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Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress. A white tassel hangs down above the child from a nearby curtain.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805

Joshua Johnson

A work made of iron.

Altar (Asen), 20th century

Fon

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

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A work made of charcoal with smudging, erasing and red crayon on ivory wove paper.

Drawing from "Zeno Writing" (female figure lying on stomach, with text), 2002

William Kentridge

Miniature Mask

Miniature Mask, Early/mid–20th century

Dan

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "The Garage" (1970/80), 1973

Mikki Ferrill

A work made of cotton and wool; thirteen strips of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave and slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining and eccentric wefts; main warp fringe.

Wedding Blanket (Arkilla Jenngo), Early/mid–20th century

Fulani

A work made of color video, sound (five monitors), metal scaffolding; edition number one of three.

Tears for Eros, 1999

Kendell Geers

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl, 1360–1450

Cibola

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sherry, Susan, Wendy, Laura, 1983

Roy DeCarava

Miniature Mask

Miniature Mask, Early/mid–20th century

Dan

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Zanele Muholi

A work made of wood and pigment.

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

Bamana

A work made of cotton, pieced of eight strips of weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave and dovetailed tapestry weave with supplementary patterning wefts; main warp fringe.

Blanket (Kpokpo), 1920/29

Mende

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Zanele Muholi

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 wool, 2:2 broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with rayon in chain stitches; two lengths joined.

Man's Wrapper (Akunitan), 20th century

Akan

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Bantu Children at School, c. 1965

Ernest Cole

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

A work made of vandyke print.

Jonathan's Hands, 1998

Rashid Johnson

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