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Refugee Art

Afghan Refugee

Afghan Refugee

By Steve McCurry

Located in Greenwich, CT

Edition of 30 Additional sizes available Steve McCurry (American, b. 1950) has been one of the most iconic figures in contemporary photography for more than five decades. Born in Ph...

Category

1980s Color Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

Refugee, Pop Art Linocut by Richard Mock
Refugee, Pop Art Linocut by Richard Mock

Refugee, Pop Art Linocut by Richard Mock

By Richard Mock

Located in Long Island City, NY

Richard Mock, American (1944 - 2006) - Refugee, Year: 1994, Medium: Linocut on BFK Rives, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 80, Image Size: 21 x 17.5 inches,...

Category

1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Israel Refugees

Israel Refugees

By Leonard Freed

Located in Westwood, NJ

Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...

Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Afghan refugee - Peshawar, Pakistan

Afghan refugee - Peshawar, Pakistan

By Steve McCurry

Located in Toronto, ON

4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Steve McCurry

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Digital

Israeli Eritrean Refugees Wedding, 2014
Israeli Eritrean Refugees Wedding, 2014

Israeli Eritrean Refugees Wedding, 2014

Located in Toronto, ON

4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Malin Fezehai

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

By Marian Kratochwil

Located in Surfside, FL

Marian Kratochwil, Modern British artist (1906-1997) Painter and writer, born in Kosow, Poland, whose early training was in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski. First one-man exhibitio...

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Refugee Children - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s

Refugee Children - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Refugee Children- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Peter Tatiner in 1980. Copyright by Agenzia Gamma, Paris. In the photo: Border Cambodia Thailand Refugee children on 28 January 1980,...

Category

1980s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Refugee Surrealist Oil Painting, 21st Century, New, 51.18x39.37 in
Refugee Surrealist Oil Painting, 21st Century, New, 51.18x39.37 in

Refugee Surrealist Oil Painting, 21st Century, New, 51.18x39.37 in

By Shimon Pinto

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Shimon Pinto Shimon Pinto, Israeli painter whose works have been exhibited in several museums and public collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Museum Collection), the N...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

114 Million Refugees: Neo-Expressionist Oil and Acrylic Painting
114 Million Refugees: Neo-Expressionist Oil and Acrylic Painting

114 Million Refugees: Neo-Expressionist Oil and Acrylic Painting

By Sax Berlin

Located in Brecon, Powys

114,000,000 Refugees. Cate Blanchett Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR Addressing European Parliament Cate Blanchett,  Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR addressed the European Parliament on ...

Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees
Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees

By Jacques Lipchitz

Located in Surfside, FL

Steinberg) is displayed at the Steinberg Skating Rink in Forest Park. The St. Louis Art Museum loaned two of Lipchitz' works, the 1923-25 Large Bather (gift of Morton D.

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"The Refugee, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
"The Refugee, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post

"The Refugee, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Mixed Media on Whatman Drawing Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Titled and marked "P4447" on Saturday Evening Post label verso. "The Refugee" by Bud Hutton and illustrate...

Category

1940s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Refugees Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed
Refugees Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed

Refugees Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed

By Oli Sorenson

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Rooted in remix culture, Sorenson’s aesthetic pulls from Minimalism, Brutalism, Pop Art, early video games of the 70s and 80s, and Neo-Geometric Conceptualism.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Resin, Wood Panel

"Refugees" contemporary surrealist painting moose, wolverine, beaver on sailboat
"Refugees" contemporary surrealist painting moose, wolverine, beaver on sailboat

"Refugees" contemporary surrealist painting moose, wolverine, beaver on sailboat

By Thomas Broadbent

Located in New York, NY

40"x60" large scale watercolor on paper, featuring a moose, beaver, wolverine, cardinal and raven on a distressed sailboat, whose sail is mended with colorful blue checkered and red ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica

By Miriam Sommerburg

Located in Surfside, FL

Sommerburg would find international renown and go on to have her works displayed at the Boston Art Museum, the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City and the United States Holocaust Memo...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)
Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)

Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)

By Alexander Calder

Located in Southampton, NY

Issued by Alexander Calder for the benefit of the Spanish Refugee Aid. ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Credited with the invention of the mobile, Alexander Calder revolutionized twenti...

Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

All Roads Lead to Rome - contemporary, refugees, tourists, surreal, oil on panel
All Roads Lead to Rome - contemporary, refugees, tourists, surreal, oil on panel

All Roads Lead to Rome - contemporary, refugees, tourists, surreal, oil on panel

By Deborah Root

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary figurative oil painting explores themes of politics and culture. Deborah Root’s dynamic colourful compositions tell an intimate story about her experience during s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Inside on Papers
Inside on Papers

Inside on Papers

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Serenity
Serenity

Serenity

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

My Dear Lady
My Dear Lady

My Dear Lady

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Speak Up
Speak Up

Speak Up

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Queen Kong
Queen Kong

Queen Kong

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Higher Life
Higher Life

Higher Life

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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Family of Refugees
Family of Refugees

Family of Refugees

Unavailable

H 28.25 in W 22 in

Family of Refugees

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Reminiscent of the works of Maurycy Minkowsky, this painting portrays a Jewish pogrom or Holocaust refugee family using a non-traditional color palette. On the brink of survival, the...

Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Long Haul Refugee
Long Haul Refugee

Judith LindbloomLong Haul Refugee, 2006

Unavailable

H 30 in W 30 in

Long Haul Refugee

By Judith Lindbloom

Located in East Hampton, NY

The art market--collectors, curators and museums--is in the early stages of a broad reappraisal of the contribution of previously overlooked groups to the development of post-war mod...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Foam Board

With the Refugees

With the Refugees

By Edward Hopper

Located in Allentown, PA

Publication: Edward Hopper as Illustrator by Gail Levin (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979), No. 481. Exhibited: “Edward Hopper: Prints and Illustrations,” The Whitney M...

Category

1910s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Ares and Aphrodite #17 ( Refugees)

Ares and Aphrodite #17 ( Refugees)

By Sanda Iliescu

Located in New York, NY

Born in Romania, Sanda Iliescu lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work has received numerous awards such as the The Rome Prize, a McDowell fellowship in painting and T...

Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Addiction

Americus LongAddiction, c. 1970

Unavailable

H 24 in W 20 in

Addiction

By Americus Long

Located in East Hampton, NY

A notation on the back of a recently discovered painting indicates that Long may have studied at hampton University, a traditionally all-Black college, sometime in the 1940s under th...

Category

1970s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Compo B

Americus LongCompo B

Unavailable

H 36 in W 24 in

Compo B

By Americus Long

Located in East Hampton, NY

A notation on the back of a recently discovered painting indicates that Long may have studied at hampton University, a traditionally all-Black college, sometime in the 1940s under th...

Category

1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled

Americus LongUntitled

Unavailable

H 30 in W 22 in

Untitled

By Americus Long

Located in East Hampton, NY

A notation on the back of a recently discovered painting indicates that Long may have studied at hampton University, a traditionally all-Black college, sometime in the 1940s under th...

Category

1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Place of Refugee Wales original landscape painting

Place of Refugee Wales original landscape painting

By Garry Raymond-Pereira

Located in London, Chelsea

The original oil painting by Garry Pereira is painted on wood panel (12x12cm) . it is framed in a white tray frame and ready to be displayed. Garry Pereira was born in 1974 and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

By Marian Kratochwil

Located in Surfside, FL

Marian Kratochwil, Modern British artist (1906-1997) Painter and writer, born in Kosow, Poland, whose early training was in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski. First one-man exhibitio...

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)

By Marian Kratochwil

Located in Surfside, FL

Marian Kratochwil, Modern British artist (1906-1997) Painter and writer, born in Kosow, Poland, whose early training was in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski. First one-man exhibit...

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees
Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees

By Jacques Lipchitz

Located in Surfside, FL

Steinberg) is displayed at the Steinberg Skating Rink in Forest Park. The St. Louis Art Museum loaned two of Lipchitz' works, the 1923-25 Large Bather (gift of Morton D.

