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

Abstraction, 1970

Sam Gilliam

Goldweight with a Geometric Pattern

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

Asante

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

Panel, Possibly mid–20th century

Kuba

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "The Garage" (1970/80), 1970

Mikki Ferrill

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 acrylic on cream wove paper with commercially printed text.

Beach of Silenus, 1964

Bob Thompson

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Jeanette and Floyd Simpson Wedding, 1988

Kerry Coppin

A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots".

Rug, 1938

A work made of african hardwood.

Tray (Chano), 1930s

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Double-exposure Self-portrait in Place du paysan noir (Black Farmer Square), 1965-75

Ibrahima Sanlé Sory

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight Depicting a Seated Figure with Arm Raised, 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

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 wool; plain weave, tassels tops gathered with buttonhole stitches; henna dyed.

Headscarf, Early 20th century

Ida Ou Nadif

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

A work made of calabash.

Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of lithograph in red on cream wove paper laid down on linen.

Red Cross Our Day 1917, 1917

John Singer Sargent

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Harlem, NY, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1978, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

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