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Africa - Collage Painting in Orange - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
African American artist Alvin Hollingsworth created an inventive and intriguing close-up portrait
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Burlap, Wood, Oil
H 18.2 in W 24.4 in D 2 in
Pardner, 1943 Vintage African American Art, Black Artist, Painting, Pet Portrait
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
-Herald's outdoor art fair. This painting was executed the following year when he was 15 (1943). That same
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
African American Realist Oil Painting Baseball Outsider Folk Art Andrew Turner
By Andrew Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
the legacy of African American participation in the arts."
Folk Artist, Outsider artist, Folk Art. His
Category
1970s American Realist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Frank Alan, 70s painting of African-American man
Located in San Francisco, CA
Frank Allen 70s painting of African-American man dressed in a white robe and top hat. Oil on canvas
Category
1970s Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Alabama Surreal Folk Art Oil Painting African American Woman, Flower Headdress
By Maltby Sykes
Located in Surfside, FL
" written on the stretcher verso
It is a Surrealist Folk Art figure of an African woman oil painting on
Category
1960s Folk Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Improvisation abstract African-American artist painting.
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans
Category
1980s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Folk Art Mexican Girl 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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
recognition. Kosh’s work is noted in the catalog Yet Still, We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland 1920
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Slate Stone Collage Painting - African American Artist
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting/collage that
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Stone, Slate
H 18.2 in W 24.45 in D 2 in
20th C. Figurative Abstract Painting Cleveland School African American Artist
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
.
Kosh’s work is noted in the catalog Yet Still, We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland 1920 – 1970 and
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20th Century American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Florida Oil Painting African American Woman Art Annie Nobles Miller Indian River
Located in Surfside, FL
African-American Florida working class people who wanted to paint. Following is the explanation of that
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
The painting
Category
1990s Outsider Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"The First Time on Telephone" Black African American Folk Painting
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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Crayon
African American Sitting Portrait
By Arnold Blanch
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
social-realist American life with mystical overtones and a child-like seeming style. He was also a
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Vintage African American Art 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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Central Railroad' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
recognition. Kosh’s work is noted in the catalog Yet Still, We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland 1920
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, India Ink
African American Artist Charles Bohannah (1910- 1985) oil painting, portrait
Located in Framingham, MA
, titled "Sun and Shade".
Signed in the lower-left corner by Listed African-American Artist Charles
Category
1960s Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 23.5 in W 19.5 in D 2 in
Home, African Village Scene Orange Sky, African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
African mother with two children standing outside her "Home." The work is created by African American
Category
1970s Post-War Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Pair of African American Portraits
By Josef Presser
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Josef Presser (Poland, United States, 1907 - 1967)
“Pair of African American Portraits”
9 x 7
Category
1940s Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Mixed Media Painting African American Woman Artist Cheryl Warrick
Located in Surfside, FL
Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956),
"By Ones By Twos"
Acrylic mixed media on panel, 1999,
Hand
Category
1990s Contemporary Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
Village in Benin Africa - African American Artist Paints Africa in the 1970s
Located in Miami, FL
landscape by an African American artist. It is characterized by flat pattens of bold color and distorted
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Photographic Paper
Charles McGee Oil Painting "Squares and Things" African-American 1967
By Charles McGee
Located in Detroit, MI
work incorporating the homely quilt - the powerful symbol of the African American road to safety from
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Mid Century Portrait of an African American Man
By Genevieve Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figure study of an African American man by American Impressionist artist Genevieve
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Oil
Trucks in the City African American Self-Taught Florida Outsider Folk Art Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
Trucks in the City by African American, Folk, Self-Taught, Florida, Outsider Art Purvis Young Urban
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Mamas Shock" African American Black Folk Artist
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins (Born 1930) Born Galveston Texas Artist Image Size: 28 x 21.75 Medium: Oil "Mama's Shock"
Category
1970s Folk Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
'6th City Wire Works' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
By Charles Elmer Harris
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
the Sho Nuff Art Group, a collective of African-American artists, and Karamu House, a center for
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract 1964 - South African sixties abstract art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This fantastic Sixties abstract oil painting on paper on canvas is by noted South African artist
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 43 in W 35 in D 2 in
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 period frame. Signed and dated on verso.
