Fine Art Images of Blacks

In the fine art prints listed below, skin color is visible but peripheral: artists focus attention on other qualities and actions of their black subjects. Though racist sentiment and actions have not disappeared, the arts foreshadow a rising consciousness of civil rights as they expand the spectrum of black images in American visual culture.

• Cyrus LaRoy Baldridge. "Pagan Princess-Nigeria." 1938. Drypoint. 11 x 8 1/4. Signed & titled in pencil. Chicago Society of Etchers; with embossed stamp. Edition of 325. $275

  
  

• Julius Bloch. “The Green Pastures.” Philadelphia: Public Works of Art Project/WPA, c. 1934. Lithograph. 14 x 9 7/8, plus full margins. Archival framing. Very good condition. $750

  
  

• Adolf Arthur Dehn. "Caribbean Processional." Lithograph, 1954. 9 3/4 x 13 3/4. Edition: 250. Signed in pencil. Very good condition. With AAA label. $275

• William Durry. "The Card Players." Etching. 8 3/4 x 10 5/8. Signed in pencil. Inscribed, lower left corner, "To Mr. Woodbury." Very good condition. $275

  
  

• After James Lesene Wells. "The Negro Wage Earner." 7 x 5. Facsimile wood engraving by Earl M. Washington.

  Earl M. Washington has created a series of facsimile woodcuts illustrating black life in the early twentieth century. Though part of a scam, these are fascinating prints. $75.

  
  
  

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