Public domain art in black

Artworks whose dominant colour is black, measured from the image itself rather than from a curator's tag. Every work here is free to download and reuse.

Works in Public domain art in black

Visit of the Prince of Wales, President Buchanan, and Dignitaries to the Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, October 1860

Thomas P. Rossiter, born New Haven, CT 1818-died Cold Spring, NY 1871

Landscape with Stagecoach

Henry Boese, born NY ca. 1824-died New York City 1897

Unmasked

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

Eye

Unidentified (British)

James Monroe

Joseph Castel, French, born Nice, France 1798-died Rome, Italy 1856

St. Jerome

William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916

Barnabus Bates

Unidentified

Head of a Jew in Palestine

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Don José Mas Ferrer

José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809

Edge of the Forest, Twilight

Charles H. Davis, born Amesbury, MA 1856-died Mystic, CT 1933

Romantic Landscape

Robert S. Duncanson, born Fayette, NY 1821-died Detroit, MI 1872

John Beale Bordley

Joseph Robinson, English, born ca. 1768-died ?

Little Eagle, "Wad-ben-de-ba"

Unidentified

Portrait of a Gentleman

P. E. Stroëhling, Russian, born Dusseldorf, Germany 1768-died London, England ca. 1826

My Daughter Gladys

Irving R. Wiles, born Utica, NY 1861-died Peconic, NY 1948

A Greater Morning

Arthur B. Davies, born Utica, NY 1862-died Florence, Italy 1928

Portrait of a Gentleman

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Untitled (La Bella)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Portrait of a Gentleman

Henry Inman, born Utica, NY 1801-died New York City 1846

Mr. Veacock

Thomas Birch, born Warwickshire, England 1779-died Philadelphia, PA 1851

Callers

Walter Ufer, born Louisville, KY 1876-died Santa Fe, NM 1936

William Lampas

Unidentified

Moses, Aaron and Hur on Mount Horeb

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Metropolitan Port

Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946

A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo

Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926

Aymara Youth

Unidentified (South American?)

Pastoral Study

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Portrait of a Young Man (Seminole Indian)

Unidentified

Self-Portrait

James Henry Moser, born Whitby, Ontario, Canada 1854-died Washington, DC 1913

The Silver Hand Glass

Kenyon Cox, born Warren, OH 1856-died New York City 1919

Tree Landscape

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Dressing for the Rehearsal

Seymour Joseph Guy, born Greenwich, England 1824-died New York City 1910

Abraham Lincoln

George H. Story, born New Haven, CT 1835-died New York City 1922

Portrait of a Boy with a Whip

Unidentified

Spirit of Christmas

Carl Newman, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died Abington, PA 1932

Corner of the Terrace, Versailles

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

Laura in Blacks

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Florizel and Perdita

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Family Group before United States Capitol

Unidentified

Christ Tempted by the Devil

John Ritto Penniman, born Milford, MA 1782-died Baltimore, MD 1841

Boy Playing Marbles

David Gilmour Blythe, born East Liverpool, OH 1815-died Pittsburgh, PA 1865

Moonlight, Indian Encampment

Ralph Albert Blakelock, born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919

John Quincy Adams

Unidentified

Mother and Child

Unidentified

Mrs. George Watson

John Singleton Copley, born Boston, MA 1738-died 1815 London, England

Magnolia Blossoms

Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948

Mary Livingston Colin Crounse

Christoffel Wüst, born France 1801-died after 1859

General John Cadwalader

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials C. B.

Unidentified

Caballero con lentes de la familia Canals

Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Christopher Burdick

Unidentified

Italian Boy in Sheepskin Jacket

Pierre-Louis-Joseph de Coninck, French, born Meteren, France 1828-died Meteren, France 1910

Elizabeth Du Hamel?

Henry Jacob Burch, Jr., English, born 1763-died after 1834

Two Women in an Italian Landscape

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Untitled--Picnic Scene

J. M. Tracy, born Rochester, OH 1844-died Ocean Springs, MS 1893

Portrait of Harlan Stone

Henry Salem Hubbell, born Paola, KS 1870-died Miami, FL 1949

Member of the Mayfield Family

George Place, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland 1760 or 1775-died Lucknow, India 1805 or 1809

Castle Creek Canyon, South Dakota

Franklin De Haven, born Bluffon, IN 1856-died New York City 1934

Mother (Annie Williams Gandy)

Thomas Eakins, born Philadelphia, PA 1844-died Philadelphia, PA 1916

(Underpass--New York)

Unidentified