20th C. American Artist Raoul Middleman (1935-2021). African American Female Nud
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
LARGE PAINTING African American Female Nude RAOUL MIDDLEMAN Baltimore Maryland Large abstract expressionist painting of a seated African American female nude. By 20th c. American a...
Canvas, Paint
$18,000
Portrait of African American Man Drinking titled "Evening Revelry"
By Francis William Edmonds
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This expressive painting by Francis William Edmunds offers a compelling glimpse into 19th-century American genre painting, a field in which Edmunds was a recognized master. Known for...
Canvas, Oil
Antique Map of the Southern Oceans, South America and Africa
Located in New York, NY
Antique Map of the South Atlantic, c. 1800s Engraving 20 x 28 in. Framed: 25 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.
Engraving
Antique Hand-Stitched Southern Quilt, African American Folk Wall Art, 63" x 73"
Located in Barrington, IL
Dimensions: 63” x 73” Date of Manufacture: 3rd Quarter of the 1800s Place of Origin: United States Material: Cotton, wool Condition: Original condition with some wear throughout ...
Wool, Cotton
African Brass Plant Stand / Vide-Poche — Pierced Botanical Decor
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
19th-Century African Brass Plant Stand / Vide-Poche — Pierced Botanical Decor Description: This is a beautiful 19th-century African brass plant stand or vide-poche, crafted with gre...
Brass
The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers - FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 8vo, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (220 x 146 mm); 605 pp. Profusely illustrated, with a rear folding map in color, which has a 2-inch t...
Gold Leaf
Large Mammals Print: Elephant, Rhino, Hippo & Tapir – Antique 1867
Located in Langweer, NL
Created for educational use, it illustrates powerful animals from Africa, Asia, and South America, teaching 19th-century students about global zoological diversity.
Paper
$5,400
Benton_Mary Church Terrell Life Cycle_monoprint, collage, Oberlin College Women
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
$5,400
Benton, Anna Julia Cooper, monoprint with Chine collé, Oberlin College Women
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Monoprint, Laid Paper
Benton_Mary Church Terrell Over Time_monoprint and collage, Oberlin College Women
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
$5,400
Benton, Spirit of Hope (Alice Paul) monoprint with Chine collé, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
$5,400
Benton, The Suffragist(Alice Pau), monoprint with Chine collé, Pioneer Activist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
$1,800
Benton, Ida Gibbs Hunt, Class of 1884, monoprint with Chine collé, Oberlin
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
$1,800
Benton, The Gaze (Dorothy Canfield Fisher) monoprint with Chine collé, Feminist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Silver
$1,800
Benton, Catherine Marya Sedgewick, monoprint with Chine collé, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
$2,640
Benton, Susan B. Anthony the Elder, monoprint with Chine collé, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
Benton, Votes for Women, monoprint with Chine collé, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Laid Paper, Monoprint
$1,800
Benton, Antoinette B Blackwell and the Blue Circle, monoprint, Oberlin College
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
Benton, Carrie Chapman Catt, monoprint with Chine collé, Pioneer Activist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
Benton, Mabel Loomis Todd, monoprint with Chine collé, Pioneer Activist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
$2,640
Benton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Daughter, monoprint, PioneerActivist
By Suzanne Benton
Located in Darien, CT
The Oberlin College Library offered their photo archive of early women attendees and graduates that also including African American women. The artist exhibited 19th Century Women at ...
Gold Leaf
African Agapanthus, or Blue Lily, a native of the Cape
By Frances Jauncey Ketchum
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): FJK
Watercolor
Sold
H 8 in W 10 in
"Flowers in a Blue Vase, Still Life, " Floral Lilac Early African-American Artist
Located in New York, NY
He traveled to London and Paris in the 1880s to continue his studies, a pattern followed by nearly all 19th-century American painters who had the means to do so.
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Frederick Douglas, by Jos Sances
By Jos Sances
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A former slave, he became one of the most famous abolitionist and an leader in the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Screen
Mary Brown's Sampler
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
It was not common for a girl, especially for a young African American girl in the 19th century, to learn to read, let alone go to school. --- Kat Flyn is a self-taught assemblage ...
Mixed Media
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.
