Black-and-White Paintings for an Apartment or Dorm

Paintings with almost no color: grays, browns and blacks that sit quietly on any wall and beside any fabric. For a rental or a dorm, a painting should print at home, frame cheaply and survive a move. Here are 60 paintings for an apartment or dorm, each with almost no color, with works by Paul Cézanne, Mary Cassatt and Piet Mondrian.

All 584 paintings for an apartment or dorm

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, Piet Mondrian 24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 51¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the desk. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Piet Mondrian Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887–88 Art Institute of Chicago

Outskirts of Paris, Henri Rousseau, c. 1897–1905, oil on fabric

Henri Rousseau Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897–1905 Cleveland Museum of Art

A Village Street: Dardagny, Camille Corot, 1852, 1857, or 1863, oil on canvas

Camille Corot A Village Street: Dardagny, 1852, 1857, or 1863 The Met

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, Piet Mondrian, 1927, oil on canvas

Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927 Cleveland Museum of Art

We look across a river at a bridge that spans the center of this horizontal landscape, which is painted entirely with broad, visible brushstrokes in pastel colors.

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset, 1904 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and horse-drawn carriages in this horizontal painting.

Camille Pissarro Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight, 1897 National Gallery of Art

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, 1903 National Gallery of Art

From under an elevated train track, we look at a cluster of people hammering and working on the far side of a wooden fence, all against a silvery-blue building that fills most of the background in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows Blue Morning, 1909 National Gallery of Art

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro, 1897, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897 The Met

Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain.

Edvard Munch The Girl by the Window, 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

Shown from the knees up, a young woman wearing a white gown and bonnet sits in front of a balcony railing on a sunny day, holding a small dog on her lap in this vertical portrait painting.

Mary Cassatt Young Girl at a Window, c. 1883-1884 National Gallery of Art

Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, Alfred Sisley, 1891, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, 1891 The Met

Abstract line composition of black lines at right angles forming quadrants including a gray square at upper left and a gray rectangle and red rectangle at lower right, against a white background.

Piet Mondrian Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, 1935 Art Institute of Chicago

Village in Brittany, Charles-François Daubigny, 1844, oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Charles-François Daubigny Village in Brittany, 1844 Art Institute of Chicago

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), Gustav Klimt, 1912–13, oil on canvas

Gustav Klimt Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), 1912–13 The Met

We look slightly down onto a crush of pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and streetcars enclosed by a row of densely spaced buildings and skyscrapers opposite us in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows New York, 1911 National Gallery of Art

Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, Vincent van Gogh, 1887, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, 1887 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1886, oil on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, 1886 Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Peasant, Paul Cézanne, ca. 1892–96, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne Seated Peasant, ca. 1892–96 The Met

The painting is of an older woman from the waist up, her body slightly turned to the left and her head facing us. She has pale skin with soft lines, rosy cheeks, deep-set eyes, thin eyebrows, and thin red lips in a neutral expression.

Robert Henri Elizabeth Virginia Laning Bradner Smith (Mrs. George Cotton Smith), 1908 National Gallery of Art

A plucked chicken, a few stray feathers remaining, hangs upside-down by one foot, illuminated. Behind it the metal hinges and wood panels of a door are visible.

William Michael Harnett For Sunday's Dinner, 1888 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, Jacometto, ca. 1485–95, oil on wood; (verso: oil and gold on wood)

Jacometto Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, ca. 1485–95 The Met

Portrait of man, black coat, white collar, hand in book.

Ammi Phillips Cornelius Allerton, 1821–22 Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1911, oil on canvas

Vilhelm Hammershøi Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul, 1911 The Met

The Card Players, Paul Cézanne, 1890–92, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne The Card Players, 1890–92 The Met

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), Georges Seurat, 1887–88, oil on canvas

Georges Seurat Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), 1887–88 The Met

Stag at Sharkey's, George Bellows, 1909, oil on canvas

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 Cleveland Museum of Art

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

Mary Cassatt The Child's Bath, 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of an Old Man, El Greco, ca. 1595–1600, oil on canvas

El Greco Portrait of an Old Man, ca. 1595–1600 The Met

Édouard Manet Portrait of a Lady, c. 1879 National Gallery of Art

Gulian Verplanck, John Singleton Copley, 1771, oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley Gulian Verplanck, 1771 The Met

Nicolas Rubens, the Artist's Son, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635, oil on panel

Peter Paul Rubens Nicolas Rubens, the Artist's Son, c. 1635 Art Institute of Chicago

Shown from the lap up, a cleanshaven man with black hair and dark clothes faces us as he sits with his hands resting together in his lap in this stylized, vertical portrait painting.

Amedeo Modigliani Chaim Soutine, 1918 National Gallery of Art

The Writing Master, Thomas Eakins, 1882, oil on canvas

Thomas Eakins The Writing Master, 1882 The Met

Edward Guthrie Kennedy, William Merritt Chase, ca. 1895, oil on canvas

William Merritt Chase Edward Guthrie Kennedy, ca. 1895 The Met

Mrs. Winfield Scott, Asher Brown Durand, 1831, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Mrs. Winfield Scott, 1831 The Met

Portrait of a Seated Man, Gerard ter Borch, late 1650s or early 1660s, oil on wood

Gerard ter Borch Portrait of a Seated Man, late 1650s or early 1660s The Met

Shown from the thighs up, a boy wearing a crimson-red waistcoat stands against swags of fabric painted with visible strokes in white, sky blue, harvest yellow, and sage green in this loosely painted, vertical portrait.

Paul Cézanne Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-1890 National Gallery of Art

We look across a body of water at two houses, some smaller outbuildings, and a houseboat along the far bank in this abstracted, horizontal landscape painting.

Paul Cézanne At the Water's Edge, c. 1890 National Gallery of Art

David Sears, Jr., Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1815, oil on canvas

Gilbert Stuart David Sears, Jr., ca. 1815 The Met

Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff, Frans Hals, 1625, oil on canvas

Frans Hals Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff, 1625 The Met

Shown from the knees up, a woman wearing a black dress is painted with areas of mottled color in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, her shoulders sloping steeply down from her elongated neck.

Amedeo Modigliani Café Singer, 1917 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the lap up, an older woman with pale, slightly sagging skin and frosty gray hair sits facing us in this loosely painted vertical portrait.

Mary Cassatt Portrait of a Lady, c. 1887 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of a Man, Gustave Caillebotte, 1880, oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte Portrait of a Man, 1880 Cleveland Museum of Art

Shown from the lap up, a man wearing an ash-brown suit and top hat sits turned mostly away from us, next to a round table, facing a group of at least three women farther back in the room in this vertical painting.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Maxime Dethomas, 1896 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a tightly corseted dress looks off to our left in this vertical pastel drawing. The portrait is loosely sketched with blended areas, giving it a soft look.

Édouard Manet Madame Michel-Lévy, 1882 National Gallery of Art

On a Balcony, Mary Cassatt, 1878–79, oil on canvas

Mary Cassatt On a Balcony, 1878–79 Art Institute of Chicago

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