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Charcoal portrait of the African American artist Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence wears a suit jacket and checked shirt with a tie; he has a mustache and his mouth opens in a half smile. The words "Jake Lawrence" are written in the bottom left.

Jacob Lawrence, 1957

Joseph Delaney

A work made of pieced of nine strips of cotton; plain weave with bands of supplementary patterning wefts.

Blanket, Mid–20th century

Dogon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Watching the Whores Fight, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered with raffia in stem stitches and running stitches cut to form pile.

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Kuba

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Continence of Scipio, c. 1706

Sebastiano Ricci

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Girls in Front of Lady D's, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Young Men, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

Advertisement for Breck shampoo, featuring a light-skinned white woman with shiny, short brown hair and red lips. There are a few outlines drawn onto the ad. The artist used this as a model for his drawing of Ella Fitzgerald.

Breck Girl, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of lithograph in red on cream wove paper laid down on linen.

Red Cross Our Day 1917, 1917

John Singer Sargent

A mountainous landscape set against gray skies lies beyond a dirt road or railroad tracks made up of horizontal and parallel black lines.

Til We Meet Again, 1935

Walter Ellison

Abstract black-and-white print. On the left curved and looped thin white lines form a face or human-like shape atop a longer long curved line. On the right is a curved field of white patterned by curving black lines.

Esther, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Woman at a Parade, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1977, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

A white stalk-like form on a black background. The stalk, grounded on the right, curves up and to the left, culminating in a drooping teardrop bud that encloses a single seed.

Karintha, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of brush and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper.

Graduation, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, 18th/19th century

Asante

A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by pearl and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches.

Woman's Overskirt, 19th century

Kuba

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight with a Geometric Design, 18th/19th century

Asante

A work made of screenprint on white wove paper.

L.H.O.O.Q. (X), from Re-print, 2009

Kendell Geers

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Four Children at Lenox Avenue, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

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