Black Nativity by Langston Hughes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ruth Mae Crane – American (1929-2002) Title: Black Nativity by Langston Hughes Year: 1997 Medium: Acrylic on Leather mounted to plywood Size: 39 x 31.5 inches x 1.5 inches Si...
Leather, Plywood, Acrylic
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
Langston Hughes, America Martin, ink portrait- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Ink, Archival Paper
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Langston Hughes No.4_ America Martin, ink quote- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Ink, Archival Paper
SUNRISE IS COMING AFTER WHILE
By Phoebe Beasley
Located in Portland, ME
SUNRISE IS COMING AFTER WHILE by Langston Hughes. Six of Hughes'poems selected by Maya Angelou, each illustrated with a screen print by Beasley.
Screen
Portrait of Manual Komroff
By Carl Van Vechten
Located in New York, NY
He is now celebrated for his portrait photographs of friends, acquaintances, fledgling artists, and established cultural figures of the time; including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston ...
Silver Gelatin
Robert Blackburn, Contemporary Figurative Lithograph by Ron Adams
Located in Long Island City, NY
He was friends with James Baldwin and Langston Hughes, produced work with and alongside Romare Bearden, Will Barnet, Jacob Lawrence, Stanley William Hayter, Elizabeth Catlett, Benny ...
Lithograph
"Recent Memory" - abstract, teal, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,540
"A Flower For Your Thoughts" - abstract, pink, green, nature-based
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Left Unsaid" - abstract, green, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Breakwater" - abstract, blue, nature-based
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Echo" - abstract, blue, geometric, nature-based
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Hot Take" - abstract, red, nature-based, vibrant
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,540
"Limelight" - abstract, lime green, purple, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Midnight Bloom" - abstract, blue, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Timelapse" - abstract, yellow, geometric, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Perennial Trace: What Light Builds" - abstract, yellow, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
Esther Podemski, Color Correction_15, 2015, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
It won the director’s choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival and the jury award for the best short at The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
Digital Pigment
Esther Podemski, Color Correction_3, 2014, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
It won the director’s choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival and the jury award for the best short at The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
Digital Pigment
$650
Esther Podemski, Color Correction_024 Template, 2014, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
It won the director’s choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival and the jury award for the best short at The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
Digital Pigment
Lullaby: Jacob Lawrence wife, mother & child family embrace in abstract interior
By Gwendolyn Knight
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Through Savage, Knight first came into contact with Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Charles Alston, Ralph Ellison, Alain Locke, Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, and other writers, think...
Lithograph
Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Graphite
America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Lithograph
America's Daughter
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Lithograph
America's Son
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Lithograph
Jazmen
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Ink
Sammy Lee Sleeping II Graphite Drawing, Signed Contemporary Art
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Graphite
$2,250Sale Price|25% Off
NO PLACE LIKE HOME Signed Lithograph, Black Family, Vintage Kitchen Scene
By Louis Delsarte
Located in Union City, NJ
His parents were friends with artists and entertainers from the Harlem Renaissance like Lena Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. These influences along with his k...
Lithograph
$2,800
Offset Lithograph signed & warmly Inscribed to African American Arts prof Framed
By Sam Gilliam
Located in New York, NY
Formerly an account executive, Harrison Advertising Agency, New York City, 1964; feature writer and columnist assistant to Langston Hughes, Associated Negro Press, 1965; special feat...
Lithograph, Offset, Ink
Big Momma's Still Life #2, Contemporary Oil Pastel on Rag Paper, 2007
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Oil Pastel
Untitled (Man at Desk)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Ballpoint Pen
Jacob Lawrence The Swearing In Color Screenprint Signed Edition of 100
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Surrounded by a flourishing cultural and intellectual environment, he was deeply influenced by artists, writers, and thinkers like Langston Hughes, Augusta Savage, and Alain Locke. L...
Paper, Screen
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
He also designed album covers for artists such as Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins, as well as book covers for Eudora Welty and Langston Hughes.Alston became staff artist at the Of...
Paper, Charcoal
Unavailable
H 14 in W 120 in D 26 in
Conceptual Sculptural by Isaac Aden / A Dream Deflated (After Langston Hughes)
By Isaac Aden
Located in New York, NY
A Dream Deflated (After Langston Hughes) Bear Traps and Basketballs 14 x 120 x 26 in Edition of 3 + 2 A.P. 2014
Metal
Untitled
By Charles Alston
Located in East Hampton, NY
Other members included Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. DuBois, Josephine Baker, Zora Neal Hurston, and Duke Ellington.
Gouache
Addiction
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston Hughes and Benjamin Brown. Long apparently served on the board of the Quarterly but we are unsur...
Oil, Fiberboard
Compo B
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston Hughes and Benjamin Brown. Long apparently served on the board of the Quarterly but we are unsu...
Oil, Board
Untitled
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston Hughes and Benjamin Brown. Long apparently served on the board of the Quarterly but we are unsu...
Oil, Fiberboard
Flutter
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
Accents Red
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
Tangerine
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
This One
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
Side Entrance
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
Stones
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Fine Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center, Corona, New York, An Alternate Perspective, 1987.
Canvas, Acrylic
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"RIVER", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, monuments
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Gouache
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"DUST", ink, pencil, watercolor, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, time
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"PENINSULAR", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, citrus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"TOWN", ink, pencil, watercolor, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, alabama
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Watercolor
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"KNAP SACK", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, florida
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"PREACHING", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"HOUSE CALLS", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Unavailable
H 12 in W 9 in
"FIVE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe,...
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Langston Hughes
By Richard Merkin
Located in Hudson, NY
stretched with no frame
Oil, Canvas
Cotton Club
Located in Los Angeles, CA
During its heyday, the Cotton Club served as a hip meeting spot featuring regular "Celebrity Nights" on Sundays which featured celebrity guests such as Jimmy Durante, George Gershwin...
Oil
Sold
H 30 in W 24 in
"Traces of Yesterday" - abstract, yellow, blue, nature-based, flowing
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
Sold
H 72 in W 56 in
"A Chance Encounter" - abstract, red, orange, nature-based, large-scale
By Evan Blackwell-Helgeson
Located in Atlanta, GA
“The line ‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers,’ from Langston Hughes poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” has underpinned the making of this body of work,” says Evan.
Canvas, Mixed Media
Sold
H 17.63 in W 16.5 in D 1 in
Let America Be America Again, Collage of Text on Paper with Geometric Shapes
By Meg Hitchcock
Located in Kent, CT
The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes is written out in tiny letters cut from "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill.
Paint, Archival Paper, Ink, Graphite
America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Lithograph
America's Mom II (Small Leticia, the artist's wife)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi.
Lithograph
Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist
By Americus Long
Located in Surfside, FL
Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston Hughes and Benjamin Brown. Long apparently served on the board of the Quarterly.
Enamel
Sold
H 18 in W 14 in
"Black Youth" Young Black Male, Harmonica, Deep Earth Tones, African American
Located in Detroit, MI
He later provided illustrations for Harper's and Vanity Fair, as well as several significant books of the day, including James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombone (1927), a 1927 reprint ...
Oil