Edwin Kosarek
Born: 1929
Studied: The Ci...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil
By Emilcar Similien (SIMIL)
Located in Surfside, FL
Port-au-Prince, where he took courses in painting, sculpture, and art history. Simil uses his images of
Category
1970s Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Canvas
Nude Figures, Metallic Gold Ground, African American Artist - Black Artist
Located in Miami, FL
, African American Artist. comic-strip illustrator and painter was born in New York City and began drawing
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Portrait by African American Artist Charleston Wilson
Located in Larchmont, NY
period,Charleston Wilson also painted fine art to be sold. African-American artist Joseph Delaney created
Category
1970s Realist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
H 25.25 in W 21.25 in D 1 in
Latin American Folk Art Family Portrait Colombian Naive Painting, Color Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Folk art, Naive, Latin American art , Family portrait in the style of a Chinese ancestor portrait
Category
1970s Folk Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
American Artist Abstract Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
.
She married Oscar H. Hunter, an African-American writer, in 1946. Together they founded a wallpaper
Category
Mid-20th Century Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paint
Devil: No Horns, Burning in Hell, African American Harlem Renaissance
Located in Miami, FL
representational and abstract art.
In the summer of 1963, Hollingsworth and fellow African-American artists Romare
Category
1970s Expressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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 Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Abstract, Charcoal and Rose', African-American Woman Artist, Oakland Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
African-American artist and educator first studied at Dillard University, Louisiana where she received her
Category
1960s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 28 in W 25.75 in D 0.75 in
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
artwork, and 1950 he became the first African-American instructor at the Art Students League, where he
Category
1930s American Realist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Beautiful Maidens Nude Women Harem, Playboy Cartoon African American Illustrator
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbel was the first major African American Illustrator. He did covers for Esquire
Category
1960s Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
American museums and collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Ink
Exodus 12 - African American Artist - colorful abstract red orange purple pink
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
African American to receive a Hite Art Scholarship and its first African-American fine arts graduate. He
Category
1980s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African American Mother and Child by Peggy Dodds Circa 1940's
By Peggy Dodds
Located in Rochester, NY
Fashionably dressed African American mother and child by Peggy Dodds (1900-1987). Large oil on
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 46 in W 30 in D 1 in
Portrait of African American Woman by Anthony Sisti Circa 1930's
Located in Rochester, NY
Portrait of an African American Woman by Tony Sisti (1901-1983). Sisti was a master draftsman. With
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
H 29 in W 25 in D 1.5 in
Nude. African American Woman exhibited piece 1942 University of Iowa exhibited
By Coreen Mary Spellman
Located in San Antonio, TX
; National Exhibition of American Art,
Rockefeller Center, New York; Greater Texas and PanAmerican
Category
1940s Impressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
EXODUS 28 African-American Artist colorful abstract red orange green purple pink
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
entered the University of Louisville to study visual art in his forties. He was the first African American
Category
1980s Abstract Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian American Modernist Pattern Painting Key West Kitty Cat Piero Aversa Art
Located in Surfside, FL
10.25" (Board) H 5" x W 7"
Piero Aversa was born in Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa, educated at the
Category
1970s Post-Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
connected to the “Sho Nuff Art Group”, a group of African-American artists, and the Karamu House artist
Category
1950s Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magic Realist Surrealist Latin American Naive Fantasy Painting
By German Ramon Duron Lanza
Located in Surfside, FL
Magic realist fantasy painting in the manner of Ernst Fuchs and Arik Brauer.
Naïve art is any form
Category
20th Century Folk Art Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Words to the Wise', African American Memento Mori, Skeletons, Bay Area, Black
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on palette, lower right, 'John Diallo Jones' (American, 20th century) and dated 1992.
A
Category
1970s Expressionist Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
1940s Oil Painting Portrait of Two Figures, American Modernist Figurative
By Angelo Di Benedetto
Located in Denver, CO
. Image measures 28 x 38 inches, framed dimensions are 33 ¾ x 39 ¾ inches.
Painting is in good condition
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 33.75 in W 39.75 in D 3.25 in
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil, Board
African Reflection
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Bernard Beck is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist. His trademark ice cream and colorful
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Artist's Wife with Fruit, 1945 American Modern Oil Painting
By Hayes Lyon
Located in Denver, CO
same year his painting, Mount Evans, was included as one of Colorado’s entries in the American Art
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 35.25 in W 29.25 in D 1.75 in
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage African American Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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Vintage African American Art Paintings For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, there are several options of vintage african american art paintings available for sale. There are many Expressionist, Modern and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Vintage african american art paintings available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes brown, black, gray, orange and more. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Bernard Harmon, Andrew Turner, Johnny Banks, Roland Ayers and Charles Elmer Harris are consistently popular. Frequently made by artists working in paint, oil paint and canvas, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.
How Much are Vintage African American Art Paintings?
The average selling price for vintage african american art paintings we offer is $3,500, while they’re typically $250 on the low end and $45,000 for the highest priced.
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