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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

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

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

Drawing from "Zeno Writing" (landscape, text fragments), 2002

William Kentridge

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Girl at Number 100, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1975, printed 2011

Dawoud Bey

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

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

A work made of raffia, plain weaves; pieced; appliqúed with plain weaves in pearl stitches; embroidered in pearl stitches; edged with bands of cotton, warp-stripe warp-float faced twill weave; cotton, plain weave; pieced and hemmed in slip and pearl stitches; and cotton, warp-float faced alternating float weave; joined with raffia in pearl and twisted insertion stitches.

Ceremonial Skirt, Late 19th century

Kuba

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Shakeia, 2013

Dawoud Bey

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Spatial poem reply 2, 2015

Kemang Wa Lehulere

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

Box: Head of an African, c. 1750

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Five Children, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", c. 1976, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of limestone.

Church Lady, 1933–37

William Edmondson

A work made of wood, silver, copper, amber, silk, and carnelian.

Prayer-String Necklace, Early 20th century

Tekna

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

New Kids on the Bike, 2002

Robin Rhode

A work made of cotton, eight narrow strips of plain weave; pieced; resist painted and printed.

Married Woman's Bògòlanfini Wrapper, 1988

Jege Coulibaly

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

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Billy Abernathy

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

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 colored inks, with touches of silver metallic paint, on fabric.

Abstraction, 1970

Sam Gilliam

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