St. George — African American artist
By John Tarrell Scott
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Tarrell Scott, 'St. George', woodcut, edition 20, 1992. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '18/20' in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white, laid Japan paper, with ful...
Woodcut
$1,200
Motif. Abstract, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
#3 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
By Hilliard Dean
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Dean’s work has been acknowledged in important reference publications on African American artists, including Afro-American Artists: A Bibliographical Directory, edited by Theresa Dic...
Lithograph
Abstract Print African American Female Artist Wilhelmina Godfrey "Yesterday"
By Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey
Located in Buffalo, NY
As teacher and artist, Godfrey won respect from the arts community and served as a role model for young African Americans.
Lithograph
Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Motif (Purple), African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut or Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
$1,500
'Sculpturegraph' — Modernist Abstraction, Contemporary African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Alabama, African American sculptor, printmaker, and model maker, George Rogers (1930-2002) was active in Detroit.
Monoprint
'The Garden' — Celebrated Contemporary African American Artist
By Margo Humphrey
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
She was one of the earliest African-American woman artists to distinguish herself as a lithographer in a highly technical, male-dominated profession and was the first to have her pri...
Woodcut
Passé Blanc - African American Female Artist
By Betye Saar
Located in Miami, FL
Passé Blanc, 2002 Artwork is titled in Pencil Betye Saar Serigraph (Hand Printed Silkscreen) on rice paper 51" × 27" P.P. (Printer's Proof), believed to be the only Printer's Proof E...
Rice Paper
'#9' — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
By Hilliard Dean
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
His work is referenced in 'Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory,' edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973, and in 'Free Within Ourselves: Afri...
Lithograph
#4 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
By Hilliard Dean
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
His work is referenced in 'Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory,' edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973, and in 'Free Within Ourselves: Afri...
Lithograph
#5 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
By Hilliard Dean
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
His work is referenced in 'Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory,' edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973, and in 'Free Within Ourselves: Afri...
Lithograph
#6 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
By Hilliard Dean
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
His work is referenced in 'Afro-American Artists, A Bibliographical Directory,' edited by Theresa Dickason Cederholm, Boston Public Library, 1973, and in 'Free Within Ourselves: Afri...
Lithograph
The House of Shango — African American artist
By Samella Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream ...
Lithograph
Elizabeth Catlett - Blues, signed/N lithograph, African American artist, Framed
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in New York, NY
Bibliography: Three Decades of American Printmaking, Edmunds pl. 171; p. 135 "Beyond the Blues", 2010, Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Resea...
Lithograph, Offset
Abstract Drypoint Etching Cheryl Warrick African American Woman Artist
By Cheryl Warrick
Located in Surfside, FL
Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956), "Peace Makes Plenty" Color etching, soft ground, white ground, drypoint, and chine colle, on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper Hand signed in pencil. ...
Drypoint, Etching
$2,800
Abstract minimalist lithograph by African-American artist: music, dance inspired
By John Dowell
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract, minimalist composition with minute, highly detailed colorful markings inspired by music, dance, and space. It is a limited edition lithograph, signed, dated, tit...
Lithograph
$5,800
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY 1986 Lithograph, African American History, Black Culture
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Union City, NJ
SCHOMBURG LIBRARY is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence, printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival A...
Lithograph
$9,250
FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking ...
Lithograph
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN(Turban) Hand Drawn Lithograph Young Black Female Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned African American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, printed in light black ink on archival c...
Lithograph
$8,000
Power (White Male): Signed, original 1970s photograph by African American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
New York based, African American photographer Beuford Smith, becoming active in the Civil Rights era of the late 1960s and ‘70s, is best known for his socially conscious photographs ...
Silver Gelatin
$8,000
Red Cap, Port Authority: Signed, original photograph by African American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
New York based, African American photographer Beuford Smith, becoming active in the Civil Rights era of the late 1960s and ‘70s, is best known for his socially conscious photographs ...
Silver Gelatin
$1,800
The Sight: photograph by Black African American artist, girl w/ gold & cotton
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is the first print (#1) in a limited edition of 10 signed, titled, and numbered photographs titled "The Sight," by artist Tokie Rome-Taylor.
Archival Pigment
$1,800
HONKY TONK Signed Lithograph, 1996, Black Musician Collage Portrait, Guitar
By James Denmark
Located in Union City, NJ
HONKY TONK is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist James Denmark printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Somers...
Lithograph
$5,600
INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN (Uptown At Savoy) Signed Lithograph, Jazz Club
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
INTRODUCTION FOR A BLUES QUEEN(Uptown At Savoy) is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, ...
Lithograph
Art isnt Easy, Surrealist Hand-Colored Lithograph by Alvin Carl Hollingsworth
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Alvin Carl Hollingsworth, American (1928 - 2000) - Art isnt Easy, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Hand colored Lithograph, signed in the plate, Size: 10.25 x 8 in. (26.04 x 20.32 cm), F...
Lithograph
Evening Thoughts Lithograph, Color Collage Portrait, 2002, 25x18 in.
By Ernest Crichlow
Located in Union City, NJ
EVENING THOUGHTS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, social realist African-American artist ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914-2005).
