As spooky season approaches, I thought it was about time to add an official public domain vintage Halloween art collection to the Public Domain Print Shop!
Below you’ll find a curated collection of printable Halloween art featuring everything from happy pumpkins and moody portraits, to spooky sketches and eerie landscapes. (Plus a few more macabre paintings and even some early spirit photography!)
Whether you’re looking for spooky vintage art, or just want to add a touch of subtle, elegant Halloween decor to your home this season, this curated collection of free Halloween art downloads has something for everyone. Especially if you’re Halloween decorating on a budget.
If you’re looking for more cozy fall wall art, head over to my autumnal collection of vintage fall artwork. A gallery filled with warm-toned still lifes, changing leaves, and all the charm of the sweater weather season.
The Free Public Domain Vintage Halloween Art Prints Collection
An open access art collection of the best free printable vintage Halloween art, spooky paintings, macabre drawings and haunting vintage photography currently available online and in the public domain organized by genre:
Spellbound Halloween Still Life Art
From pumpkins to broomsticks, spellbooks and skulls, I’ve curated some of my favorite Halloween still life art from the public domain and rounded them up for you here!
Johannes Borman – “Festoon of Fruits”
Still life with pumpkin, peach and grapes – Carl Schuch
Peder Severin Krøyer “Interiør”
Johannes Borman – “Festoon of Fruits”
Cyprian Norwid “Interior with a barrel”
Autumn Still Life – William Merritt Chase
Vilhelm Hammershøi “Interior-Artificial Light”
John Frederick Peto “Nine Books”
Félix Ziem – “Nature Morte Au Potiron”
Unknown “Vanitas Still Life”
Charles Ethan Porter “Still Life with Apples”
Master of the Acquavella Still Life “Still life with a fruit bowl and vanitas”
Still Life with Pumpkin, Plums, Cherries, Figs and Jug – Augustin Théodule Ribot
Jacob de Gheyn II “Vanitas Still Life”
Jan Vermeulen “Still Life with Books and Musical Instruments”
Eugène Jansson “Armour and Helmet”
Jan Vermeulen “Still Life with Books and Musical Instruments”
Édouard Manet – “Melon”
Dark & Moody Portrait Paintings
A curated collection of some of the best gothic horror-inspired portrait paintings for Halloween in the public domain featuring brooding gentleman, mysterious ladies and a few spectral entities. (Perfect for use as haunted house wall art and subtle Halloween decor!)
Alfred Stevens – “Autumn Flowers”
Lino Selvatico “Francesca wearing a mask”
Pierre Gobert “Portrait présumé de Mademoiselle de Nantes”
Arnold Böcklin “Melancholy”
Eugène Carrière “The First Communion”
J. M. W. Turner “Self-Portrait”
Arnold Böcklin “Portrait of the Actress Fanny Janauschek”
Kazimierz Stabrowski “Portrait of a Medium”
Eugène Carrière “Girl with her Hair Down”
Rembrandt van Rijn “Titus as a Monk”
Joseph Ducreux “The Surprise in Terror”
Francesco Hayez “Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca”
Eerie Landscape Art
Dark manor houses lit by moonlit skies and ominous scenes of crows and graveyards fill this collection of eerie landscape paintings perfect for Halloween home decor.
Théodore Rousseau “The Forest in Winter at Sunset”
Caspar David Friedrich “The Abbey in the Oakwood”
George Romney “Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky”
John Atkinson Grimshaw “Autumn Morning”
Landscape with Crows – Karl Friedrich Lessing
George Inness “Autumn Woods”
John Atkinson Grimshaw “A Wet Moon, Putney Road”
Charles-François Daubigny “Rising moon in Barbizon”
John Atkinson Grimshaw “A Moonlit Landscape”
John Atkinson Grimshaw “At The Park Gate”
László Mednyánszky “Swampy Landscape”
John Atkinson Grimshaw “An October Afterglow”
Arnold Böcklin “Ruins by the Sea”
Carl Julius von Leypold “Foggy Russian graveyard”
Arnold Böcklin “Moonlit Landscape”
Felician Moczik “Winter landscape”
Ladislav Mednyánszky “Watering hole with ravens”
László Mednyánszky “Moonlit night by the River (Landscape by the Moonlight)”
Halloween Drawings & Sketches
A hand-picked selection of some of my favorite spooky halloween sketches and halloween drawings sourced from public domain archives around the world.
