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Folk Art Mexican Boy Oil Painting on Burlap Charming Naive African American Art
By Jose Maria de Servin
Located in Surfside, FL
"primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
A. Moreno African American Nude Portrait Realist Oil Painting Topless Woman
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage original oil painting by A. Moreno. Features a beautiful natural topless woman with a long
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Expressionist Painting with Portrait of an African American Person
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's "Angel on My Shoulder" is a 40 x 21 inches expressionist oil painting portraying an
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
African American Realist Painting 3 Ladies Folk Art Outsider Art Andrew Turner
By Andrew Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
, these vignettes of experience will help to provide insight into some African American lifestyles and
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1977 REALIST African American SHOE SHINER Portrait Painting BLM ARTIST
Located in New York, NY
Arnold J. Hurley is an African American artist born 1944
Images on paper and canvas have been part
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Charles McGill Painting Black Gold African American Artist Imposto Rare
By Charles McGill
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by African American contemporary artist Charles McGill called
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an African American Man
By James Vullo
Located in Buffalo, NY
African American man in the foreground with fantastic industrial elements in the background. This piece
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Oil on Canvas Michigan Artist Russell Steinke African American Couple
By Russell Steinke
Located in Toledo, OH
Original oil on canvas by Michigan artist Russell Steinke. Depicting shadowed man and woman deep in
Category
Late 20th Century North American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Powerful 1950s Portrait of an African American Woman
Located in Pasadena, CA
style.
Painting is signed Pelhell?? and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Pointillist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Oil
Portrait of a young African American woman
By Chuck Tingley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by Chuck Tingley.
Chuck Tingley is one of four artists responsible for
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Social Realist Street Scene of Youth at Play (African American)
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
this urban street scene sensitively captures a group of African American kids at play.
Paul Zimmerman
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Social Realist Street Scene of Youth at Play (African American)
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
this urban street scene sensitively captures a group of African American kids at play.
Paul Zimmerman
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Oil noted African American artist Alma Thomas, Max Granick frame
Located in Palm Springs, CA
her paintings hung im her office in the White House. It is clearly in the style she painted early in
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Expressionist African American Woman Portrait German Brazilian Harry Elsas
Located in Surfside, FL
structure before painting a picture. In 1945, he was working with Lasar Segall (Lithuanian Jewish and
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Southern Gentleman" Unusal White Subject. Known for his African American
By William Aiken Walker
Located in San Antonio, TX
Medium: Oil "Southern Gentleman" Exhibited Piece.
The painting has been lined many, many years ago. A
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie
Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Museum in Harlem; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of African American History and
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
African Pattern Pot, Still Life Painting on Paper, Ancient Ceramic Vessel, 2024
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pot
Medium: Acrylic painting and oil crayon on watercolor paper
Size: 100x70 cm; 40x28 inches
Year
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Going to America" African Slave Ship by Black folk artist F.L. Doc Spellmon
By Doc Spellmon
Located in San Antonio, TX
: Oil "Going To America"
Biography
Doc Spellmon (1925 - 2008)
F.L. “Doc” Spellmon (1925
Category
1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
"Flowers in a Blue Vase, Still Life, " Floral Lilac Early African-American Artist
Located in New York, NY
illiterate laborer, Charles E. Porter became one of the first, if not the first, African-American to study at
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Woman at High Tea Modernist African American Large Oil Painting
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Surfside, FL
, was an African-American painter and one of the first black artists in comic books.
Contents
Alvin Carl
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modern American Oil Painting African American Jazz Musicians Horns Rare 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
A spectacular rare 1940's American modern expressionist painting depicting two Jazz musicians
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
African American Realist Oil Painting Baseball Outsider Folk Art Andrew Turner
By Andrew Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
into some African American lifestyles and serve as an inspiration to my students and others to continue
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Antique African American Cubist Abstract Modern Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school cubist mid century modern abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting WPA Woman Artist Kyra Markham Haitian Island Scene African American
By Kyra Markham
Located in Surfside, FL
Kyra Markham (American, 1891-1967)
Haitian Scene, 1962,
Oil on board, Hand signed and dated
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Venezuelan Naive Artist Feliciano Carvallo Oil Painting Latin African American
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil painting of foliage, birds, flowers, tree house.
Framed 34.5 X 19.5 canvas 31 X 16.
