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

Abstraction, 1970

Sam Gilliam

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 gelatin silver print.

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

Gordon Parks

A work made of charcoal, pastel, ink, graphite, pen and inks and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

Sketchbook, 1937–42

Charles White

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 acrylic on cream wove paper with commercially printed text.

Beach of Silenus, 1964

Bob Thompson

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 toned gelatin silver print with mixed media.

Mama Wata, 1995

Radcliffe Bailey

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

Hanging, 1980

Thoko Zile

A work made of african hardwood.

Tray (Chano), 1930s

Watercolor painting of a bright-pink bedroom with skewed perspective and flattened forms. Placed diagonally is a bed with a yellow bedframe and red striped sheets. In the center background is a blue dresser with an oval mirror, and on the right is a doorway through we can see a black-skinned figure holding something, possibly a baby.

Virginia Interior, 1942

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of gelatin silver print.

At a Tent Revival Meeting, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

Human figures in many colors wearing hats stand with their heads down near a yellow figure upside down, entwined with another figure, on a purple horse. The yellow figure is the only one in the work with facial features.

The Procession, 1963

Bob Thompson

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

Color print with an ombre sky that fades from bright blue at the top to pale blue at the bottom. At the bottom of the frame, a youthful black figure wearing a cloak looks upward. A large conch shell in vibrant pink floats above the person's head.

Love Letter III, 1977

Charles White

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