Dana C. Chandler Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Dana C. Chandler Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 13, 2025
Dana C. Chandler, b. 1941, Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Dana C. Chandler b. 1941 Arm Yourself or Harm Yourself 1970 screen print 10 x 8 inches (sheet) signed, titled, dated, and inscribed in the plate, "Pan African Artist" ; also inscribed, "Dirty Do-Rag" Provenance: private collection, Ohio This format of small images signed only in the plate is typical for Chandler. Similarly to many of the Africobra artists, his work serves more of a propaganda-type agenda than a controlled edition fine print one.
Black Art Auction
Sep. 03, 2025
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., Black People Break Free of the Sucking, Mother-F-ing White Egg (from The Fifteen Days of May portfolio)
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Black People Break Free of the Sucking, Mother-F-ing White Egg (from The Fifteen Days of May portfolio) 1968 lithograph image: 26 h x 18 w in (66 x 46 cm) sight: 26.75 h x 19 w in (68 x 48 cm) Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower edge 'Black People Break Free of the Sucking, M- Fing White Egg 31/40 5-10-68 D. Chandler Jr.'. This work is number 31 from the edition of 40. Provenance: Lorne Bair, Winchester, VA | Acquired from the previous by the present owner This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Mar. 26, 2025
Dana C Chandler Jr Large Tissue Collage on Canvas
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Dana C Chandler Jr. also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. Tissue Collage with Oil Wash on Canvas. Signed and dated lower right Dana C Chandler, Jr. '83 and titled lower left. Title: Autumn. Measures 80 x 36.5 inches. Excellent condition. Unframed, has been stored rolled and out of the light. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. Photos may also act as a condition report. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Dec. 14, 2024
Dana Chandler, Jr., b. 1941, Together Brothers
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Dana Chandler, Jr. b. 1941 Together Brothers 1970 screen print on red wove paper 11 x 17 inches (sheet) signed, titled, dated, and inscribed in the plate, "Pan African Artist, Boston" Provenance: private collection, Chicago, IL This format of small images signed only in the plate is typical for Chandler. Similarly to many of the Africobra artists, his work serves more of a propaganda-type agenda than a controlled edition fine print one.
Black Art Auction
Nov. 20, 2024
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Black Power Artist)
Est: $200 - $400
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. This is an original tissue collage on canvas, signed on verso. Measures 21.75 x 15 inches sheet size. EX/EX+ condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2024
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Black Power Artist)
Est: $200 - $400
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. This is an original tissue collage on canvas. [Fragment #14, 1983]. Measures 17 x 10 inches sheet size. EX/EX+ condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2024
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Black Power Artist)
Est: $200 - $400
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. This is an original tissue collage on canvas. [Red Moon and Sea Mountains, 1983]. Measures 20 x 11.75 inches sheet size. EX/EX+ condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2024
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Black Power Artist)
Est: $200 - $400
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. This is an original tissue collage on canvas. [Sea Mountain and Comet, 1983]. Measures 20 x 10 inches sheet size. EX/EX+ condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2024
Dana C. Chandler, Jr. (Black Power Artist)
Est: $200 - $400
Dana C. Chandler, Jr., also known as Akin Duro, is a Black Power artist, activist and Professor Emeritus at Simmons College. This is an original tissue collage on canvas. [Triangle, 1981]. Measures 20.25 x 23.25 inches sheet size. VG-EX/EX condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Mar. 12, 2022
Dana Chandler, Jr., b. 1941, Still Life
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Dana Chandler, Jr. b. 1941 Still Life 1981 oil on masonite 24 x 24 inches signed and dated
Black Art Auction
Dec. 04, 2021
Dana Chandler, Jr., b. 1941, Lovers
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Dana Chandler, Jr. b. 1941 Lovers 1970 screen print on orange wove paper 17 x 11 inches signed in the image, with "Pan-African Artist, Boston" This format of small images signed only in the plate is typical for Chandler. Similarly to many of the Africobra artists, his work serves more of a propaganda-type agenda than a controlled edition fine print one.
Black Art Auction
Dec. 04, 2021
Dana Chandler, Jr., b. 1941, The Argument/Making Up, Black on Black Series
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Dana Chandler, Jr. b. 1941 The Argument/Making Up, Black on Black Series 1970 screen print on green wove paper 11 x 17 inches (sheet) signed, titled, dated and inscribed in the plate, "Pan African Artist" This format of small images signed only in the plate is typical for Chandler. Similarly to many of the Africobra artists, his work serves more of a propaganda-type agenda than a controlled edition fine print one.
Black Art Auction
Dec. 04, 2021
Dana Chandler, Jr., b. 1941, Together Brothers
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Dana Chandler, Jr. b. 1941 Together Brothers 1970 screen print on red wove paper 11 x 17 inches (sheet) signed, titled, dated, and inscribed in the plate, "Pan African Artist, Boston" This format of small images signed only in the plate is typical for Chandler. Similarly to many of the Africobra artists, his work serves more of a propaganda-type agenda than a controlled edition fine print one.
Black Art Auction
Oct. 07, 2021
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Genocide Series No. 2, Lil Junkies Waiting on "Bro" Pusher.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Genocide Series No. 2, Lil Junkies Waiting on "Bro" Pusher. Screenprint on red wove paper, 1970. 406x279 mm; 16x11 inches, wide margins. A very scarce impression from the artist's 1970-71 Genocide Series.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 16, 2012
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Free Huey Newton...Now!
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Free Huey Newton...Now! Pen and ink on wove paper, mounted to cardstock, 1968. 289x333 mm; 11<3/8>x13<1/8> inches. Signed in ink, center right. Provenance: private collection. This poster maquette advertises the October 1968 show of "Recent Paintings by Controversial Artist Dana C. Chandler Jr.," and was designed by the artist himself.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 09, 2011
(on 4) DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (American/Boston, b.
Est: $300 - $500
(on 4) DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (American/Boston, b. 1941) colorful abstracts (1) sgn. & dated on reverse, D. Chandler 76, o/p, 15.5" by 14.25 in.; (2) sgn. & dated l.m. D. Chandler 74, o/b, 10 by 6 in.; (1) sgn. & dated l.l. D. Chandler 74, o/b, 8 by 6.5 in.
CRN Auctions
Oct. 07, 2010
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Untitled (Abstract Composition).
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Untitled (Abstract Composition). Oil on cardstock, circa 1970-75. 622x216 mm; 24x8 1/2 inches. Provenance: private collection, Boston; private collection. This is only the second painting by this influential and multi-faceted Boston painter and muralist to come to auction. Unlike his 1960s political works, this painting exemplifies Dana Chandler's geometric abstraction from the 1970s. Chandler received a B.S. in art education from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has shown in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions since 1968, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Newark Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also a professor of painting and African art history at Simmons College and at Northeastern University, both in Boston. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Arts, Boston. St. James pp. 104-105.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2010
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Black People Break Free of the Sucking, M- F ing White Egg.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
DANA C. CHANDLER, JR. (1941 - ) Black People Break Free of the Sucking, M- F ing White Egg. Lithograph, 1968. 645x457 mm; 25 3/8x18 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated "5.10.68" and numbered 31/40 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this scarce print.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 26, 2010
Dana Chandler Jr., "Forest Life", Tissue College on Canvas
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Important African-American work by Dana Chandler Jr. (African American), "Forest Life", tissue collage on canvas, 1981, 36" x 25", framed.
Kaminski Auctions