Tree Filled with Crows – Charles-François Daubigny
Harald Sohlberg “Night”
Greylock – Elbridge Kingsley
A Morning – Elbridge Kingsley
Pumpkins Among the Corn
Charles Meryon “Cityscape with Seine and Pont-au-Change in Paris”
The Crackle, or Crow-Blackbird – Ernest Thompson Seton
James Ward “A Human Skeleton”
Unknown “Landscape with Owl and Bats”
Andreas Flinch “Kranium”
Theodor Kittelsen “And whoosh! The Country Mouse darted into the Hole of the House Mouse”
Wilhelm Steinhausen “Schlussvignette”
Anton L. Koster “Kasteel op een klif”
Charles Lamb “The witches’ cauldron”
Gerard de Lairesse “Anatomical study of the tibia and fibula”
Battista Franco “Upper Half of Skeleton from the Back”
Jan Luyken “Spinnen”
Lou Asperslagh “Stilleven”
Hans Thoma “Hexenküche (Witches’ Kitchen)”
George Stubbs “Human Skeleton, Anterior View”
Ľudovít Čordák “Winter Landscape with Crows”
Willem Witsen “Crow”
Heinrich Funk “Waldfriedhof (Forest cemetery)”
Ivan Žabota “Strechy (Roofs)”
Creepy Curiosities & Spooky Vintage Art
Want to push the spooky vibes up a level, here are some of the more macabre works of art I stumbled across on my search for the best vintage Halloween art.
Vincent van Gogh “Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette”
Theodor von Holst “The Wish”
Unknown “Portrait of Vlad III the Impaler”
Feliks Jabłczyński “Mephisto”
Wilhelm Leibl “Totenschädel mit Leichentuch”
Elias Ashmole “Here Followeth the Figure Conteyning [Containing] All the Secrets of the Treatise Both Great & Small”
Matthias Withoos “Landscape with a Graveyard by Night”
John Quidor “The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane”
Jean-François Portaels “The Witch”
Albert Pinkham Ryder “The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)”
Bhawani Das “A Great Indian Fruit Bat or Flying Fox”
Odilon Redon “The spider, she smiles, her eyes raised”
Haunting Vintage Photographs
A hand-picked collection of some of my favorite vintage photographs, dusty daguerreotypes, and examples of vintage spirit photography. (For even more images like this, check out my Memento Mori blog post!)
Whipple & Black
“Nathaniel Hawthorne”
Unknown
“Spirit photograph of a woman with a hand on her face with an image of a man in the background”
Thomas M. Easterly
“Portrait of Mrs. Downing and Mrs. John F. Altemus.”
Unknown “Image of ghost, produced by double exposure”
Thomas M. Easterly
“Monument to “Our Seddie””
Eugène Thiébault “Portrait of Robin, visited by a ghost”
Pierre-Louis Pierson
“La Comtesse”
Jean-Gabriel Eynard
“Group portrait of twelve members of the Circle of Eynard-Lullin outside in front of his home at Beaulieu”
Henry Peach Robinson
“She Never Told Her Love”
Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut
“Brussels Zoological Garden; The three twin sons of Mr. Lebens and the whole family”
Pierre-Louis Pierson
“La Comtesse Reclining in Dark Dress with Chain Around Neck”
Auguste Bruno Braquehais “Communards with machine at the foot of the Vendôme Column, May 1871. Ghost”
Atelier Jaeger “Astri Torsell, rollporträtt”
Pierre-Louis Pierson
“Scherzo di Follia”
Atelier Jaeger “Gunnel Holzhausen in Simson och Delila at Stora teatern i Göteborg 1911”
Thomas M. Easterly “Kate and Maggie Fox, Spirit Mediums from Rochester-New York”
William H. Mumler “John J. Glover”
Thomas M. Easterly
“Bob Wilkinson, Barber of the Southern Hotel”
I can’t wait to see how you use this free printable Halloween art to bring your October decorating ideas and Halloween home decor to life!
What special collection should I put together next? Let me know in the comments below!
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