Rex Goreleigh Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Rex Goreleigh Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 19, 2022
Rex Goreleigh, 1902-1986, The Tobacco Series
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Rex Goreleigh 1902-1986 The Tobacco Series 1973 lot of 8 paintings, oil on board 17-1/4 x 11 inches (image) all built into artist made frames which are, 29-3/4 x 23-3/4 inches, on plywood unsigned Princeton NJ (written on verso)
Black Art Auction
Aug. 16, 2022
George J. Stengel (1872 - 1937) American
Est: $2,500 - $4,500
George J. Stengel (1872 - 1937) " Seascape " , Oil on canvas , Signed , measures , 20.5" x 16 1/4 " , w/ framed 25" x 21.5"
Cutler Bay Auctions
Jun. 14, 2022
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986) American
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986) , Watercolor / Paper on Board , Signed Lower Right , measures 20 x 22 inches
Cutler Bay Auctions
Apr. 30, 2022
Rex Goreleigh, Princeton, NJ (1902-1986)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Rex Goreleigh, Princeton, NJ (1902-1986), Watercolor painting on paper of a black woman in a wide brimmed hat "Ready for Church", probably used as a preparatory study painting for an oil on canvas painting he did later, signed lower right "Goreleigh", 18" x 15", matted and framed. Provenance: Consignor's brother obtained from the artist in NJ when he worked with him C1973-75, see lot 255A from our November 13th, 2021 sale which he acquired at the same time.
The Cobbs
Apr. 20, 2022
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986)
Est: $1,000 - $2,500
Rex Goreleigh, American (1902 - 1986) "The Tobacco Series, 1973" Eight Oil on Wood Paintings. Unsigned. A few are inscribed Princeton, N.J. en verso. Frames measure 29-5/8" x 23-5/8". Condition: Good condition. Estimate: $1000.00 - $2500.00 Domestic Shipping: Third party
Kodner Galleries
Apr. 20, 2022
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986)
Est: $500 - $1,500
Rex Goreleigh, American (1902 - 1986) "The Tobacco Series, 1973" Four Color Screen Prints. Three are signed and numbered. Frames measure 24-1/4" x 18-1/4". Condition: Toning on all artworks, one has a crack glass, toning and foxing, needs cleaning otherwise good condition. Estimate: $500.00 - $1500.00 Domestic Shipping: Third party
Kodner Galleries
Apr. 14, 2022
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986) American
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902 - 1986) , Watercolor / Paper on Board , Signed Lower Right , measures 20 x 22 inches
Cutler Bay Auctions
Mar. 31, 2022
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Woman and Children at Stove).
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Woman and Children at Stove). Oil on linen canvas, 1979. 762x1016 mm; 40x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: private collection, New Jersey. This poignant scene is from Rex Goreleigh's important Migrant Series, a series of paintings depicting the rural life in New Jersey of migrant workers, incorporating a political and social awareness with a painterly approach. Born in Penllyn, Pennsylvania, Goreleigh's family moved to Washington, DC, where he graduated from Dunbar High School. Throughout the 1930s, he was associated with many WPA programs and taught art across the United States. Goreleigh first worked with WPA muralist Ben Shahn in 1934. After a two-year hiatus studying art in Paris, he returned to New York and taught art at the Utopia House under the Federal Arts Project, and later at the Harlem branch of the YMCA. Goreleigh and Norman Lewis also taught under the Federal Art Project in Greensboro, NC, where he remained and married a local librarian. The couple moved to Chicago in 1940, and he worked as an art coordinator for the Schreiner-Bennet advertising agency. From 1944 to 1947, Goreleigh directed the Chicago South Side Community Art Center, succeeding its first director Margaret Burroughs. In the late 1940s, Goreleigh moved to Princeton, NJ and directed the Princeton Group Arts from 1947 to 1953, a community arts center that provided lessons and organized concerts, lectures, and exhibits. In 1955, he opened his "Studio-on-the-Canal" on Canal Road where he worked for 23 years - and where his friend the artist Hughie Lee-Smith also taught painting classes. Goreleigh's paintings and prints are included in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, and the Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African-American Art, San Antonio.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 13, 2021
Rex Goreleigh, Princeton, NJ (1902-1986)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Rex Goreleigh, Princeton, NJ (1902-1986), Oil on canvas landscape of the NJ countryside with flowering trees erc, signed lower right "Goreleigh, 73", 23 1/2" x 41 1/2", small 1.2 round wooden frame, two small areas of paint loss. Provenance: Acquired by the consignor's brother in Princeton, NJ from the artist around 1973-75.
