$1,700
H 26 in W 18.25 in
Original Vintage WWII George Washington Carver Victory Bond Poster by Kautz 1945
Located in Boca Raton, FL
WWII occurred in the midst of Jim Crow laws, so the fact that this poster features George Washington Carver, an example of Black Excellence is a statement by the artist, William Kautz.
Lithograph
R.M. Schindler Church (rear)
By Sam Durant
Located in New York, NY
Located in the Central-Alameda district of Los Angeles on the corner of Compton Avenue and 49th Street, it is the only example of a church designed by Schindler, and "the lone exampl...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
$14,000
H 21.25 in W 17.38 in
Civil Rights, Anti Racism Portrait of Black Politician Julian Bond
Located in Miami, FL
Julian Bond--a new breed of politician hatched in Jim Crow country--who may be Black America's best hope for the future."
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$6,500
H 28 in W 20 in
Keep Us Flying Tuskegee Airman Buy War Bonds Poster 1943
Located in Boca Raton, FL
They became symbols of black excellence in the Jim Crow era in America, and had exemplary records in the air during battles.
Lithograph
$1,800
H 16.75 in W 16.75 in
"Doris and Henry (and her brothers)" Polaroid lift from the collective archive
By Shawn Theodore
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Concurrently in history, Black people were increasingly taking control of their narratives, decolonizing the lens behind the camera to craft a collective identity during the post-Jim...
Paper, Found Objects, Wood Panel, Polaroid
$4,200
H 19.125 in W 22.875 in D 2 in
“40 Acres and a Mule” Satirical Folk Art Painting, American School, 19th C.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Likely executed in the Southern United States during the late 19th century, this unsigned work emerges from a broader vernacular tradition that satirized rural life and, more pointed...
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Antique Map of The United States of North America, 1882
Located in Langweer, NL
The Reconstruction era was coming to an end, with federal troops withdrawing from the South and the beginning of the Jim Crow era of racial segregation laws. 8. **Economic Disparity...
Paper
The Evidence of Things Seen
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebon...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
C'mon, son!
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebon...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Kicking and Screaming
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebon...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Blue Blood
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebon...
Acrylic, 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 one drop of African American blood consigned a person to a second- class existence...
Mixed Media
"Fragment" by Jean Edelstein, 1972
Located in Los Angeles, CA
While in Kentucky, she led political progressive movements, protesting against Jim Crow laws and working to get Henry A. Wallace on the presidential ballot.
Paint, Glass, Wood, Paper
The House of Shango — African American artist
By Samella Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
—Laura Woods, Scripps College, Ruth Chander Williamson Gallery, Collection Highlights, 2018 ABOUT THE ARTIST Samella Lewis’ lifelong career as an artist, art historian, critic, cura...
Lithograph
Figure of a Violin Player
Located in Litchfield, CT
The Violin Player closely relates to the carving of Jim Crow attributed to Dodge now in the collection of The Shelburne Museum.
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 developed a signature approach to art making and his own visual language.
Metal
Let Freedom Ring
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Charleston, SC
The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002 & prominently featured Grays work.
Acrylic, Board
Running Negro
By Thornton Dial, Sr.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dial faced growing up in the Jim Crow South. With the violence and inequality African Americans were facing after the abolition of slavery, many were constantly on the run.
Concrete
Matinee at the Ritz
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Charleston, SC
The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002 & prominently featured Grays work.
Acrylic, Board
Blue and Gray
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Charleston, SC
The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002 & prominently featured Grays work.
Acrylic
Cloud of Witnesses
By Johnnie Lee Gray
Located in Charleston, SC
The PBS television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow aired nationally in the fall of 2002 & prominently featured Grays work.
Acrylic, Ink, Board
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H 12 in W 15 in D 1.5 in
Untitled, ca.1939 Important Racial Painting by 1930s Radical American Surrealist
By Walter Quirt
Located in Seattle, WA
THE RADICAL PAINTER Decades before Black artists were exhibited in today's reform-minded American galleries and museums, before the term "civil rights" was a familiar cry for racial ...
Oil
KKK Lynching – African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
When Hill created this work, the widespread poverty caused by the Great Depression had deepened resentment for African Americans by the whites who sought to enforce racist Jim Crow l...
Lithograph
How to Spot Talent
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stolen land, the Virginia Slave Codes, the Naturalization Act, Supreme Court cases that decided who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining and policing… America was built to benefit...
Magazine Paper
Captain America
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stolen land, the Virginia Slave Codes, the Naturalization Act, Supreme Court cases that decided who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining… America was built to benefit white people...
Magazine Paper
Lucky
By Kim Rice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stolen land, the Virginia Slave Codes, the Naturalization Act, Supreme Court cases that decided who was white, Jim Crow Laws, and Redlining… America was built to benefit white people...
Magazine Paper
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H 13.75 in W 11.75 in D 2 in
Bayard Rustin (Portrait Painting of LGBTQ Icon with Gold Leaf & Wood Frame)
By Carl Grauer
Located in Hudson, NY
Beginning in his youth with protests against Jim Crow laws, Rustin played a leading role in marches, protests and other instances of non-violent resistance that were used during the ...
Gold Leaf
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H 25 in W 21 in
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 and civil rights.
Oil, Board
First Lessons
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: Antique homemade shoeshine box, antique brush with hand-carved initials, small hand brush, handmade & painted "10 cents shine" Sign made into a billboard, Antiq...
Mixed Media
Secondary Education
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
After the Civil War, in theory, this was no longer the case. However, because of Jim Crow laws, state-funded schools were forbidden to Blacks.
Mixed Media
Acquitted
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebon...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Bleachers
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
A time in the history of Jim Crow laws when Blacks were segregated at water fountains, public bathrooms, schools and, as shown here, even at baseball games, where they were roped off...
Mixed Media
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H 12 in W 10 in
SIGNED Christopher WOOL monograph 1998 (Christopher Wool MoCa Los Angeles)
By Christopher Wool
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Comprehensively illustrated with 180+ black & white images of Wool's works-mostly in varous settings; with essays from Goldstein, Thomas Crow, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Jim Lewis & Gary ...
Paper
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H 19 in W 15.5 in
"Takin' A Chance On Luv" Pigment Print, African American Feminist Art
By Betye Saar
Located in Surfside, FL
In the 1960s, Saar began collecting images of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, Little Black Sambo, and other stereotyped African-American figures from folk culture and advertising of the Jim ...
Pigment
Houseboy
By Victor Olson
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This oil on illustration board Pyramid Books paperback cover painting was created by by Victor Olson for a 1953 edition of Houseboy by Edison Marshall written under the nom de plum W...
Oil, Illustration Board
All Me
By Winfred Rembert
Located in New York, NY
A self-taught artist, Winfred Rembert records a painful chapter of American history in autobiographical paintings, created on hand-tooled and dyed leather, which explore the lives of...
Color