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

Araucanian Man

Unidentified (South American?)

Portrait of Frances C. Houston

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938

Susanne Correy

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Self-Portrait with Jabot

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

Cafe at Biskra, Algeria

Frederic Arthur Bridgman, born Tuskegee, AL 1847-died Rouen, France 1928

Cabin Door Still Life

Richard La Barre Goodwin, born Albany, NY 1840-died Orange, NJ 1910

Ellen Day Hale

Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown, born Philadelphia, PA 1857-died Ambler, PA 1944

St. Luke

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

Laura at Seven

Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, French, born Lille, France 1838-died Paris, France 1917

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston, born London, England-died Bath, England; active USA 1742-1775

Untitled (sunset with quarter moon and farmhouse)

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

Ralph Cross Johnson

Ernest Moore, English, born Barnsley, England 1865-died 1940

Jane Stone

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Sundown

George Inness, born Newburgh, NY 1825-died Bridge of Allan, Scotland 1894

Portrait of a Woman (Miss Gertrude Bloede)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921

Brother-in-law of Mrs. Alexander Rose

Archibald Robertson, born Moneymusk, Scotland-died New York City 1835

Gathering Mists

Charles Warren Eaton, born Albany, NY 1857-died Glen Ridge, NJ 1937

Soldat de Crimée

Harriet Blackstone, born New Hartford, NY 1864-died New York City 1939

Bód-a-sin, Chief of the Tribe

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

Flying Dutchman

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

Employment of Negroes in Agriculture

Earle Richardson, born New York City 1912-died New York City 1935

Laura at Fifteen

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

The Fur Coat

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

Stevenson Memorial

Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921

Scalp Dance, Sioux

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

Piro Boy

Unidentified (South American?)

A Member of the Livingston Family

John Smibert, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1688-died Boston, MA 1751

Joseph Lavoir de Repiton

Francis Rabineau, active 1791-1808

Caballero de la familia Figueras Suro

Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

S. Stone

Unidentified

Lady of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, born Leverett, MA 1805-died Plumtrees, MA 1900

Untitled (landscape, woodcutter on path)

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

Night and Her Daughter Sleep

Mary L. Macomber, born Fall River, MA 1861-died Boston, MA 1916

The Boy with the Arrow

Douglas Volk, born Pittsfield, MA 1856-died Fryeburg, ME 1935

Portrait of a Lady

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Mary

Nina Nash Cron, born Spokane, WA 1882-1946

Member of the Carroll Family

Unidentified

Portrait of Sanford Saltus of New York

Frank Edwin Scott, born Buffalo, NY 1863-died Paris, France 1929

Chapo Indian

Unidentified (South American?)

Industry

Arthur Durston, born Farnsborough, England 1889-died Los Angeles, CA 1938

Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray

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

The Chinese Fishmonger

Theodore Wores, born San Francisco, CA 1859-died San Francisco, CA 1939

Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.

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

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent, born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925

Ballerine

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

Portrait of a Child

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Piro Indian Chief

Unidentified (South American?)

Bright Light at Russell's Corners

George Ault, born Cleveland, OH 1891-died Woodstock, NY 1948

Joseph W. Faber

Charles Fraser, born Charleston, SC 1782-died Charleston, SC 1860

Ariadne

Wyatt Eaton, born Philipsburg, Quebec 1849-died Newport, RI 1896

Hulda Martin in her 55 year

Frederick Mayhew, born Chilmark, MA 1785-died Cambridge, OH 1854

Portrait of Freeman Cary

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

Mordecai Manuel Noah

John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893

Samuel Hopkins Lambdin

James Reid Lambdin, born Pittsburgh, PA 1807-died KY 1889

Farm Interior: Breton Children Feeding Rabbits

William Henry Lippincott, born Philadelphia, PA 1849-died New York City 1920

Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla

Mary Cassatt, born Allegheny City, PA 1844-died Mesnil-Theribus, France 1926

Roman Charity

Unidentified (Italian)

Portrait of a Gentleman

Unidentified (British)

Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Head of the Queen of Egypt

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