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A work made of acrylic on cream wove paper with commercially printed text.

Beach of Silenus, 1964

Bob Thompson

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 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

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

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Kuba

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

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

Abstract print of intersecting, curved white lines and loops against a solid black background. Three white rectangular shapes intersect the overlapping lines and loops.

Carma, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

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

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

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