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Black-and-white woodcut of an abstracted sunset. On the top is the sun rising from a straight horizon line, and on the bottom is an upside down sun-like form, connected to curving lines and dots.

Avey, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

Abstract painting in bright yellow, green, and orange. Undulating, visible brushstrokes give the surface a bright yet dusty and layered effect.

Untitled, 1965

Beauford Delaney

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Robe, from the series "Born Hip", 1962

Billy Abernathy

Woman's Apron

Woman's Apron, Mid–20th century

Grasslands

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Untitled (the Great Society) I, 2006

Rodney McMillian

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed.

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Wall of Respect), 1967-71

Bob Crawford

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Matseleng Kgoaripe, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2011, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Man on the Corner of Lenox Avenue & 125th Street, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of single-channel color video, with sound.

Preacher Man, 2015

Rodney McMillian

A work made of terracotta.

Storage Vessel, Early/mid–20th century

Igbo

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Freddie Dilworth, West Lake Street, Chicago, 1991

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1960

Malick Sidibé

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (I Pose with my Cap) [Sans titre (Je pose avec ma casquette)], c. 1965

Malick Sidibé

A work made of raffia, plain weave; embroidered with raffia in stem stitches and running stitches cut to form pile.

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Kuba

A work made of limestone.

Church Lady, 1933–37

William Edmondson

A work made of toned gelatin silver print with mixed media.

Mama Wata, 1995

Radcliffe Bailey

A work made of pieced cotton, polyester, cellulose acetate, silk, rayon and acrylic, plain weaves; some with supplementary warps some forming cut voided pile; some self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats; some printed; plain weave derived float weave; twill weaves, some printed; satin weave; and machine knitting; backed with cotton, plain weave; quilted with cotton threads.

"Housetop Half-Log Cabin" Quilt, c. 1975

Jessie T. Pettway

A work made of polychrome enamel on copper with metal mounts.

Box: Head of an African, c. 1750

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile; wrapped with cotton.

Hanging, 1980

Thoko Zile

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