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We The Future 3 Limited Edition Print Set Obey Shepard Fairey and Aaron Huey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
Shepard Fairey - Earth Guardians, Rewrite the Law, Power to the Polls - Complete 3 Print Set
Category

2010s Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Earth Crisis Letterpress, Obey, Shepard Fairey Activism Street Art Print
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
. Shepard Fairey is a major influencer in the street art movement along side Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, and
Category

2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Black Earth Society - Urban Graffiti Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Asheville, NC
Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Black Earth Society - Urban Graffiti Street Art Prints "Black Earth
Category

2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Spray Paint, Color, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, ...

Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Wake Up Earth - Urban Graffiti Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Asheville, NC
environment for all of our futures." - Shepard Fairey Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Wake Up Earth
Category

2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey Screen Print Black Earth Society Street Contemporary Art Gold Ink
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
Proceeds benefited Greenpeace USA "Black Earth Society is a play on the Flat Earth Society, an
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Gold

Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 by Shepard Fairey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in London, GB
Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 Letterpress on cream cotton paper
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Cotton, Paper

Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 by Shepard Fairey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in London, GB
Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 Letterpress on cream cotton paper
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Cotton, Paper

Shepard Fairey "Factory Stacks" Diptych Matching Numbered Set
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
pencil, Shepard Fairey. Both prints are numbered 180/350. "These 'Factory Stacks' images combine the
Category

2010s Street Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Gold Leaf

Shepard Fairey Screen Print Protect Biodiversity - Cultivate Harmony Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
Earth’s delicate systems." -Shepard
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey Screen Print Protect Biodiversity - Cultivate Harmony Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
by protecting biodiversity and cultivating the harmony of Earth’s delicate systems." -Shepard
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey "Raise the Level Peace" Silkscreen Print Contemporary Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
the need for immediate action to protect the Earth." -Shepard Fairey Manufacturer: Obey Giant Edition
Category

2010s Street Art More Prints

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Flower Power: Red - Urban Graffiti Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Asheville, NC
and the urgency to transition off of fossil fuels. -Shepard⁠⠀ Artists: Fairey, Shepard
Category

2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Spray Paint, Screen, Stencil

Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Flower Power: Blue - Urban Graffiti Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Asheville, NC
and the urgency to transition off of fossil fuels. -Shepard⁠⠀ Artists: Fairey, Shepard
Category

2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Spray Paint, Screen, Stencil

Shepard Fairey Print Flower Power Red Screenprint Signed & Numbered Obey Giant
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
of citizens, government, and corporations." -Shepard Fairey
Category

2010s Street Art Landscape Prints

Materials

Gold

Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Mother Nature On the Run - Urban Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Asheville, NC
caring!" -Shepard Shepard Fairey - Obey Giant - Mother Nature On the Run - Letterpress - Urban Graffiti
Category

2010s Street Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Flower Power Print By Shepard Fairey Singed & Numbered Gold Metallic Inks Obey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
of citizens, government, and corporations." -Shepard Fairey
Category

2010s Street Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Gold

Green Power Factory (Earth Day, Renewable Energy)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shepard Fairey Green Power Factory Letterpress on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges Year
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Ecology : Protect the Planet (Earth Crisis) - Tall screenprint signed & numbered
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard FAIREY (Obey Giant) Flowering Eiffel Tower (A Delicate Balance) Original sceen print
Category

2010s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Tear Flame (Mother Earth, Rebellious, Defiant, Guilt, ~30% OFF - LIMITED TIME)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shepard Fairey Tear Flame (Mother Earth, Rebellious, Defiant, Guilt, When you dis your mother, you
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Flint Eye Alert Globe Signed and Numbered Screen Print Obey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
French True White Speckletone Fine Art Paper. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 450.
Category

2010s Abstract Prints

Materials

Giclée

Happiest Place On Earth - Large Contemporary Cubist Black Grey Blue Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
artworks were exhibited at the We Rise Art Fair in Los Angeles alongside Shepard Fairey and other prominent
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS gold space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: set of 2 works (KAWS silver gold space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
paintings in the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Gold Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS silver holiday space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere before retuning to Earth
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS black space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS silver holiday space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
paintings in the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: set of 2 works (KAWS space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

KAWS HOLIDAY Space & United Kingdom (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws MTV
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Vinyl, Resin, Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

Chris Ware New Yorker Cartoonist Limited Edition Thanksgiving Print NYC
By Chris Ware
Located in Surfside, FL
with, Shepard Fairey, Ben Katchor and Robert Crumb. Quimby the Mouse was an early character for Ware
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Color

Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 by Shepard Fairey
By Shepard Fairey
Located in London, GB
Wake Up Earth, Letterpress Print on Cream Cotton Paper, 2020 Letterpress on cream cotton paper
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Cotton, Paper

Shepard Fairey "This Changes Everything" Screenprint Climate Change Awareness
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Klein
Category

2010s Pop Art More Prints

Materials

Screen

Shepard Fairey Screen Print Protect Biodiversity - Cultivate Harmony Street Art
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Draper, UT
by protecting biodiversity and cultivating the harmony of Earth’s delicate systems." -Shepard
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Black Earth Society
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shepard Fairey Black Earth Society Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper Year: 2021 Size
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

We The Future - Young Man - Original Serigraph Handsigned Numbered
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard Fairey Young Man (Xiutezcatl Martinez) We the future Original serigraph, 2018 Signed in
Category

2010s Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

We The Future - Young Man - Original Serigraph Handsigned Numbered
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Paris, FR
Shepard Fairey Young Man (Xiutezcatl Martinez) We the future Original serigraph, 2018 Signed in
Category

2010s Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS gold space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere before retuning to Earth
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS gold space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere before retuning to Earth
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS black space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS black space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: set of 2 works (KAWS silver gold space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS silver holiday space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS black space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Gold Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Gold Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS silver holiday space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
paintings in the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
paintings in the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: complete set of 3 works (KAWS holiday space set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE Companion (KAWS gold space holiday)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien Hirst. Pop Art. Kaws figurative sculpture. Kaws metallic. Kaws
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

KAWS Holiday SPACE: set of 2 works (KAWS silver gold space)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
paintings in the early 1990s. Related Categories Takashi Murakami. Street Art. Shepard Fairey. Damien
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

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Shepard Fairey Earth For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the shepard fairey earth you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many street art, Pop Art and abstract versions of these works for sale. Adding a shepard fairey earth to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of blue, gray, white, gold and more. Creating a shepard fairey earth has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Shepard Fairey, KAWS and Chris Ware are consistently popular. Artworks like these — often created in screen print, plastic and polyurethane — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is a Shepard Fairey Earth?

The average selling price for a shepard fairey earth we offer is $1,750, while they’re typically $250 on the low end and $6,450 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right prints-works-on-paper for You

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.)

Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.

Questions About Shepard Fairey Earth
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 7, 2024
    Shepard Fairey is famous for his street art. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s through the prints, posters, stickers and murals related to his Obey Giant campaign, which was an international cultural phenomenon. Fairey’s now-iconic poster of Barack Obama became part of his presidential campaign. It encapsulates a number of recurring themes in the artist’s work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power. On 1stDibs, shop a diverse assortment of Shepard Fairey art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 27, 2024
    The style of art that Shepard Fairey is best known for is contemporary art. Specifically, Fairey is a famous street artist. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s through the dispersion of prints, posters, stickers and murals related to his Obey Giant campaign, which yielded an international cultural phenomenon. Fairey's iconic poster of President Barack Obama was adopted as the official emblem associated with the presidential campaign and encapsulates a number of recurring concerns in the artist's work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of Shepard Fairey art.

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