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Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.In the late 1920s, Alston joined Bearden and other black
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

People - Original Etching by F. Brangwyn - Mid 20th Century
By Sir Frank Brangwyn
Located in Roma, IT
People is a wonderful original etching realized between the beginning and the middle of the XX
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

EARTH - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed Art, Symbol, Crescent
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Nelson Mandela, Earth, Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Many people are unaware that Nelson
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Cell - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed Art, Robben Island
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
released from prison he became South Africa’s first black president and showed the country how to unify and
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair" Joseph Delaney, African-American
Located in New York, NY
African-American artist Joseph Delaney was a folk-expressionist painter who loved New York City, both as a
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
much further, lived amongst the people he painted and gained sustained international acclaim. He was
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fishing Boat, 2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
graphic realism. Hano grew up in a small town on the east coast of South Africa, where he says the idea of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Early Morning by the River Wye, Gloucestershire, October, Cotswolds Landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Pinkster. It was inspired by time spent sketching on a misty morning waiting for the sun to rise in a
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Oil, Board, Archival Paper

Rotterdam Harbor Freight Cart, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
signature style of graphic realism. Hano grew up in a small town on the east coast of South Africa, where he
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Bull
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Missouri, MO
-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

House, St. John, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
graphic realism. Hano grew up in a small town on the east coast of South Africa, where he says the idea of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

The Noble Bull
By William Robinson Leigh
Located in Missouri, MO
painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the
Category

Early 20th Century American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Sunday Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Spring Gardens Trafalgar Square-original impressionism cityscape painting-art
By Michael Alford
Located in London, Chelsea
warm glow of street lights, and the lively activity of people enjoying the scene at night. The
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

If on a Winters Night I-original impressionism London cityscape oil painting-Art
By Michael Alford
Located in London, Chelsea
sketching and painting from life, Michael’s recent trips have taken him to India, East Africa, the Middle
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Camel Rider. Egypt.American Orientalist.Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
many artists travelled in Europe and ‘the Orient' he ventured much further, lived amongst the people he
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mon Colonel
By Auguste Chabaud
Located in London, GB
travelled to the W. coast of Africa. In 1902, he was in the military in Tunisia and he brought back many
Category

1910s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Crayon, Pencil

Winter Farmyard, 18th Century Oil on Canvas, Figures in Snow Landscape
By George Morland
Located in Prato, IT
as an honorary exhibitor of sketches at the Royal Academy. He continued to exhibit at the Free
Category

Antique Late 18th Century English Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Abstract Geometric Screen Print -- "Construction Over Yellow Sky"
By Margo Hoff
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful geometric abstract screen print abstract in black, blue and yellow by Margo Hoff
Category

1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Ink, Laid Paper

Family Group
By George Morland
Located in Fairlawn, OH
age of three years, and at the age of ten (1773) his name appears as an honorary exhibitor of sketches
Category

1790s English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Family Group
Family Group
H 6.38 in W 9.5 in
Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Guillaume Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Creole Dancer
Creole Dancer
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Power To The People
By Khaya Witbooi
Located in Mineral Point, WI
powerful commentary on rampant commercialism and its effects on the African psyche. Khaya Witbooi
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Stencil

After the masked ball
By Max Rabes
Located in Eltville, DE
Middle Eastern and North African life, whether dancers in Tangiers, Odalisques, a Berber in a white
Category

1920s Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Trish
By Alfred Conteh
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
personal truth with the African American community.  Growing up in Fort Valley, Georgia –100 miles south of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Trish
Trish
H 14 in W 14 in
"Dolly - Flower Woman" ELDERLY BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN FLOWER VENDOR SMOKING PIPE
By Elizabeth Verner
Located in San Antonio, TX
supply of subject matter including lush landscape, architectural landmarks, and local people. Many of her
Category

1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

A Dialogue with an Unknown People: Two Sisters
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Dallas, TX
the Amon Carter. From his study of their collection, Sedrick made ink sketches of the black-and-white
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Ink, Paper

"Pool Hall", Acrylic & Found Objects, African-American Outsider Artist
Located in Detroit, MI
that point. But once I got out, there were people who believed in me and saw the best in me, and I
Category

2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

Unidentified English Colonel At Leisure (Oil Painting of Male Figures)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
oil on canvas 45 x 40 inches 52 x 47 x 3 inches in black painted wood frame This listing is
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Portrait of a Modern Man' by Chartier
Located in London, GB
African masks. The use of black on the right side of the artwork has the effect of projecting the subject
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Passaic Falls, New Jersey,
By Benjamin Hartley
Located in Concord, MA
travels in Africa Benjamin carried with him empty sketch books, inks, watercolors, and, most surprisingly
Category

1850s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil

Zoubir Amina Algerian Artist "Recipes to consume without moderation" Woman Body
By Amina Zoubir
Located in Paris, FR
written by Michket Krifa, Art Critic and Visual Arts Commissioner for Africa and the Middle East The
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital

'Winter Scene in Provence' Landscape Oil Painting
By Auguste Chabaud
Located in London, GB
could no longer support him, he enlisted in the merchant navy and travelled to the West coast of Africa
Category

1910s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

after Henri Matisse - Fern - Lithograph
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot
Category

1950s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lithograph - Woman
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Violin Player", Acrylic and Found Objects on Panel, African-American Subject
Located in Detroit, MI
made up until that point. But once I got out, there were people who believed in me and saw the best in
Category

2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Acrylic

Black C-1
By Angelo Di Benedetto
Located in Denver, CO
ground control. During his free time in Africa, he sketched and painted the local population and his
Category

20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Black C-1
Black C-1
H 21.75 in W 19.5 in D 1.25 in
THE LAMP Signed Lithograph Black Mother and Child Reading Brown vs. Board of Ed.
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
depicting a black mother and her young child seated in profile, reading from a green book beside a glowing
Category

1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Black #1, 1965 Mid Century Modern Painting Shaped 3 Dimensional Canvas
By Angelo Di Benedetto
Located in Denver, CO
Africa, he sketched and painted the local population and his fellow servicemen. Following Africa, he
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mother & Child Flee.Vietnam.Human Rights Female Artist. Madness of War.Original.
By Tisa von der Schulenburg
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
people. Elisabeth was the fifth child of the family and the only daughter. She became known
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Handsigned Portfolio of Lithographs by Henri Matisse - Poems
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Irises: Abstract Still Life Painting of Purple Flowers on Dark Yellow Background
By Greg Decker
Located in Hudson, NY
, in 2016. The vertical still life painting, made with loose, gestural brushstrokes, features a black
Category

2010s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Limited Edition Panza Collection poster
By Mark Rothko
Located in New York, NY
his Yale classmates also from Portland, Max Naimark, recalled that Rothko sketched a good deal in
Category

1980s Color-Field Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Original Linocut - Henri Matisse - Teeny
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Linocut - Henri Matisse - Teeny
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Linocut - Henri Matisse - Teeny
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Linocut - Henri Matisse - Teeny
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Linocut - Henri Matisse - Teeny
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback. Matisse’s father
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Barber Shop
Located in New Orleans, LA
previously overlooked African-American artists. From an artistic family, and an accomplished pianist himself
Category

2010s Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nightfall, St Paul's-Original impressionism cityscape painting-contemporary Art
By Michael Alford
Located in London, Chelsea
palette of dark earth tones, black, and gold. The composition unfolds against the backdrop of the London
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

White on White #4, Large Shaped Canvas Acrylic Painting, 1965 Mid Century Modern
By Angelo Di Benedetto
Located in Denver, CO
and doing ground control. During his free time in Africa, he sketched and painted the local
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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