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A work made of leather-bound book in wooden slipcase, with woodcuts and text on cream japanese paper.

Cane, 2000 edition (text first published in 1923)

Martin Puryear

A work made of linocuts, heightened with watercolor, on two sheets of paper, tipped together in artist's mount.

Madonna and Child with Four Saints, 1936

Allan Rohan Crite

A work made of cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed; two panels joined.

Woman's Àdìrẹ Wrapper, 1970s

Yoruba

A work made of wood, pigment, resin, abrus seeds, and fiber.

Crest Mask (Ngambak), Early-mid 20th century

Koro

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled #3, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

A work made of etching with soft ground, aquatint, drypoint and engraving on fabriano rosapina bianco paper.

Act I, Scene 1, from UBU Tells the Truth, 1996–97

William Kentridge

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sad Man on Dance Floor, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Track in Station, c. 1965

Ernest Cole

A work made of chromogenic print, overlaid with text sandblasted in glass.

For Your Names You Took Hope and Humble, 1995

Carrie Mae Weems

A work made of pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed.

"Strips" Quilt, 1980s

Gearldine Westbrook

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 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.

Child's Tunic, 19th century

Bamana

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 gelatin silver print.

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

Lee Friedlander

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

Untitled, 1995

Lorna Simpson

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

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