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica

By Miriam Sommerburg

Located in Surfside, FL

Sommerburg would find international renown and go on to have her works displayed at the Boston Art Museum, the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City and the United States Holocaust Memo...

Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Refugees, World War II, Modernist Judaica Gouache Painting Jewish WPA Artist
Refugees, World War II, Modernist Judaica Gouache Painting Jewish WPA Artist

Refugees, World War II, Modernist Judaica Gouache Painting Jewish WPA Artist

By Hananiah Harari

Located in Surfside, FL

This is signed upper right. it is not dated. Hananiah Harari (1912 – 2000) was an American painter and illustrator. Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New Yor...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic
Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic

Located in Surfside, FL

In the tradition of the Jewish European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Moritz Oppenheim, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Jakob Steinhardt, Jehudo Epstein, Stanisl...

Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees

By Moses Soyer

Located in Surfside, FL

Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His father was a Hebrew scholar...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art

Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art

By Ruth Schloss

Located in Surfside, FL

In Jerusalem, she joined a commune of Hashomer Hatzair in which she shaped her socialist views, which she maintained throughout her long career. 1940s In this period she mainly depic...

Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jewish Yemenite Fine Art Etching Print Israeli Parting Prayer Judaica Refugees
Jewish Yemenite Fine Art Etching Print Israeli Parting Prayer Judaica Refugees

Jewish Yemenite Fine Art Etching Print Israeli Parting Prayer Judaica Refugees

By Itamar Siani

Located in Surfside, FL

Itamar Siani, Israeli painter, engraver, born 1941, Yemen "The Magic Carpet" etchings depicting stages in the artist’s life including: Liberation, The Magic Carpet, New life in Israe...

Category

1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Homeless Jewish Refugee Family 1940s Judaica Oil Painting
Homeless Jewish Refugee Family 1940s Judaica Oil Painting

Homeless Jewish Refugee Family 1940s Judaica Oil Painting

By Frederick B. Serger

Located in Surfside, FL

Genre: Impressionist Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Panel Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 8 Dimensions w/Frame: 14 3/4 x 12 1/2 Frederick Serger (given name Frederick Bedrick Sinaberger)...

Category

1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

In the Nikolsburg, [Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp.
In the Nikolsburg, [Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp.

In the Nikolsburg, [Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp.

By Max Pollak

Located in Plano, TX

In Flüchtlingslager Nikolsburg-Auskämmen. (In the Nikolsburg,[Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp.) This rare series of ten etchings by Max Pollak records displaced Galician families...

Category

1910s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

NEW IMMIGRANTS Signed Lithograph, Refugees, Boat, Humanitarian Aid, Sun
NEW IMMIGRANTS Signed Lithograph, Refugees, Boat, Humanitarian Aid, Sun

NEW IMMIGRANTS Signed Lithograph, Refugees, Boat, Humanitarian Aid, Sun

By Chaim Gross

Located in Union City, NJ

They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art ac...

Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic
Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic

Located in Surfside, FL

In the tradition of the Jewish European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Moritz Oppenheim, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Jakob Steinhardt, Jehudo Epstein, Stanisl...

Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Storm, Modern Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist (War Allegory, Refugees)
The Storm, Modern Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist (War Allegory, Refugees)

The Storm, Modern Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist (War Allegory, Refugees)

By Maurice Kish

Located in Surfside, FL

Genre: Modern Subject: ship on a stormy sea Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subv...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees

By Moses Soyer

Located in Surfside, FL

Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His father was a Hebrew scholar...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Heart of Man
Heart of Man

Bright TohHeart of Man, 2023

Sold

H 55.1 in W 47.2 in D 1 in

Heart of Man

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Other Side
Other Side

Bright TohOther Side, 2022

Sold

H 47.2 in W 47.2 in D 1 in

Other Side

By Bright Toh

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

He also won the UNHCR global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations such as WFP, WildAid, UNESCO, IOM, and many more on art-based projects.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist
Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist

Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist

By Americus Long

Located in Surfside, FL

A notation on the back of a recently discovered painting indicates that Long may have studied at hampton University, a traditionally all-Black college, sometime in the 1940s under th...

Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

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