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

Untitled (the Great Society) I, 2006

Rodney McMillian

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

Box: Head of an African, c. 1750

A work made of monotype on cream japanese paper.

The Sunny South, 1939

Walter Ellison

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Wall of Respect), 1967-71

Bob Crawford

A work made of painted poplar.

Sister Tuesday, 1934

Leslie G. Bolling

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 gelatin silver print.

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

Zanele Muholi

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Intrigue, c. 1935

James VanDerZee

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

Preacher Man, 2015

Rodney McMillian

A work made of graphite and black colored pencil with brush and orange and yellow inks and watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor on wove graph paper.

African Fractals, from Human_3.0 Reading List, 2015

Cauleen Smith

Color print of ten African American people raising their fists. They stand in two diagonal lines that converge in the middle. In the background, "unite" is repeated diagonally in yellow, purple, blue, and red block letters.

Unite (AfriCOBRA), 1971

Barbara Jones

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

Several nude people, each with a different skin hue, relax languidly underneath trees in a rural landscape. The shapes in this painting are simplified, soft. But overall they remain recognizable. Looking upward—toward the background—an oval-shaped portal in the tree copse opens toward a pink mirage. An unconcerned, utopian group, but in somber colors.

The Drying After, 1961

Bob Thompson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Invisible Man (Harlem, New York), from the series "A Man Becomes Invisible" (1952), 1952

Gordon Parks

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 self-portrait oil painting of American artist Archibald John Motley, Jr. He wears a white shirt, a black tie with a diamond horseshoe pin, and a brown jacket; in his left hand he holds a palette, upon which are splotches of paint arranged according to the order of the color wheel; in his right hand he holds a long, slender paintbrush. Motley’s eyes are directed towards the viewer, he has a small mustache, and his light brown skin is contrasted by the black background.

Self-Portrait, c. 1920

Archibald John Motley Jr.

An oil painting of a large, male African American figure who looks left into the distance. He holds his hand out towards the dark blue sky, and he appears to break free from a pile of rubble in the background.

This, My Brother, 1942

Charles White

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