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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Invisible Woman II, from the series "Invisible Women", 2006

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of terracotta.

Water Container, Early/mid–20th century

Nupe

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Man Coming up Subway Stairs, 1952, printed 1996

Roy DeCarava

A work made of screenprint on off-white wove paper.

African National Congress, 1985

Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele

A work made of silk and rayon, twenty-four narrow woven strips with bands of warp-stripe plain weave, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, and weft-faced plain weave; joined; main warp fringe.

Kente Wrapper, 1900/25

Asante

A work made of oil on canvas.

View on the River Roseau, Dominica, 1770–80

Agostino Brunias

A marble bust of Christ's face in agony: the face is vertically elongated, and other features are exaggerated, including deeply inset eyes and full lips. On the hairline is a crown of thorns carved in relief.

Man of Sorrows, 1950

Marion Perkins

A work made of wool, plain weave; appliquéd with nylon machine knitting and wool and rayon felt; embroidered with wool, wax-coated-wool and rayon in buttonhole, cross, long-armed cross, and stem stitches; back stitch couching; knotted wool and cut fringe.

Shoulder Cloth (Akbazi), 1930s/40s

Ida Ou Nadif

A work made of steel.

Afrophoenix No. 1, 1963

Melvin Edwards

A work made of digital animation, color, sound; 1 min. 22 sec..

New Kids on the Bike, 2002

Robin Rhode

A work made of super 8 film, silent, transferred to digital video (monitor); 1:05 min. loop.

Exodus, 1992/97

Steve McQueen

A work made of inkjet prints (diptych), from "the birmingham project".

Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas, 2012

Dawoud Bey

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight Depicting a Pyramid, 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of mezzotint with etching in black and color aquatint from multiple plates on ivory wove paper.

Jewels/Theme II, 1985

Eldzier Cortor

Red and black colored photograph of an African American man with several scars on his back, the title etched in glass on top of the image.

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low Blowing Itself - Ha - Smack into the Middle of Duke Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard It Too & Cried Strange Fruit Tears, 1995

Carrie Mae Weems

A photograph of an empty parking lot at night. A mangled tree leans on the rear of a white semi-truck, which is illuminated by a tall street light. The sky is dark blue; debris is scatted on the ground of the parking lot; houses and cars are visibly in the background.

for everyone a garden VII, from the series "for everyone a garden", 2013

David Hartt

Color photograph, divided into six panels, of two seated women looking at camera.

Candida and Her Mother, Celia, II, 1994

Dawoud Bey

Abstract painting featuring wide horizontal bands of pinkish red at top and bottom with a band of white and band of black in the middle. Each color section has a subtle white gradient, and hints of all of these colors are present in each of the bands.

Taos, 1982

Ed Clark

A work made of inkjet prints (10) and transparencies (10).

Rock Anatomy, 2018, printed 2019

Abraham Oghobase

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