Canvas, Oil Crayon
Sold
H 0.5 in W 71 in D 69 in
19th Century African American Southern Quilt Possibly of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
Located in Barrington, IL
It is astonishingly similar to the 19th century quilts made by African Americans around the Gee’s Bend, Alabama in the Southern Region of the United States.
Wool, Cotton
African American Pine Burr Quilt Late 19th Century, Ex. Demme Collection
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Very graphic African American pine burr quilt. The subtle colors on this quilt have faded down over the years to an almost monochromatic tone. The diminutive size of this quilt make ...
Cotton, Linen
Sold
H 29.93 in W 25.79 in D 1.19 in
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
By Lois Mailou Jones
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaiss...
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Antique Hand-Stitched Quilt, African American Folk Art, Civil War Era
Located in Barrington, IL
Dimensions: 63” x 73” Date of Manufacture: 3rd Quarter of the 1800s Place of Origin: Alabama, United States Material: Cotton, wool Condition: Some wear throughout The Persian Kno...
Wool, Cotton
Sold
H 13 in W 4.5 in D 4 in
Austrian Painted Figure of a African American Boy, Signed Bernhard Bloch ca 1900
By Bernhard Bloch
Located in Petaluma, CA
This very lifelike figure of a young American black boy is a fine example of the work of Bernhard Block. The underside bears his signature "BB". He worked mainly in terracotta and w...
Terracotta
19th Century Adam and Eve Sampler
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A Rare African American themed 19th century Adam and Eve Sampler, in a birds eye maple frame.
Linen, Glass, Birdseye Maple
Frederick Douglas
By Jos Sances
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A former slave, he became one of the most famous abolitionist and an leader in the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Screen
Sold
H 11.62 in W 15.95 in D 0 in
Voting by Ballot in the United States Published in The Graphic, November 6, 1872
Located in Langweer, NL
Wood engraving was the primary method used for illustrations in *The Graphic*, and this print has been hand-colored to enhance the depth and richness of the scene. --- Keywords: Vot...
Paper
2 Volumes. Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa. Bound in full brown morocco with the covers displaying open-tooled borders and gilt-tooled label lettering. The spines display raised ...
Leather
20th Century "Faux Cheetah" Stenciled Rug
By American Leather
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large, luxurious hide stenciled to appear as a cheetah. May be used over hard wood floors, rugs or as a throw over a bed or lounge. Colored in ivory, black, brown and caramel.
Cowhide, Leather
African American Weathervane
Located in Summerland, CA
African American Weathervane/Trade Sign
Sheet metal and polychrome. Double sided.
Punched eye and ears.
Sheet Metal
Sold
H 26 in W 10.5 in D 8.5 in
Johann Maresch Terracotta Figure an African American Boy, 19th century
By Johann Maresch
Located in New York, NY
Modelled holding a pewter chamber stick, wearing a fez, impressed marks 'J. M. 6454' 25.3/4 in. (65.5 cm.) high Medium polychrome decorated terracotta. Year of work, circa 1900. ...
Terracotta
Head of an African-American Jockey
Located in Litchfield, CT
Although many jockeys in the mid-nineteenth century were African-American, very few sculptures and figures were produced. Provenance: Collection of Gerald Kornblau
Iron
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 cabin with a leaning chimney with smoke rising from it; a large fenced in haystack sta...
Antique African Tribal Asana Wood Sculpture
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Antique African Asana sculpture
Sold
H 9 in W 7 in D 10 in
18th Century Oak and Iron Mounted Memento Mori Doorstop Carved as a Human Skull
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
Although mankind had thought of various ways to keep doorways open prior to Victorian times, the way in which we now expect a door stop to look and function today was down to a 19th ...
Iron
$8,135
H 29.93 in W 25.99 in D 2.76 in
Painting 19th century Genre Scene Landscape With Characters
By Eduard Niczky
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Niczky Edouard (1850 – 1919) Love date in 19th century Oil on canvas signed low left Old original frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 61 X 52 cm Dim frame : 76 X 66 cm Certificate ...
