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Langston Hughes, America Martin, ink portrait- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

Langston Hughes No.4_ America Martin, ink quote- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Ink

SUNRISE IS COMING AFTER WHILE
Located in Portland, ME
(Beasley, Phoebe)illus. SUNRISE IS COMING AFTER WHILE by Langston Hughes. Six of Hughes
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1990s Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Portrait of Manual Komroff
By Carl Van Vechten
Located in New York, NY
, and established cultural figures of the time; including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Manual
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1930s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Offset Lithograph signed & warmly Inscribed to African American Arts prof Framed
By Sam Gilliam
Located in New York, NY
and columnist assistant to Langston Hughes, Associated Negro Press, 1965; special feature writer (film
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset, Ink

Esther Podemski, Color Correction_15, 2015, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
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2010s Post-Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital Pigment

Esther Podemski, Color Correction_3, 2014, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
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2010s Post-Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital Pigment

Esther Podemski, Color Correction_024 Template, 2014, Digital Pigment Print
By Esther Podemski
Located in Darien, CT
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
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2010s Post-Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Digital Pigment

Lullaby: Jacob Lawrence wife, mother & child family embrace in abstract interior
By Gwendolyn Knight
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Charles Alston, Ralph Ellison, Alain Locke, Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden
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1990s Abstract Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled (Letitia, pregnant with Rising Sun)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
collections. Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

America's Daughter
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

America's Son
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jazmen
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African
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2010s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Jazmen
Jazmen
H 14 in W 10.44 in
Sammy Lee Sleeping II
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Graphite

"RIVER", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, monuments
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pencil, Gouache

"PENINSULAR", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, citrus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

"DUST", ink, pencil, watercolor, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, time
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

"TOWN", ink, pencil, watercolor, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, alabama
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pencil, Watercolor

"KNAP SACK", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston, florida
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

"HOUSE CALLS", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

"PREACHING", ink, pencil, gouache, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

"FIVE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, poetry, erasure, zora neale hurston
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

NO PLACE LIKE HOME Signed Lithograph, Black Family, Vintage Kitchen Scene
By Louis Delsarte
Located in Union City, NJ
Horne, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. These influences along with his knowledge and
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Big Momma's Still Life #2
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Untitled (Man at Desk)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended. After graduating in 1925, he attended Columbia
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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

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Conceptual Sculptural by Isaac Aden / A Dream Deflated (After Langston Hughes)
By Isaac Aden
Located in New York, NY
(After Langston Hughes) Bear Traps and Basketballs 14 x 120 x 26 in Edition of 3 + 2 A.P. 2014
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2010s Conceptual Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Untitled
By Charles Alston
Located in East Hampton, NY
their heritage and to each other. Other members included Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Addiction
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
1949 to 1950. Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston
Category

1970s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Compo B
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
1949 to 1950. Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston
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1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Compo B
H 36 in W 24 in
Untitled
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
1949 to 1950. Regular contributors to this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston
Category

1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Untitled
H 30 in W 22 in
Flutter
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Accents Red
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

This One
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Tangerine
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Side Entrance
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stones
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
Arts Gallery, LIU, Southampton, New York, Abstract Paintings, 1989. Langston Hughes Cultural Center
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Langston Hughes
By Richard Merkin
Located in Hudson, NY
stretched with no frame
Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cotton Club
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robeson, Al Jolson, Mae West, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Langston Hughes
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Let America Be America Again, Collage of Text on Paper with Geometric Shapes
By Meg Hitchcock
Located in Kent, CT
America Again" by Langston Hughes is written out in tiny letters cut from "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Graphite, Paint, Archival Paper

America's Son II (Sonny)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
collections. Past Guggenheim Fellowship Award winners include Ansel Adams, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Black Youth" Young Black Male, Harmonica, Deep Earth Tones, African American
Located in Detroit, MI
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and Langston Hughes's Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927). He also created a
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Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist
By Americus Long
Located in Surfside, FL
this short-lived publication included Arnold Kramer, Langston Hughes and Benjamin Brown. Long
Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

America's Mom II (Small Leticia, the artist's wife)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, and Isamu Noguchi. He has exhibited at the Resource Center of African
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Ted Joans Jazz Surrealist Poet
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
individuals, among them Langston Hughes, Michel Leiris, Aimé Césaire, Robert Creeley, Jayne Cortez, Stokely
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1950s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

"Saturday Night" Local Genre, Figurative, Dance, Harlem Renaissance, Signed
By Charles Alston
Located in Detroit, MI
jazz albums, as well as book jackets for Langston Hughes and Eudora Welty. Alston enjoyed a successful
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

JAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME
By Faith Ringgold
Located in New York, NY
resident community of Harlem, New York; Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived around the corner, along
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Permanent Marker, Screen

RECOLLECTION POND
By Romare Bearden
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Baldwin, Stuart Davis, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Joan Miró, George Grosz, Alvin
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1970s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned African American ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS.
By Jacob Lawrence
Located in Portland, ME
Lawrence, Jacob. THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS. THE KING JAMES VERSION. Limited Editions Club, NY 1989. Copy Number 204 of the edition of 400 copies, signed in pencil by Ja...
Category

1980s Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Groucho Marx , America Martin, portrait with ink- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Ink

James Baldwin 6, America Martin, ink portrait- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
AMERICA MARTIN "James Baldwin No.6" Ink on Paper (Framed) 44.5" x 33.5" A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

Groucho Marx No.3, America Martin, ink portrait- portion of sale to ACLU/NAACP
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
A portion of each sale will be donated to the ACLU + NAACP JoAnne Artman Gallery proudly introduces America Martin’s new series "I See Heroes Everywhere." Addressing the theme of h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

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Prices for pieces in our collection of langston hughes start at $600 and top out at $4,500 with the average selling for $650.