitioned in two distinct images. On the left side the artist depicted a baseball p...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Tiffany Studios Jeweled Drophead Dragonfly Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios Leaded Glass and Gilt Bronze Jeweled Drophead Dragonfly Table Lamp, circa 1910. At the turn of the century, Clara Driscoll, head of the women’s glass cutting depa...
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Vintage 1910s American Art Nouveau Table Lamps

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Bronze

Rare Midcentury Copacabana Chair by Mathieu Matégot, 1955
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Paris, FR
A rare collectible vintage lounge Copacabana chair by iconic French designer Mathieu Matégot composed of curved tubular steel legs and structure. This particular edition is distingui...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Chairs

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Steel

WALKING BLINDLY Signed Lithograph, Black Woman, For My People by Margaret Walker
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
WALKING BLINDLY is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best know...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

SWEETGRASS CARRIERS Signed Lithograph, South Carolina Lowcountry, Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the renowned American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed in 17 colors using h...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

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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
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Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

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
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1990s Post-Modern Mixed Media

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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
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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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
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

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Ink, Spray Paint

Untitled, ca.1939 Important Racial Painting by 1930s Radical American Surrealist
By Walter Quirt
Located in Seattle, WA
familiar cry for racial justice, before miscegenation laws were repealed, when Jim Crow segregation and
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Magazine Paper

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Magazine Paper

Lucky
H 19 in W 16 in
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
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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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
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

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
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1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

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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
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2010s Outsider Art Figurative Prints

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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
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

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Pigment

SIGNED Christopher WOOL monograph 1998 (Christopher Wool MoCa Los Angeles)
By Christopher Wool
Located in NEW YORK, NY
works-mostly in varous settings; with essays from Goldstein, Thomas Crow, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Jim
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Paper

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
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1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board

Houseboy
Houseboy
H 27.5 in W 21.5 in
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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.