Feliciano
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blue Scarf
, 1960
s African American Oil, Study of a Black Woman, Phoenix
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant and psychologically penetrating, American School portrait of a woman, shown in three
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Making a Mojo Large Abstract Oil Painting African American Woman Artist
By Deborah Dancy
Located in Surfside, FL
Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead (born 1949), is a Black American woman painter of
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist
By Americus Long
Located in Surfside, FL
Not much is known about African-American “Outsider Art” painter Americus Long. Long was self
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
1973 Haitian Mod Oil Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil
By Emilcar Similien (SIMIL)
Located in Surfside, FL
Academy of Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince, where he took courses in painting, sculpture, and art history
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African American Cotton field Southern Caronlina Painting, Woman w/ Pipe
By William Aiken Walker
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful 19th C painting by William Aiken Walker (1838 - 1921)
Depicts a
Category
1860s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Road Trip" Ethnic, Urban, Genre, Oil, Regionalism, African American, Signed L/L
Located in Detroit, MI
criticized as African American caricatures, but later altered the painting. He maintained the janitor as the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
African American Realist Painting Sunday Hat Folk Art Outsider Art Andrew Turner
By Andrew Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
into some African American lifestyles and serve as an inspiration to my students and others to continue
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
African American Realist Painting Sunday Hat Folk Art Outsider Art Andrew Turner
By Andrew Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
, these vignettes of experience will help to provide insight into some African American lifestyles and
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Young African American Man
By James Vullo
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic modernist portrait by American artist James Vullo
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Wood
Portrait African American Woman Modernist Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting portrait of an African American woman in a unique coat. The
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Indian Chief by African-American Artist, Contemporary Painting on Paper
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
A work by contemporary African-American artist Bai (Carl Karni-Bain) is a portrait of a black
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen
"Fancy" Female Portrait, Colors, African-American
By John Osler
Located in Detroit, MI
struck us about Osler's work is that it is almost entirely comprised of African Americans. We ask Osler
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Head of a Man
, African American Oil Portrait, Canadian, 1940
s
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Harvey Kruger' (Canadian-American, 1906-1991); additionally signed verso
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of an African-American Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edwin Kosarek (b.1929). Portrait, 1951. Oil on masonite panel, 20 x 24 inches; 25 x 29 inches in
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Expressionist African American Nude Figurative
By Molly E. Brubaker
Located in Soquel, CA
California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922-2000). Signed "Molly Brubaker" on verso. Unframed. Image
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed "Alston" painting: Black African American figures in a Harlem dance hall
By Charles Alston
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a newly framed, ready to hang original mid-20th century oil painting signed "Alston," lower
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"On the Bus" African American bus passenger
By Venet Farber
Located in San Antonio, TX
Venet Farber Image Size: 24 x 18 Frame Size: 26 x 20 Medium: Oil
There is not much known about
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
African American Man Hunting in the Snow
By Frederic Burnett
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: Early 1900s
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 23.50"
Signature: Signed and Dated
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century Portrait of an African American Male
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare unsigned realist portrait of a young African American man in a suit.
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon
Ladies Auxiliary of Shiloh AME (African-American church)
By Earl Hill
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Educator
Nationality African-American
Biographical Information
Born: 1927, New York, NY
Died: 1985
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two 1930
s African American Men Shooting Craps
By Joseph Mazzini Lombardi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 18.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlem Moving Day, African American Scene Black Renaissance Mid 20th Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
Harlem Moving Day, African American Scene Black Renaissance Mid 20th Century WPA, 22 x 14 inches
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Eunice, Figurative Painting on Paper by African American Artist Bai
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
A portrait of an elegant woman with a leopard stole, Eunice, 2025 by African American artist Bai is
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper
Marcita by African American Artist Bai, Colorful Painting on Paper
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
, 2025 by African American artist Bai is 15” x 11” drawing/painting on watercolor paper. Fo the work
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper
Ragvaal
s Capture, Work on Paper by Contemporary African American Artist
By Bai (Carl Karni-Bain)
Located in New york, NY
Ragvaal's Capturel, 2017, by Bai is an acrylic and oil stick work on paper signed on recto (front
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Paper, Oil Crayon
Abstract, Charcoal and Rose
, African-American Woman Artist, Oakland Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
large mid-century, American Abstract oil comprising overlaid and adjacent biomorphic forms in delicately
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Out of Africa
By Tony J. Sisti
Located in Buffalo, NY
Anthony J. (Tony) Sisti (1901–1983) was an American artist, art instructor and patron of the arts
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Black Youth" Young Black Male, Harmonica, Deep Earth Tones, African American
Located in Detroit, MI
"Black Youth" portrays what a typical African American youth may have been doing to earn some cash
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Miniature American Oil Painting, African American subject
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare, very small painting worked in oil on board, depicting a woman working in front of a small
Category
Antique 19th Century American Paintings
Frank H. Shapleigh, American dated 1874. Landscape with African Americans
By Frank Henry Shapleigh
Located in Hallowell, ME
wioth African American subjects and from the South. He visited Florida in about 1876 so this could be
Category
1870s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Dream Of Venus by Noland Anderson, African American Female Goddess
Children
Located in Charleston, SC
African american art
African american artist
African american painting
African-american art
African
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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