The Cobbs
Jul. 17, 2021
Rex Goreleigh, 1902-1986, The Mourners
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Rex Goreleigh 1902-1986 The Mourners ***This work is currently on loan for Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights. This important exhibition has been curated by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins from the University of Memphis and will run at the Dixon only from October 17, 2021 through January 2, 2022. If you choose to purchase this work, title will transfer to you immediately and the artwork will be delivered to you at the conclusion of the exhibit. Please contact us for more information. 1940 oil on canvas 27 x 32 inches signed
Black Art Auction
Apr. 22, 2021
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Alain Locke.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Alain Locke. Oil on linen canvas, 1974. 584x457 mm; 23x18 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: Professor John Ralph Willis, Princeton, NJ; Between the Covers Rare Books, Gloucester City, NJ; the Ness Oleson Trust. The late Frannie Ness and Gary Oleson were the proprietors of Waiting for Godot Books of Hadley, MA, which specialized in rare American and English books, including African American literature. Princeton Professor John Ralph Willis (1938 - 2007) commissioned this portrait of Alain Locke from his close friend Rex Goreleigh. Willis was an honorary secretary of Princeton University's chapter of the Alain Locke Society. Goreleigh painted it after a 1943-44 portrait of Locke by Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888 - 1964) which is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and was a gift from the Harmon Foundation. Goreleigh's painting is recorded in the Catalog of American Portraits, a research archive of the National Portrait Gallery.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2020
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Cranberries in Winter.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Cranberries in Winter. Watercolor and gouache on wove paper, 1981. 419x559 mm; 16 1/2x22 inches. Signed and dated in gouache, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New Jersey; thence by descent, private collection, California. This watercolors is part of a series that Goreleigh painted for each season of the cranberry harvest.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2020
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Bridge over Princeton Canal)..
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Bridge over Princeton Canal).. Watercolor on wove paper, 1977. 432x559 mm; 17x22 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New Jersey; thence by descent, private collection, California. Rex Goreleigh has long been known for his scenes of rural life, and especially of workers in the fields. Goreleigh moved to Princeton, NJ in the late 1940s, and directed the Princeton Group Arts from 1947 to 1953, a community arts center that provided lesson and organized concerts, lectures, and exhibits. In 1955, he opened his "Studio-on-the-Canal" on Canal Road where he worked for 23 years - and where his friend the artist Hughie Lee-Smith also taught painting classes. Goreleigh's paintings and prints are included in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, and the Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African-American Art, San Antonio.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 24, 2019
Rex Goreleigh The Mourners
Est: $12,000 - $14,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) The Mourners, c. 1940 oil on canvas signed and indistinctly dated 27 x 32 inches framed
Treadway Gallery
Jan. 01, 2018
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Red "Water Shed" landscape signed lower right: Goreleigh titled on verso: Water She...
Est: $400 - $800
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Red "Water Shed" landscape signed lower right: Goreleigh titled on verso: Water Shed sight size 22 1/4" x 16 1/2"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Jan. 01, 2018
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Loading the Truck at the Cranberry Bog signed lower right: Goreleigh 81 sight size...
Est: $400 - $800
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Loading the Truck at the Cranberry Bog signed lower right: Goreleigh 81 sight size 16 1/2" x 22 1/4"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Two Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) (1) Lithograph Old Grad - Princeton pencil signed, dated, and numbered lower right: Goreleigh...
Est: $400 - $800
Two Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) (1) Lithograph Old Grad - Princeton pencil signed, dated, and numbered lower right: Goreleigh 72 #16/35 sight size 13 3/4" x 5 1/4" (2) serigraph "Nude" signed, dated, and numbered in pencil lower right: Goreleigh 72 #20/25 sight size 12" x 8"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Pair Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) Color screenprints on imitation Japan paper (1)"Planting"
Est: $500 - $1,000
Pair Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) Color screenprints on imitation Japan paper (1)"Planting" signed and numbered lower right: Goreleigh 36/50 sight size 17 3/4" x 11 1/2" (2) untitled Farming signed and numbered in blue ink lower right: Goreleigh #16/60 sight sizes 17 3/4" x 11 1/2"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Pair Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) Color screenprints on imitation Japan paper Planting / Farming untitled signed lower righ...
Est: $500 - $1,000
Pair Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) Color screenprints on imitation Japan paper Planting / Farming untitled signed lower right: Goreleigh Numbered 21/50 and 36/39 sight sizes 17 3/4" x 11 1/2"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Apple Cider at the Apple Farm signed lower right: Goreleigh (water stained) 22" x...
Est: $500 - $1,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Apple Cider at the Apple Farm signed lower right: Goreleigh (water stained) 22" x 16 1/4"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Red "Water Shed" landscape signed lower right: Goreleigh titled on verso: Water Shed...
