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"Underground Railroad" abstract acrylic linen canvas 116x81cm send wood crate
By Emmanuelle Vroelant
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Underground Railroad" abstract acrylic linen canvas 116x81cm send wood crate C. Whitehead’s book
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Marble

Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Portfolio
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
integral part in the Underground Railroad. Each portfolio also contains a title page, plate titles with
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment, Mixed Media

Eagle Hollow from Hunter’s Bottom. Just across the Ohio River, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Taking Cover with the Fireflies. North of Winchester, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad Framed. Michna-Bales’ work explores the
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

A Brief Respite. Abolitionist William Beard’s house, Union County, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
the Underground Railroad Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred, or
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Moonlight Over the Mississippi, Tensas, Parish, LA
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad. Michna-Bales’ work explores the
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

Twisted Thicket. Lawrence County, Tennessee
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
-Bales Series: Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad Framed. Michna
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

Over the Hills. North Trimble County, Kentucky
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
-Bales Series: Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Framed. Michna
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

Wading Prior to Blackness. Grant Parish, Louisiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Along the Underground Railroad Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

1836-1846 (from Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”) Decade 7
Located in New York, NY
the Underground Railroad Costume by Machine Dazzle for Taylor Mac in “A 24-Decade History of Popular
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Keep Going. Crossing the Tennessee River, Colbert County, Alabama
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad, long-forgotten nuclear fallout shelters, or the
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jefferson County, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad, long-forgotten nuclear fallout shelters, or the
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Look for the Gray Barn Out Back by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2013
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad, long-forgotten nuclear fallout shelters, or the
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

The River Jordan. First view of a free state, crossing the Ohio River to Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
the Underground Railroad Available sizes: Image size 12.5 x 52 inches, Paper size 16.5 x 56 inches
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Digital

Southern Landscape Oil Painting Hudson River School
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
American scenes which often included Underground Railroad imagery and guides for pathways to the north. His
Category

Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Home Away From Home 3" repurposed wood wall hanging
Located in Phoenix, AZ
that were used as a symbolic language in the Underground Railroad, guiding slaves to freedom in the
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood

H.H. Kohlsaat by Carlo de Fornaro
Located in Bristol, CT
abolitionists whose home was reportedly a station on the Underground Railroad. Kohlsaat's siblings included
Category

20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

QUILTING TIME Signed Lithograph, African American Culture, Interior Scene, Quilt
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
worked coded messages into their handmade quilts to pass on information about the Underground Railroad
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Charles McGee Oil Painting "Squares and Things" African-American 1967
By Charles McGee
Located in Detroit, MI
Underground Railroad showed fugitives the road north and to safety. "Squares and Things" was first shown at
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Amber Waves of Grain, Montana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
comprehensive publication of the Underground Railroad series, Through Darkness to Light, was released in 2017 by
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Blue Gem, Washington
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Underground Railroad series, Through Darkness to Light, was released in 2017 by Princeton Architectural Press
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Follow the Drinking Grounds
Located in New Orleans, LA
. Her body is the map, the North Star, rescuer and rescued, all at once. Along the Underground Railroad
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

JAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME
By Faith Ringgold
Located in New York, NY
in New York City. Her second children’s book Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky was
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Permanent Marker, Screen

Topkapi Pullman (based on Mural for Lobby, Suburban Train Station, Philadelphia)
By Joyce Kozloff
Located in New York, NY
office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center, Philadelphia. It features elaborate
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of transportation that
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of transportation that
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Guillaume Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
early 1900s when tourism was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
was still a new idea. Brought on by railroad, steamships, and other forms of transportation that
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Creole Dancer
Creole Dancer
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Aunt Emmy
By Faith Ringgold
Located in South Bend, IN
Five color lithograph addressing the underground railroad, and slaves arriving in the North. This
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

To Be Or Not To Be Free
By Faith Ringgold
Located in South Bend, IN
Eight plate color lithograph addressing the underground railroad, and slaves leaving the South for
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Floating World: Vex
By Sanford Biggers
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
. Quilts were commonly used on the Underground Railroad to convey messages to slaves regarding safe houses
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Stencil

The Floating World: The Pasts They Brought With Them
By Sanford Biggers
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
series of Quilt Drawings. Quilts were commonly used on the Underground Railroad to convey messages to
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Stencil

The Floating World: Otsukimi
By Sanford Biggers
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
. Quilts were commonly used on the Underground Railroad to convey messages to slaves regarding safe houses
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Stencil