Oil
$10,692Sale Price|20% Off
H 15.75 in W 18.12 in
Still Life with Oysters - The earliest known still life in Swedish art history
Located in Stockholm, SE
This previously unpublished painting was first securely attributed to Govert Dircksz Camphuysen in 1944, following an examination at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm during which the ...
Oak, Oil, Wood Panel
$7,250
H 16 in W 22 in
17th century follower of Rubens, two military men on horse back in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
17th century English/Dutch School, from the Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens A very interesting and well-painted 17th-century oil on canvas of two men seated on horseback in a landsc...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 8.19 in W 6.75 in
'Sisters' — Renowned Black American, Harlem Renaissance Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide...
Linocut
$2,789
H 14.18 in W 11.82 in
Portrait of an Old Bearded Man With a Black Cap
By Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to offer a captivating portrait, most likely painted in the late 18th century, attributed to an artist within the circle of Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. This oil ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,495Sale Price|48% Off
H 45 in W 35 in D 3 in
Large Antique American Bahamian Young Woman Portrait Signed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted portrait by Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982). Oil on canvas. Framed in a nice modernist molding. Signed. ...
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 26 in W 32 in
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right. BIO David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958...
Paper, Watercolor
$2,240Sale Price|20% Off
H 18 in W 22 in D 3 in
Fine Impressionist American School Oil on Canvas; Family Picnic or Outing, 1925
Located in Baltimore, MD
This lovely impressionist painting portrays what appears to be a family outing or picnic. There are many beautifully dressed women with their children in a park setting. Oddly, wha...
Oil
$11,362Sale Price|20% Off
H 42.92 in W 55.91 in
Leda Swan Mythological Paint oil on canvas French Painter 18th Century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
French painter of the late 18th-early 19th century Leda and the Swan (Literary source: Metamorphoses by Ovid, Book VI) Oil on canvas 95 x 126 cm Framed 109 x 142 cm This c...
Oil
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 29 in W 25 in
"A Martinique Native in French Guyana, " Black Female Portrait, Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
May Mott Smith (1879 - 1952) A Martinique Native in French Guiana, circa 1925 Watercolor on paper 24 x 20 inches Signed lower right; titled on the reverse “Martinique Native” is an ...
Paper, Watercolor
$4,500
H 19.5 in W 25.5 in D 2.5 in
Antique American Flag w/ Hand-Written Inscriptions Mourning the Death of FDR
Located in York County, PA
48 STARS ON ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-WRITTEN INSCRIPTIONS AND AN EMBROIDERED DATE OF APRIL 12TH, 1945, MOURNING THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: American na...
Cotton
$4,750
H 38 in W 29 in D 2 in
Ashcan School Early Antique American Impressionist Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted antique American school oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 29 by 38 inches overall and 23 by 32 painting alone. Unsigned. Painted in a striking Ashcan s...
Canvas, Oil
$9,500
H 23.5 in W 27.5 in D 1 in
"Vision of Angels, " Important Night-Time Scene, WPA Era, African American Artist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although not signed, this brilliant scene of a nude black male figure, marvelling at a vision of angels in the heaven from his position on the ground below, is reminiscent of the ear...
Paint
$9,500
H 31.5 in W 26.25 in D 1.5 in
“Guitar Player in Recife, Brazil, 1886” Pernambuco Brazilian Coast Oil Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
“Guitar Player in Recife, Brazil, 1886” by Ferdinand Piereck (1844-1925) An extremely rare 19th century painting of a Brazilian guitarist by Austrian-Brazilian artist Ferdinand Pier...
Canvas, Oil
Neo-Renaissance Period Stone Fireplace, Dated 1534
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This outstanding Tonnerre stone fireplace is a masterpiece of the first French Renaissance. It was sculpted in 1534, under the reign of King François the 1st for Philippe Merlan (150...
Stone
$88,500
H 33 in W 41.25 in D 4.38 in
La Fête Foraine De Nuit À Batz-Sur-Mer By Ferdinand Du Puigaudeau
By Ferdinand du Puigaudeau
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau 1864-1930 French La fête foraine de nuit à Batz-sur-Mer (The Nighttime Fair at Batz-sur-Mer) Signed "F. du Puigaudeau" (lower right) Oil on canvas Glowing...
Canvas, Oil