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Red "Water Shed" landscape signed lower right: Goreleigh titled on verso: Water Shed sight size 22 1/4" x 16 1/2"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Loading the Truck at the Cranberry Bog signed lower right: Goreleigh 81 sight size...
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Loading the Truck at the Cranberry Bog signed lower right: Goreleigh 81 sight size 16 1/2" x 22 1/4"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Rear Wall Migrant Series - "Picking Apples"
Est: $500 - $1,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Rear Wall Migrant Series - "Picking Apples" signed lower right in painting: Rex Goreleigh marked on matting: Rear Wall Migrant Series 8" x 9"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Oct. 21, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Migrant Series - "Mural Design" side wall, smilar to "The Social Hour" signed lower ri...
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Migrant Series - "Mural Design" side wall, smilar to "The Social Hour" signed lower right in painting: Rex Goreleigh 74 titled, signed, and dated on matting lower right: Rex Goreleigh 1973 having original old label on verso 8" x 18 1/2"
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
May. 20, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) oil on canvas bust of a general signed lower right Goreleigh 70'. 36" x 30" Provenance: Collection of Anne..
Est: $500 - $1,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) oil on canvas bust of a general signed lower right Goreleigh 70''. 36" x 30" Provenance: Collection of Anne Jones Willis and the late John Ralph Willis, New Jersey
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
May. 20, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Still Life Cooking Mess signed lower right Goreleigh 74', written on verso "Still Life Migrant...
Est: $500 - $1,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) watercolor Still Life Cooking Mess signed lower right Goreleigh 74'', written on verso "Still Life Migrant Series Alainlocke Society Princeton" sight size 19 1/2" x 23 1/2" Provenance: Collection of Anne Jones Willis and the late John Ralph Willis, New Jersey
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
May. 20, 2017
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) oil on canvas "The Social Hour, 1971" signed lower right Goreleigh 71. 42 1/2" x 60 1/2" Provenance: Colle...
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Rex Goreleigh (1902-1986) oil on canvas "The Social Hour, 1971" signed lower right Goreleigh 71. 42 1/2" x 60 1/2" Provenance: Collection of Anne Jones Willis and the late John Ralph Willis, New Jersey
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Apr. 07, 2016
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) The Gourmet Chef.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) The Gourmet Chef. Watercolor and pencil on wove paper, 1977. 584x387 mm: 23x15 1/4 inches. Titled and dated in pencil, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; the collection of Professor John R. Willis and Anne Willis, Highstown, NJ. This watercolor is an informal portrait of Profesor Willis.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 07, 2016
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Quaker Bridge.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Quaker Bridge. Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1976. 451x552 mm; 17 3/4x21 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right recto. Inscribed "Point of Rock - Conn." in pencil, verso. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; the collection of Professor John R. Willis and Anne Willis, Highstown, NJ.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 07, 2016
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (North Carolina Landscape).
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (North Carolina Landscape). Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1939. 508x356 mm; 20x14 inches. Signed and dated twice, "Goreleigh '39" and "Goreleigh '40" in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist in Greensboro, North Carolina; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, North Carolina. This landscape by Rex Goreleigh is his first artwork from the WPA-era to come to auction. In 1938, Rex Goreleigh and Norman Lewis were both sent to Greensboro, North Carolina to teach art at North Carolina A&T State University and Bennett College, and to set up a community art center. The WPA sent out artists to schools without art teachers, and Goreleigh and Lewis had volunteered. In the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, there is a 1938 oil painting from this North Carolina period entitled Dean's Alley.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 07, 2016
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Helsinki-Finland (Market Place).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Helsinki-Finland (Market Place). Oil on linen canvas, 1935. 533x457 mm; 21x18 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; the collection of Professor John R. Willis and Anne Willis, Highstown, NJ. Exhibited and illustrated: Fragments of American Life, An Exhibition of Paintings, the Art Museum, Princeton University, January 25 - March 28, 1976, p. 34. .Rex Goreleigh had a solo exhibition at the Strindberg Gallery in Finland in 1935. This is the earliest example of a Rex Goreleigh artwork that we have located.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 15, 2015
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) In the Beginning.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) In the Beginning. Color screenprint, 1978. 508x406 mm: 20x16 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 44/60 in pencil, and then re-traced and titled in red pencil, lower margin. Exhibited: Rex Goreleigh: Revisited in Princeton, Princeton Historical Society, Princeton, NJ, September 2, 2009 - January 18, 2010. This large screenprint is Rex Goreleigh's interpretation of the same-titled painting which was his thesis project at Rutgers University in 1978. Goreleigh revisits a subject fro, his Migrant Series of paintings and prints from the 1960s and 70s - the fruit and tobacco pickers working in the fields of New Jersey. According to a 1983 New Jersey Monthly interview with the artist, this imagery goes back to the days of slavery - hence the title In the Beginning - when women nursing babies had to keep working in the fields. Another impression is in the collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 05, 2015
Rex Gorleigh, (American, 1902-1986), Standing Nude, c. 1945, watercolor, 15" X 9"
Est: $800 - $1,200
Rex Gorleigh (American, 1902-1986) Standing Nude, c. 1945 watercolor signed 15" X 9"
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Jul. 31, 2015
GENRE SCENE BY REX GORELEIGHT (AMERICAN, 1902-1986).