The Floating World: Lotus (125th)
By Sanford Biggers
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
Underground Railroad to convey messages to slaves regarding safe houses and information pertinent to their
Category

20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Stencil

Breathing Panel #2
By Nari Ward
Located in New York , NY
Savannah, Georgia. Through research, Ward learned that the church was part of the underground railroad, and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

Breathing Panel #2
Breathing Panel #2
H 62 in W 50 in D 1.75 in
Beach Scene with Three Bathers
By Franz Heckendorf
Located in New York, NY
organize an underground railroad that helped save over 70 Jews and non-Jews from the Gestapo by helping
Category

Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Timbuctoo)
By Casey Ruble
Located in New York, NY
sites in the artist's adopted home state of New Jersey: former safe houses on the Underground Railroad
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper

Untitled (Cranbury)
By Casey Ruble
Located in New York, NY
: former safe houses on the Underground Railroad and locations of Civil Rights Era riots. Today these
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper, Paper

Untitled (Camden)
By Casey Ruble
Located in New York, NY
: former safe houses on the Underground Railroad and locations of Civil Rights Era riots. Today these
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper, Paper

What Happened?
By Casey Ruble
Located in New York, NY
Underground Railroad and locations of Civil Rights Era riots. Today these places are hair salons, empty fields
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Archival Paper, Paper

Fishing on the River, Autumn
By Henry Church
Located in Graton, CA
, Massachusetts. They were strongly opposed to slavery, and their home was a part of the Underground Railroad
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Perry School Kim
Located in Washington, DC
storybook while carrying secret messages like the quilts that lined the path of the Underground Railroad
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

DC Angel
Located in Washington, DC
storybook while carrying secret messages like the quilts that lined the path of the Underground Railroad
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Paintings

Materials

Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

CandyMan
Located in Washington, DC
storybook while carrying secret messages like the quilts that lined the path of the Underground Railroad
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Chatter (Elephant)
By Matt Duffin
Located in Napa, CA
Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad. Most recently, Duffin created the cover image for the
Category

2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Panel

Chatter (Elephant)
H 18 in W 18 in D 3 in
Untitled (Ostrich)
By Matt Duffin
Located in Napa, CA
, The Underground Railroad. Most recently, Duffin created the cover image for the NYTimes bestselling
Category

2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Panel

Untitled (Ostrich)
H 20 in W 20 in D 3 in
Pothead
By Matt Duffin
Located in Napa, CA
Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad. Most recently, Duffin created the cover image for the
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Panel

Pothead
H 20 in W 20 in D 3 in
Snapshot
By Matt Duffin
Located in Napa, CA
Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad. Most recently, Duffin created the cover image for the
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Panel

Snapshot
H 7 in W 7 in D 3 in
"Between You and Me" repurposed wood wall hanging
Located in Phoenix, AZ
that were used as a symbolic language in the Underground Railroad, guiding slaves to freedom in the
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood

"Log Cabin Checkers Board" repurposed wood construction
Located in Phoenix, AZ
traditions of the American South that were used as a symbolic language in the Underground Railroad, guiding
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Wood

"Four Seasons" Abstract Architectural Edition 4/6 (Artist's Proof)
By John Thomas Biggers
Located in Houston, TX
Underground Railroad, as well as the ongoing divide between neighborhoods. This is a meaningful work of art
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
By David Bustill Bowser
Located in New Orleans, LA
Underground Railroad. It was during this time that radical abolitionist John Brown was a guest in his home and
Category

Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil

after Henri Matisse - Fern - Lithograph
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
railroad, steamships, and other forms of transportation that appeared during the industrial revolution
Category

1950s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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Underground Railroad For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate underground railroad for your needs in our varied inventory. There are many contemporary, modern and Expressionist versions of these works for sale. You’re likely to find the perfect underground railroad among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 20th Century as well as those made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding an underground railroad to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, black, beige, brown and more. There have been many interesting underground railroad examples over the years, but those made by Jeanine Michna-Bales, (after) Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse, Franz Heckendorf and Charles McGee are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in lithograph, pigment print and digital pigment print can add an especially memorable touch. A large underground railroad can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller underground railroad, measuring 9.45 high and 9.45 wide, may better suit your needs.

How Much is a Underground Railroad?

The price for an underground railroad in our collection starts at $1,411 and tops out at $45,000 with the average selling for $4,400.