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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 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 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.

A Young Boy from a Marching Band, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

At the Bathers’ Pool: Ancient Goddesses and the Contest for Classic Purity, 1985

Robert H. Colescott

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 three color lithographs and title, and colophone pages on white wove paper in portfolio cover.

Ecco Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1988

Marlene Dumas

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

Baltimore Oriol., n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

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

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Icarus, 1963

John E. Dowell, Jr.

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Man and Two Women after a Church Service, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, printed 1980/81

Dawoud Bey

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 steel.

Prick Spur, c. 1800

A work made of gelatin silver print.

New York, c. 1939

Helen Levitt

A work made of terracotta.

Container for Serving Beer (Ukhamba), 1990s-early 2000s

Mncane Nzuza

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

Nat King Cole, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

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