Est: $500 - $700
GENRE SCENE BY REX GORELEIGHT (AMERICAN, 1902-1986). Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. ?Nude African woman standing in an interior setting. 14.75"h. 9"w., matted and framed, 23"h. 17"w.
Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers
Apr. 02, 2015
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Wash Day.
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Wash Day. Oil on linen canvas, 1979. 711x560 mm; 28x22 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist (1983); private collection, Newark, NJ. Exhibited: The Art of Rex Goreleigh, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ, November 19, 1980 - March 4, 1981; Rex Goreleigh: Revisited in Princeton, Princeton Historical Society, Princeton, NJ, September 2, 2009 - January 18, 2010. This poignant scene from the artist's Migrant Series is only the second oil painting by Rex Goreleigh to come to auction. Goreleigh is best known for these scenes depicting the rural life in New Jersey of migrant workers, incorporating a political and social awareness with his painterly approach. Born in Pennsylvania, Rex Goreleigh's family moved to Washington, DC, where he graduated from Dunbar High School. Throughout the 1930s, he was associated with many WPA programs and taught art across the country. Goreleigh first worked with WPA muralist Ben Shahn in 1934. After a two-year hiatus studying art in Paris, he returned to New York and taught art at the Utopia House under the Federal Arts Project, and later at the Harlem branch of the YMCA. Goreleigh and Norman Lewis also taught under the Federal Art Project in Greensboro, NC, where he remained and married a local librarian. The couple moved to Chicago in 1940, and he worked as an art coordinator for the Schreiner-Bennet advertising agency. From 1944 to 1947, Goreleigh directed the Chicago South Side Community Art Center, succeeding its first director Margaret Burroughs. Goreleigh eventually moved to Princeton, NJ in the late 1940s, and directed the Princeton Group Arts from 1947 to 1953, a community arts center that provided lesson and organized concerts, lectures, and exhibits. In 1955, he opened his "Studio-on-the-Canal" on Canal Road where he worked for 23 years - and where his friend the artist Hughie Lee-Smith also taught painting classes. Goreleigh's paintings and prints are included in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, and the Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African-American Art, San Antonio.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 23, 2010
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Bridge over Princeton Canal).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Bridge over Princeton Canal). Watercolor on textured wove paper, 1977. 480x610 mm; 19x24 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower right. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private New York collection. Rex Goreleigh's first watercolor to come to auction is a view of the rural landscape around Princeton where the artist moved in the late 1940s. From 1947 to 1953, Goreleigh directed the Princeton Group Arts, a community arts center that provided lessons and organized concerts, lectures and exhibits. In 1955, he opened his Studio-on-the-Canal art school, which served the community well into the 1970s.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 17, 2009
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Planting.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Planting. Color screenprint on imitation Japan paper, 1973. 420x255 mm; 16 1/2x10 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 25/50 in ball point pen and blue ink, lower right. From The Cranberry Pickers series. A very good impression with bright colors.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2008
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Planting).
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
REX GORELEIGH (1902 - 1986) Untitled (Planting). Color screenprint on imitation Japan paper, circa 1973. 420x220 mm; 16 1/2x8 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 39/39 in ball point pen and blue ink, lower right. Numbered 39/39 in pencil, lower right. A very good impression with bright colors. Rex Goreleigh, who has long been known for his scenes of rural life, made this series of screenprints based on his painting from the 1940s. Goreleigh studied in New York and Chicago. As a young artist he travelled Europe, studying at the Andre L'Hoté Academie in Paris. He went on to teach at several schools in Chicago and North Carolina. Goreleigh had early successes showing at the Anderson Galleries, the Harlem Foundation, and the American Negro Exhibition in New York in the 1930s. His work was also included in the important group exhibition, Contemporary Negro Art, at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1939, the first major museum show of living African-American artists. Rex Goreleigh moved to Princeton in 1947 where he became the director of the newly developed Princeton Group Arts Center. In 1955, he opened his "Studio-on-the-Canal" on Canal Road where he worked for 23 years. In 1973, he exhibited at the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, and at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His paintings and prints today are included in the New Jersey State Museum, the Paul R. Jones Collection and the Harriet and Harmon Kelly Collection of African-American Art.
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