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Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
certain sense, to remain an "outcast" of the art world. He initially failed his drawing exam for admission
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
"outcast" of the art world. He initially failed his drawing exam for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled, abstract drawing in pen, ink and graphite
By Eugene Martin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This original drawing in pen, ink, and graphite presents a black and white abstract figure with
Category

1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Graphite

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); Five drawings; watercolor, ink on board;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Filtered Sun, Luxembourg Gardens by Martha Walter (1875-1976, American)
By Martha Walter
Located in New York, NY
: Paul Sternberg, Art by American Women Additional information supplied by Sara J. MacDonald, Public
Category

20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); 1974; watercolor, ink on paper;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); Julian Ritter Painter; watercolor, ink;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); The Best; watercolor, ink on board;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); Postcard letter; watercolor, ink on paper;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
portraits, he also worked in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Julian Ritter (American 1909 - 2000); Three postcards; watercolor, ink on board;
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Julian Ritter (American 1909 – 2000); Clown with flowers; watercolor and ink on
By Julian Ritter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
in other media including pen-and-ink with watercolor, charcoal and Conté crayons and painted other
Category

20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Untitled
By Eugene Martin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Eugene Martin was an African-American artist best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media
Category

1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Graphite

Untitled
By Eugene Martin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Eugene Martin was an African-American artist best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media
Category

1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Graphite

Untitled, black and white work on paper of profile of an abstract figure
By Eugene Martin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
African-American artist best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media collages on paper, his often
Category

1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Graphite

Cavalry Club, 1939 Modern British Mid Century Master Drawing Illustration
Located in London, GB
'Cavalry Club, 1939' drawing by Feliks Topolski RA (1907-1989), unframed dimessions 12 x 15.5 ins
Category

1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Laid Paper, Pen

Southwest Plains Oil Painting by Ben Shahn,
By Ben Shahn
Located in Graton, CA
that he could evoke worlds with a single pen stroke or color overlay. Blind Botanist, a drawing for a
Category

Early 19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

NYC School Abstract Expressionist Russian-American Painter Pastel Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Provincetown, Stillman’s experiments with such techniques led to a unique drawing process. Using an inkless pen
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Crayon, Pastel

"COTTON FARM" BLACK TEXAS FOLK ART ARTIST JOHNNY BANKS
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Reeves: John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John Willard Banks, black
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Color Pencil, Crayon

Blackbottom II
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
McKenna Museum of African American Art, “Imago Mundi: New Orleans: Repatriation,” Prospect.3 Adjunct at
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Glitter, Casein, Pen

"Crazy Birds" Benny Andrews, 1964 Birds Stylized Surrealist Animal Sketch
By Benny Andrews
Located in New York, NY
American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the
Category

1960s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Two Riding Through The Woods" Black Texas Folk Artist Johnny Banks African
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Rambling on My Mind: Black Folk Art of the Southwest, organized by the Museum of African-American Life
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

Night and Day
By Ben Shahn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
including over 60 museums such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"International Great Northern The Texas Railroad Depot" San Antonio Texas
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
, African American Folk Artist John Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

""Southern Pacific Railroad Depot" San Antonio Texas Black Texas Folk Artist
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of works of art by black artists, saw one of the drawings
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

"The Living Dead" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
: John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John Willard Banks, black self
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

Child they had some people there
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bag Lady
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Watch That Bean Juice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Casanovas Funeral
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Shop Talk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

You knew damn well I was bringing a jelly cake
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Walk together children"
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Found Objects

Passing down of hats
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

madame muse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Git somewhere and Siddown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

second time around
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Surrealist Landscape
By Robert Doney
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
piece depicts an African-American man drawing primitive, cryptic imagery on a wall. The painting is
Category

1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Modernist Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture In Metal Wire And Lamp Shade
By Richard Hunt
Located in Surfside, FL
obstruction of African-American art at the time. From an early age he was interested in the arts, as his
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Abstract Painting in Dark Green, Olive, Orange, Yellow, light Brown, dark brown
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Denver, CO
American art. He traveled with his family to Chicago to see the Marshall Fields Gallery where he had
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

“Friedrich’s Window, ” Photorealism, circle of Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
began his career in New York in 1968, he created artworks that were pen & ink drawings, often erotic in
Category

1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

“Blind Orion, ” Photorealism, circle of Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
to the collection of American Modernist and African American art, which he had developed a
Category

1970s Photorealist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Big Pagoda 1997" Estate Lithograph
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
article was entitled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist". Unfortunately, this was
Category

1990s Pop Art Interior Prints

Materials

Lithograph

In the Conservatory
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
to the collection of American Modernist and African American art, which he had developed a
Category

1990s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Lithograph - Woman
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
which effectively introduced Matisse the powerful American art market. In the first decade of his
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

after Henri Matisse - Fern - Lithograph
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
remain an "outcast" of the art world. He initially failed his drawing exam for admission to the
Category

1950s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marquita by African American Artist Bai, Work on Paper Portrait
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
Marquita by African American artist Bai is a 15” x 11” portrait on etching paper rendered in red
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen

San Francisco Bay rare India ink drawing of the Bay by Paul Grimm
By Paul Grimm
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century pen & ink drawing of a house on the San Francisco inner bay by famous
Category

1950s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Untitled (Young Girl Reading)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
society and Western art history. An African American artist, he presented the American scene as he
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pen

A Vivid, Expansive Watercolor of Mexico, Summer Landscape with Country Villa
Located in Chicago, IL
prolific American artist, was a Chicago native. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and served
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

A Striking 1940s Classical Landscape Watercolor with Arches and Rooftops, Mexico
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist. Rudolph T. Pen, a prolific American artist, was a Chicago native. He graduated from the Art
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

"Texas Longhorn" Black Texas Folk Artist Johnny Banks African American
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Folk Art of the Southwest, organized by the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas in
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

"Mr. Kuni s Farm" Black Texas Folk Artist Johnny Banks African American
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Folk Art of the Southwest, organized by the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas in
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

"Peter Walks The Water" Jesus and Peter Black African American Folk Painting
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Folk Art of the Southwest, organized by the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas in
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Mixed Media

"New York Cafe" Benny Andrews, 1966 African-American Social Realist Work
By Benny Andrews
Located in New York, NY
(BECC), which agitated for greater representation of African American artists and curators in New York’s
Category

1960s Realist Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Unitled (this self-taught artist used felt pens to create a vivid fantasy world)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and
Category

1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Foam Board, Felt Pen

Unitled (this self-taught artist used felt pens to create a vivid fantasy world)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and
Category

1990s Outsider Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Foam Board, Felt Pen

William Sharp Lithograph of United States Supreme Court
By William Sharp
Located in Hanover, MA
publicizing the exhibit: ''The Pointed Pen: William Sharp's Courtroom Drawings, Political Caricatures and
Category

Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Drawings

Materials

Paper

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