Black-and-White Paintings for a Kids' Room

Paintings with almost no color: grays, browns and blacks that sit quietly on any wall and beside any fabric. A child's room can take color and energy the rest of the house cannot. Here are 34 paintings for a kids' room, each with almost no color, with works by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and Amedeo Modigliani.

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Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 25 × 40 in landscape print (63 × 102 cm), centered 69¾ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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34 black-and-white paintings

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

The Shepherd's Song, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891, oil on canvas

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The Shepherd's Song, 1891 The Met

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1878, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), 1878 The Met

Six jockeys wearing colorful silks sit astride brown and black horses on a grassy field in this horizontal painting. Two more riders wearing top hats sit a bit farther back from the group, and two horses run on a grass track behind that.

Edgar Degas The Races, 1871-1872 National Gallery of Art

The Place du Havre, Paris, Camille Pissarro, 1893, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

Two pale-skinned little girls sit back-to-back on a sandy beach, almost filling the width of this vertical painting. The girls wear matching pale, ice-blue pinafores over short sleeve, ocean-blue dresses.

Mary Cassatt Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 National Gallery of Art

Saddle Horse in Farm Yard, Winslow Homer, ca. 1870–75, oil on wood

Winslow Homer Saddle Horse in Farm Yard, ca. 1870–75 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 woman with peach-colored skin and dark hair sits facing us and holding a baby in this stylized, vertical portrait painting.

Amedeo Modigliani Roma Woman with Baby, 1919 National Gallery of Art

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

To our left, a young woman sits facing us on a low stone wall at the base of the vertical, black bars of an iron fence and a young girl stands facing away from us to our right in this horizontal painting. Both have pale skin.

Édouard Manet The Railway, 1873 National Gallery of Art

Environs of Fontainebleau: Woodland and Cattle, Rosa Bonheur, 1864, oil on canvas

Rosa Bonheur Environs of Fontainebleau: Woodland and Cattle, 1864 The Met

Boys in a Dory, Winslow Homer, 1873, watercolor washes and gouache over graphite underdrawing on medium rough textured white wove paper

Winslow Homer Boys in a Dory, 1873 The Met

Approaching Storm, Eugène Boudin, 1864, oil on cradled panel

Eugène Boudin Approaching Storm, 1864 Art Institute of Chicago

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left.

Berthe Morisot Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80 Art Institute of Chicago

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

Paul Cézanne The Card Players, 1890–92 The Met

We look slightly down onto a baby tucked into an oval-shaped cradle with a woman sitting on the far side looking down at the child in this vertical painting. Both the woman and baby have light skin.

Claude Monet The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean, 1867 National Gallery of Art

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

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

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

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

Child with Brown Hair, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1887/1888, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Child with Brown Hair, 1887/1888 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

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

The Dock of Deauville, Eugène Boudin, 1891, oil on wood panel

Eugène Boudin The Dock of Deauville, 1891 Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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

A Woman Gathering Faggots at Ville-d'Avray, Camille Corot, ca. 1871–74, oil on canvas

Camille Corot A Woman Gathering Faggots at Ville-d'Avray, ca. 1871–74 The Met

Four women and two children, all with pale skin, carry baskets as they walk along a beach under a brilliant blue sky in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible dabs and blended strokes.

John Singer Sargent En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish), 1878 National Gallery of Art

A young girl with dark hair and pale skin, wearing a long white dress, kneels on the ground in a hilly, tree-lined landscape in this vertical portrait painting.

Joshua Reynolds Lady Caroline Howard, 1778 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows two women in a room. At the center of the painting, a young woman is seated at a desk, her hand resting on the back of the chair, opening a small drawer.

Edmund Charles Tarbell Mother and Mary, 1922 National Gallery of Art

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1890–95, oil on canvas

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature), ca. 1890–95 The Met

A young girl with pale skin, rosy cheeks, and blond hair stands facing us in front of a landscape with forests and mountains in this vertical portrait painting. The girl looks at us with wide, gray eyes under delicately arched eyebrows.

Francisco de Goya María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga, later Condesa de Chinchón, 1783 National Gallery of Art

We look onto two black-headed ducks twisting and flailing midair against a slate-gray landscape in this horizontal painting. The silvery white body of the bird to our left faces us as its neck twists to our left, its black wings extended.

Winslow Homer Right and Left, 1909 National Gallery of Art

Two animals with golden yellow, brown, and black fur peer out from behind dense jungle foliage in this stylized, vertical painting.

Henri Rousseau The Equatorial Jungle, 1909 National Gallery of Art

Idle Hours, Julian Alden Weir, 1888, oil on canvas

Julian Alden Weir Idle Hours, 1888 The Met

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