Lithograph
$5,500
BRASS SECTION(Jamming at Minton's) Signed Lithograph, Abstract Jazz Portrait
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
BRASS SECTION(Jamming at Minton's) is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free...
Lithograph
Sharing the Chores Lithograph, Contemporary Gullah Scene, 1996
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
SHARING THE CHORES is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% ...
Lithograph
$7,500
BESSIE MAE Signed Lithograph Linocut 1995, Plus Size Singer on Stage Red Dress
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
BESSIE MAE is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph/linocut by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed in 10 colors using hand lithography techniques and linoleum cut o...
Lithograph, Linocut
$4,350Sale Price|25% Off
Louisiana Serenade Signed Lithograph, 1979, Contemporary Southern Evening Scene
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
LOUISIANA SERENADE is a limited edition color lithograph by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden, printed on archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an...
Lithograph
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
NO PLACE LIKE HOME Signed Lithograph, Black Family, Vintage Kitchen Scene
By Louis Delsarte
Located in Union City, NJ
NO PLACE LIKE HOME is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the African American artist Louis Delsarte printed using hand lithography...
Lithograph
$4,950
FATHER & SON Signed Lithograph 1993 Contemporary Gullah Scene, Lowcountry SC
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% ac...
Lithograph
NOCTURNE Signed Lithograph, Black Women Theater Stage Night Sky Balloon Ribbons
By Hughie Lee-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
Nocturne is an original limited edition lithograph by the African American artist Hughie Lee-Smith printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free.
Lithograph
FUGUE Signed Lithograph, Figurative Collage, Musicians, Girls, Balloons
By Hughie Lee-Smith
Located in Union City, NJ
Fugue is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the African American artist Hughie Lee-Smith printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% ac...
Lithograph
'Emma Lazarus' — African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Thurlow Evans Tibbs was a Washington D.C. gallerist, collector, and advocate for African American art whose extensive archive documenting the art of the African diaspora as well as t...
Linocut
Campesino Mexicano — African American artist
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
For more than sixty years, first in the United States and then in Mexico, Catlett has produced politically charged and aesthetically compelling graphic images of what matters most to...
Linocut
Sold|$1,200
Motif. Abstract, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
KKK Lynching – African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Carl G. Hill, 'Untitled (KKK Lynching)', lithograph, c. 1937-38, edition not stated. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1/2 to...
Lithograph
Motif, Orange Blue, African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Motif, Gold Abstract African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Motif (Purple), African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut or Silkscreen Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Abstraction II — African American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Abstraction II), lithograph, c. 1950, unsigned, no edition–proofs only. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margin...
Lithograph
Abstraction I — African American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, 'Untitled (Abstraction I)', lithograph, c. 1950, unsigned, no edition–proofs only. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margi...
Lithograph
Sold|$3,400
I Am Black, I Am Black, I Am Dangerously Black — African-American artist
By Camille Billops
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Camille Billops, 'I Am Black, I Am Black, I Am Dangerously Black', etching and aquatint, 1973, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, numbered '11/50' and annotated '3rd State' in pencil...
Etching, Aquatint
'Survivor' — African American Artist
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
At the same time, however, her prints - some intricately detailed and others elegantly spare - manifest her understanding that the power of an image resides in the artist's command o...
Linocut
Storm's Coming — African American artist
By John Tarrell Scott
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Tarrell Scott, 'Storm's Coming', woodcut, edition 9, 1992. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '3/9' in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white, laid Japan paper, with ful...
Woodcut
Storm's Coming #2 — African American artist
By John Tarrell Scott
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Tarrell Scott, 'Storm's coming #2', woodcut, edition 10, 1992. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '8/10' in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white, laid Japan paper, wit...
Woodcut
Storm's Coming #3 — African American artist
By John Tarrell Scott
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Tarrell Scott, 'Storm's coming #3', woodcut, edition 20, 1992. Signed, dated, titled and numbered '1/10' in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white, laid Japan paper, wit...
Woodcut
'Survivor' — Elizabeth Catlett, African American Woman Artist
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
At the same time, however, her prints - some intricately detailed and others elegantly spare - manifest her understanding that the power of an image resides in the artist's command o...
Linocut
La Dame Noir (the Black Woman) African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
La Dame Noir (the Black Woman) African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
La Dame Noir (the Black Woman) African American Artist Viola Leak Woodcut Print
By Viola Burley Leak
Located in Surfside, FL
Her mixed media work often references religious motifs and those of her African-American experience and heritage. She is a multimedia artist, her works include printmaking, textile d...
Screen, Woodcut
Jacob Lawrence African American Artist - Silkscreen, 1976. Morning Still Life
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Artist: Jacob Lawrence, American (1917 - 2000) Title: Morning Still Life Year: 1976 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 165/200 Image size: 24 1...
Paper
Sold|$6,975
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS, Signed Lithograph, African American, Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100%...
Lithograph
Sold|$6,975
Sweetgrass Carriers, Signed Lithograph, African American, Gullah Culture
By Jonathan Green
Located in Union City, NJ
Sweetgrass Carriers is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100%...
Lithograph
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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