Robert Colescott

American | 1925 - 2009

Robert Colescott was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1925. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Galerie Buchholz, Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as BLUM, Los Angeles have featured Robert Colescott's work in the past.Robert Colescott's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 100 USD to 15,315,900 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 15,315,900 USD for George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2021. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 66,599 USD.Robert Colescott has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in May 2025. The artist died in 2009.

Artist's alternative names: Robert H. Colescott

Featured for Sale

Cactus Jack ,1977

By Robert Colescott

Sotheby's New York

The Explorer ,1996

By Robert Colescott

Bonhams New York

Of Time and Place ,1989

By Robert Colescott

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Pancho Villa ,1971

By Robert Colescott

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Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future: The Original

By Robert Colescott

COTTON ,1989

By Robert Colescott

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The Explorer ,1996

By Robert Colescott

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Cactus Jack ,1977

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Robert Colescott
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Memories of a Land-Locked Sailor, 1990 - Robert Colescott

Robert Colescott (American, 1925-2009) Memories of a Land-Locked Sailor, 1990 ,1990

By Robert Colescott

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Untitled ,1989

By Robert Colescott

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Paintings I Promised Never to Paint: Man Crying - Robert Colescott

Paintings I Promised Never to Paint: Man Crying ,1965

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Untitled ,1989

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Current Exhibitions

Past-Forward: Modern And Contemporary Art from HoMA鈥檚 Collection

HoMA, Honolulu Museum of Art

Honolulu | Hawaii | USA

09 Nov, 2024 - 19 Jul, 2026

Past Exhibitions

Bienvenue: African American Artists in France

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

10 May, 2025 - 25 Jul, 2025

Powerhouses

Bill Hodges Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

06 Feb, 2025 - 18 Apr, 2025

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Articles

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Surveys African American Artists in France Across Two Centuries

ArtDaily 15 May, 2025

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Bienvenue: African American Artists in France, a historical survey of seventeen Black American artists who lived and worked in France from the late nineteenth century through the present.

Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: The Best Shows to See in May 2025

Wallpaper 25 Apr, 2025

Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from Marisa J. Futernick鈥檚聽inherited and imagined memories at the Skirball Cultural Center to Demetri Martin's comedic acrylic paintings at Laconic Gallery.

Artist Umar Rashid on Curating a Robert Colescott Show for Blum LA

ARTnews 08 Apr, 2025

Robert Colescott鈥檚 most famous painting might just be George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975), which was acquired by the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at a Sotheby鈥檚 auction in 2021 for $15.3 million.

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鈥� ..Colescott's art, moreover was, and is, concerned with political issues as well as race and sex... 鈥�
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G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, New York

鈥� ..Colescott鈥檚 late work, executed while living and teaching in Arizona, shows an artist still focused on depicting historical painting through his own lens, yet with a looser and more gestural compositional... 鈥�
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Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

鈥� ..Coming of age during the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s, Colescott ultimately rejected non-objectivity, choosing to adopt a highly expressive figurative style... 鈥�
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Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg)

鈥� ..Colescott moved on to treat complex human narratives, with subjects ranging from urban violence to the societal challenges posed by racial mixing... 鈥�
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Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg)

鈥� ..These issues鈥攚hich would hold a place of prominence in Colescott鈥檚 work for decades鈥攙iewed now forty years later, have proven to be tremendously topical and relevant in this moment of national reckoning... 鈥�
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Blum & Poe, Los Angeles