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A work made of wool, stripes of weft-faced plain weave and stripes of slit and double interlocking tapestry weave, main warp fringe.

Tent Hanging or Coverlet (Djerbi), Mid–/late 19th century

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ayanda Mqakayi, Nyanga East, Cape Town, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2011, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

Miniature Mask

Miniature Mask, Early/mid–20th century

Dan

A work made of wood and pigment.

Helmet (Sigi Kun), Mid-19th to mid-20th century

Bamana

Film still of ocean, orange sunset, small boat in shadow.

Caribs' Leap/Western Deep, 2002

Steve McQueen

A work made of cotton thread, glass beads, and cowrie shells.

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A full-body, photograph of a nude, female figure in profile. She sits on a pallet of blankets in front of a fireplace, and in the background is an ascending staircase.

Nude, 1925

James VanDerZee

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Bakhambile Skhosana, Natalspruit, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2010, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of cotton, eight narrow strips of plain weave; pieced; resist painted and printed.

Married Woman's Bògòlanfini Wrapper, 1988

Djowari Suko

Black-and-white photograph of a black girl in profile looking out the window of log cabin, eyes partially closed, toward an open shutter covered in tattered newspaper advertisements, one featuring an image of a white woman. The girl's hair is in braids, her light shirt slightly dirty.

Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1937

Arthur Rothstein

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Daddy Grace at the Altar with Choir, 1938

James VanDerZee

Sculpture of wooden panels shaped like an abstract chair with a deep narrow base.

Lever #1, 1988/89

Martin Puryear

A work made of terracotta and slip.

Storage Container, Early/mid–20th century

Nuna

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Bantu Children at School, c. 1965

Ernest Cole

A work made of vandyke print.

Jonathan's Hands, 1998

Rashid Johnson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele, 1984, printed c. 2012

David Goldblatt

A work made of 16mm color film, sound, transferred to digital video (projection); 3:11.

Monument, 1990

William Kentridge

A work made of suite of five paintings: vignette 2 (2005): acrylic on plexiglas; vignette 2.25 (2008); vignette 2.50 (2008) and vignette 2.75 (2008): acrylic on polyvinyl; vignette 3 (2005): acrylic on plexiglas.

Vignette Suite, 2005/08

Kerry James Marshall

Jewel-toned landscape painting. A large green hill dotted with trees rises in the center; the sky is blue with white clouds. Faceless figures in hues of red, blue, yellow, and orange walk from left to right in front of the hill. In the foreground two figures pull a dark blue body from a pond of the same color, while others lay in twisted and disfigured shapes on the ground.

Death of the Infant Bethel, 1965

Bob Thompson

A work made of durst lambda print on paper, 2/5 limited edition.

Okavango Delta Spa, Botswana, Rendering, 1997

ROY

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