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A work made of watercolor and pastel on ivory wove paper.

Composition in Green, 1953

Norman Lewis

A work made of pastel with brush and black ink and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

Green Bough, 1951

Norman Lewis

A work.

Child's Tunic, 19th century

Bamana

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Malcolm X Holding up Black Muslim Newspaper, Los Angeles, California, May 8, 1963

Gordon Parks

A woman with dark brown skin wearing a white dress dances, her arms stretched in a balletic pose. Her figure is emphasized by a background of geometric circles and shapes that form what looks like a runway or stage.

Dance Composition No. 34, 1980s

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Alligator, Mississippi, 1971/86

Birney Imes, III

A work made of watercolor and graphite pencil on cream wove paper.

Baltimore Oriol., n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of terracotta and slip.

Water Container, Early/mid–20th century

Somono

A work made of color waterless lithograph in black, yellow, red, and violet on felt.

Untitled, 1995

Lorna Simpson

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Icarus, 1963

John E. Dowell, Jr.

Geometric shapes outlined in white fit together like a puzzle, coming in from the edges of the canvas. The shapes are blue/green, purple, and orange/purple; they are each colored with small splotches of paint in purple, red yellow, and green/blue.

Con brio, 1983

Keith Morrison

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Joe James at Westwego Fireman's Hall, Louisiana, 1958

Lee Friedlander

Black-and-white photograph of a dark-skinned woman standing in a doorway, leaning on a wall. He hair is pulled back; she wears a formal skirt and vest over a white shirt with a large bow.

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway, 1976, printed 2005

Dawoud Bey

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mother and Child, Free Huey Rally, De Fremery Park, Oakland, from the series "Black Panthers", July 28, 1968, printed 1996

Ruth-Marion Baruch

A work made of wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "turkish" (ghiordes) knots".

Carpet, 1850/1900

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sleazy Guy and Woman, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

Light seems to emanate from a dark-skinned figure (most likely a woman) holding a dark-skinned in their arms. The figure points their face up, eyes closed, a cover over their head and shoulders.

I Have a Dream, 1976

Charles White

A work made of lithograph in black and dark red on off-white coated paper.

Art Towards Social Development, 1982

Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele

A work made of blue ballpoint pen and watercolor on tan wove paper.

Nat King Cole, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

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