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BRHHP 33, Original Signed Contemporary Neutral Toned Monoprint
By Sheila Crider
Located in Boston, MA
through the press to mimic the road and the crumbling wall of the prison.
About the Artist:
My art career
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monoprint
BRRHP 53, Original Signed Contemporary Neutral Toned Monoprint
By Sheila Crider
Located in Boston, MA
press to mimic the road and the crumbling wall of the prison.
About the Artist:
My art career started
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monoprint
BRHHP 35, Original Signed Contemporary Neutral Toned Monoprint
By Sheila Crider
Located in Boston, MA
press to mimic the road and the crumbling wall of the prison.
About the Artist:
My art career started
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monoprint
A Final Tomb for Frank "Jelly" Nash (Hand Signed)
By Robert Morris
Located in New York, NY
between text and art, and it is an example of Morris' preoccupation with the concept of prisons and cells
Category
1980s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Henry Coombes, Sculpture Entitled "Umbrella" 2005; Mixed Media B 1977
By Henry Coombes
Located in London, GB
ultimately can not control, and if we try to hard it becomes dull illustration. I teach art in prison I see
Category
Early 2000s Scottish Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Fabric
“Torso of Christ”
By Malcolm Morley
Located in Southampton, NY
, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he
Category
1980s Post-Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
artist lower right corner
Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison for his "Degenerate
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"From Grief I Cannot Measure" - Collage Compostion
Located in Soquel, CA
maintaining a career as an artist, Moody also worked as the Art Program Director for Pelican Bay State Prison
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
French Folk Art "Prison Art" Matchstick Inlaid Planter With A Star, circa 1930
Located in Antwerp, BE
match sticks. This genre of Folk Art is referred to as "tramp" or "prison" art. As you can imagine the
Category
Early 20th Century French Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Pine
Top Ten: Art and Prisons
By Sam Durant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Research and Cartography: Candice Lin, Sandy de Lissavoy
19th Century French Straw Work Inlaid Folk Art Box
Located in Antwerp, BE
geometric and floral motifs.
Straw work is most associated with the Folk Art genre call prison art. French
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
Home and Prison
By James Casebere
Located in Danvers, MA
Home and Prison, 1993, edition of 24 with 3 artists proofs published by 21 Steps Editions
Category
1990s Post-Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Located in Austin, TX
outside of Folsom Prison, 1968.
Johnny Cash was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Much
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Johnny Cash at Levenworth Prison
Located in Austin, TX
Kansas.
The prison has held some notorious figures during its storied history including former
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Johnny Cash in Front of Folsom Prison Fine Art Print
By J.T. Phillips
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Black and white portrait of Johnny Cash in front of Folsom Prison.
Johnny Cash was an American
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment
Collection of Vintage Prison Weapons and Shivs
Located in Chicago, IL
Collection of vintage prison weapons and shivs.
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Johnny Cash at Cummins prison, 1969
By Al Clayton
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Limited Edition
Please allow extra production time.
Other sizes available.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Box Wood Prisons, Erin Armstrong, Acrylic on Canvas
By Erin Armstrong
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Armstrong's figurative works are juxtapositions of graphic patterns and decisive gestural markings in a variety of media.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Johnny Cash Smoking and Playing at Folsom Prison
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of singer Johnny Cash smoking while visiting Folsom Prison circa 1968
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
El Playboy
By Carlos Ramirez
Located in Jersey City, NJ
posters, prison art and tattoos, Ramirez’s is tremendously resourceful when creating his work and often
Category
20th Century Street Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Med U.S.A
By Carlos Ramirez
Located in Jersey City, NJ
posters, prison art and tattoos, Ramirez’s is tremendously resourceful when creating his work and often
Category
20th Century Street Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood
Vampire Boy
By Carlos Ramirez
Located in Jersey City, NJ
posters, prison art and tattoos, Ramirez’s is tremendously resourceful when creating his work and often
Category
20th Century Street Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Johnny Cash, (Flipping the Bird), San Quentin Prison, 1969
By Jim Marshall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
16 X 20 Inches
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster American Freedom Prison People USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - American Freedom is a Prison for the People The
Category
1950s More Prints
Materials
Paper
An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence 20 x 24 Inch, 2009-2016
By Amy Elkins
Located in Orange, CA
An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence 20 x 24 Inch, 2009-2016
Additional information:
Medium
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence 16 x 20 Inch, 2009-2016
By Amy Elkins
Located in Orange, CA
An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence 16 x 20 Inch, 2009-2016
Additional information:
Medium
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Conversion of the Empress Faustina and Porphryrius, Captain of the Guard, during their Visit to St. Catherine in Prison, his
By Miniature
Located in New York, NY
Museum of Art. (160 x 102 mm.). It joins an important group of Psalter-Hours produced in the last half
Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay 16 x 20 Inch, 2009-2016
By Amy Elkins
Located in Orange, CA
Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay 16 x 20 Inch, 2009-2016
Additional information:
Medium
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay 20 x 24 Inch, 2009-2016
By Amy Elkins
Located in Orange, CA
Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay 20 x 24 Inch, 2009-2016
Additional information:
Medium
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Prison Hulk
Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast" Oil on Canvas, George Gregory
By George Gregory
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
George Gregory
British, (1849-1938)
Prison Hulk & Shipping off the Portsmouth Coast
Oil on
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
Exemplary Prison Art Self-Portrait Painting by Joel Gaines, circa 1970s
By Joel Gaines
Located in Peabody, MA
State prison inmate Joel Gaines. This intimate and highly detailed scene of Gaines' life as an artist
Category
Vintage 1970s American Outsider Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Tall Hand Carved Wood Tramp Art Keepsake Box with Lid on Stand
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Often known as “prison art” the most widely acknowledged term for this lovely carved wood piece of
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
CARCELES (Prison)
By Arturo Garcia Bustos
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARTURO GARCIA BUSTOS (Mexican b. 1926- )
CARCELES (Prisons) c. 1955
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
In The Prison
By Howard Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
: 25.00" x 18.00"
May 1897 Century Magazine, Vol.54 Vol.5 Pg,33
Exhibitions: Allentown Art Museum
Category
1890s Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prison Fantasies 2
By David Alfaro Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Prison Fantasies 2
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican (1896–1974)
Date: 1973
Lithograph on Arches
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Prison Wood Carved Folk Art Plaque "Little Olympics San Quentin", 1942
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Members From the Boys." Rare piece of historical prison Folk Art.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
S. Agata in prison Visited by S. Pietro
Located in Milan, IT
prison, a gray-haired old man entered her cell to medicate her, who revealed himself as St. Peter sent
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Beatrice Cenci in Prison Sketched by Guido Reni"
Located in Astoria, NY
After Achille Leonardi (Italian, 1800-1870), "Beatrice Cenci in Prison Sketched by Guido Reni", Oil
Category
Early 20th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Confiscated Prison Shanks Shivs Presented in a Shadowbox
Located in Wiscasset, ME
These were from a retired guard who worked at a Mississippi prison.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Decorative Art
Sunset. February. Tower of the Bratsk prison. Kolomenskoye
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
This tower in Kolomenskoye Park appeared in 1959 after the flooding of the Bratsk Reservoir. The Bratsk fort was founded in the 1630s on the banks of the Angara River - not far from ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Artistically Arranged Grouping of Prison Shivs/Shanks in Shadow Box
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Part of collection from prison guard that were confiscated over years of employment.
Category
Vintage 1980s American Folk Art More Folk Art
The encrypted prison of time - Fig. I
By Vladimir Velickovic
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1977
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated HC X/XXI
Publisher : Fata Morgana
56.00 cm. x 36.00 cm. 22.05 in. x 14.17 in. (paper)
41.00 cm. x 26.00 cm. 16.14 in....
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Prosper BARBOT (1798 -1877) View of the Melun prison, Oil painting
By Prosper Barbot
Located in Paris, FR
Prosper BARBOT (Nantes, 1798 - Chambellay, 1877)
View of the Melun prison
Oil on paper mounted on
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Prison Fantasies 7, Abstract Lithograph by David Alfaro Siqueiros
By David Alfaro Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Prison Fantasies
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican (1896–1974)
Date: 1973
Lithograph, signed and
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Los Presidios (The Prisons) from Días de Ira — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helios Gomez, 'Los Presidios' (The Prisons), 1929-1930. Signed in the matrix, lower right and
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Black and White
Felix Culpa
, by Phyllis Kornfeld, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Phyllis' book 'Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America,' and she also wrote a chapter for Art Education
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Prison of War Straw Box
Located in London, GB
Mid-20th century prison of war straw box.
A fine example of a mid-20th Century prisoner of war
Category
Mid-20th Century British Folk Art Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Pine
Tankerton Bay Large British Pop Art Screenprint Lithograph
By Malcolm Morley
Located in Surfside, FL
Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Very Rare Collection of Prison Made Weapons Artfully Arranged in a Shadow Box
Located in Wiscasset, ME
State prison guard and his original license to carry from 1962
Measures 14" x 18 1/2"
Category
Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Sculptures
Malcolm Morley 1969 Vintage British Pop Art Screenprint Lithograph Marine w Flag
By Malcolm Morley
Located in Surfside, FL
Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Rectangular Carved Wood Tramp Art or Prison Art Hanging Photo Frame, 1800s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Tramp art is a woodworking style in which small pieces of wood, (primarily from discarded cigar
Category
Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Picture Frames
Materials
Metal
One of a Kind Marlboro Art Chair/ Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
is from the genre of prison art meets Folk Art. The boxes were folded and weaved and took years of
Category
Vintage 1960s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper
Carved Coconut Shell Box from Nicaragua, 1904
Located in Point Richmond, CA
coconut shells are often prison art. Minor repair to crack at the lid.
Category
Antique Early 1900s Nicaraguan Other Decorative Boxes
Materials
Coconut
Toy Prison
By James Rosenquist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Rosenquist, American (1933 - )
Title: Toy Prison
Year: 1972
Medium: Silkscreen
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Prison Folk Art Carved Letter Opener
Located in Ferndale, MI
Souvenir of Marquette Prison
Category
Vintage 1940s American Sculptures and Carvings
Prison Fantasies 1
By David Alfaro Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Prison Fantasies 1
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican (1896–1974)
Date: 1973
Lithograph on Arches
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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- 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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