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Sing Sing Prison Art
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Facility, a maximum-security prison in Ossining, New York, as part of a rehabilitation program that fosters
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$3,970
Mid-Century Prison Art Box from Cigarette Packs
Located in Forney, TX
A rare vintage prison art box, mid-20th century, colorful round folk art box with removable lid
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Tin
Prison Rose
By Jacques Grange
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful painting by the artist Jacques Grange
Work signed by the artist.
A real favorite!
His artistic approach is mainly based on a rejection or rather an oversight of his initial...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prison Whitout Bars I
Located in Porto, 13
This captivating self-portrait emerges, revealing a man of profound introspection and artistic fervor. Positioned at the heart of the canvas, the artist gazes directly at the viewer ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Prison Cell Theater Stage Design
Located in Astoria, NY
20th Century French School, Prison Cell, Scene Mixed Media Collage, marked in pencil "Faust /1er
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil
19: Prison Ship
Located in Columbia, MO
love of drawing and the art of engraving at a young age and perfected his passion over the years
Category
1820s Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
"Joseph the Jew in Prison"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Egidio Dall'Olio (1705–1784)
"Joseph the Jew in Prison"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions (Framed
Category
18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Regina Coeli Prison, Rome - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Regina Coeali Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Prison Road Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cool vintage metal road sign for a United States Prison. Sign is letting the car know that they are
Category
Vintage 1950s American Signs
Materials
Steel
Masha (Sentenced for Narcotics): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Masha (Sentenced for Narcotics): Women’s Prison
Ukraine
2010
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nadia (Sentenced for Narcotics): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Nadia (Sentenced for Narcotics): Women’s Prison
Ukraine
2010
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vania (Sentenced for Murder): Men’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Vania (Sentenced for Murder): Men’s Prison
Ukraine
2010
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (Prison Drawing)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Columbia, MO
soon after. Though he showed artistic promise early in his education, the study of art was not
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Trailer Prison, hand-inscribed copper sheet, black ink
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TRAILER PRISON by Rocky Dobey is a hand-inscribed copper sheet with black ink. It measures 60x36
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Mixed Media
Materials
Copper
Lena and Katya; Juvenile Prison for Girls
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Lena and Katya; Juvenile Prison for Girls
Ukraine
2009
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Project for a Prison - Spoleto - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Project for a Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Working - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Working is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Treviso - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Treviso is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Court - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Court is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Anne Bankroft in "Prison" - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Anne Bankroft in "Prison" in is an vintage black and white photograph realized in the Mid-20th
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Prison Visit by Alain Le Garsmeur
By Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
Prison Visit by Alain Le Garsmeur
A prisoner with his visiting children in Tegucigalpa main prison
Category
1980s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Young Prisoners; Juvenile Prison for Boys
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside.
When
Category
Early 2000s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sveta (Sentenced for Murder): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside.
When
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ira (Sentenced for Theft): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
. I was later told this was a men’s prison and from that moment I wanted to see what was inside.
When
Category
Early 2000s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Evin Prison - Painting, Coloured pencil on cardboard
Located in London, GB
In Evin Prison (2022), from her acclaimed Immortal Flower series, Soudeh Davoud (b. 1988) layers
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Color Pencil
Leonor Fini - Prisonners - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Prisonners - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yana (Sentenced for Theft): Juvenile Prison for Girls
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Yana (Sentenced for Theft): Juvenile Prison for Girls
Ukraine
2009
Signed and numbered, verso
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sergey (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Sergey (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys
Russia
2009
Signed and numbered, verso
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nastya (Wouldn’t reveal her Crime): Women’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Nastya (Wouldn’t reveal her Crime): Women’s Prison
Ukraine
2010
Signed and numbered, verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Johhny Cash at Folsom Prison
By Jim Marshall
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Johnny Cash getting off bus at Folsom Prison for the historic performance in 1968. Photograph is
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Vintage photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia (Rome) - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Rebibbia is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Women's Rights - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Women's Rights is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Poggio Reale - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Poggio Reale is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - Elfino Mortati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison - Elfino Mortati is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Skarhod (Sentenced for Man Slaughter and Cannibalism): Men’s Prison
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Skarhod (Sentenced for Man Slaughter and Cannibalism): Men’s Prison
Ukraine
2008
Signed and
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prison Folk Art Matchstick Model Boat Ship Maritime Night Light Sculpture 31"
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid century three tiered prison folk art / tramp art model steam boat sculpture. Upcycled cardboard
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Metal
$409 Sale Price
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Find the exact piece of prison art you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. There are many Contemporary, Modern and Photorealist versions of these works for sale. If you’re looking for an item from our selection of prison art from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 18th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right choice in our collection of prison art is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes black, gray, beige and blue. There have been many interesting object in our assortment of prison art examples over the years, but those made by Michal Chelbin, Al Clayton, Jim Marshall, Purvis Young and Arturo Garcia Bustos are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in archival pigment print, pigment print and paint can add an especially memorable touch.
How Much is a Prison Art?
A piece of prison art can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,721, while the lowest priced sells for $222 and the highest can go for as much as $47,190.
Questions About Prison Art
- What is prison art?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Prison art is art made by inmates in prison, often as part of a program to develop skills and reintegrate back into society. These art pieces can also help change society’s perception of prisoners. Shop a range of prison art pieces from top sellers on 1stDibs.
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