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Advertisement for Breck shampoo, featuring a light-skinned white woman with shiny, short brown hair and red lips. There are a few outlines drawn onto the ad. The artist used this as a model for his drawing of Ella Fitzgerald.

Breck Girl, n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of gilded iron or steel.

Pair of Prick Spurs, 18th/19th century

Abstract black-and-white print. On the left curved and looped thin white lines form a face or human-like shape atop a longer long curved line. On the right is a curved field of white patterned by curving black lines.

Esther, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A mountainous landscape set against gray skies lies beyond a dirt road or railroad tracks made up of horizontal and parallel black lines.

Til We Meet Again, 1935

Walter Ellison

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A.m./p.m. travellers from KwaNdebele buying their weekly season tickets at the PUTCO Bus Depot in Pretoria, 1984

David Goldblatt

A white stalk-like form on a black background. The stalk, grounded on the right, curves up and to the left, culminating in a drooping teardrop bud that encloses a single seed.

Karintha, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of brush and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper.

Graduation, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Woman at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

Collage of newspaper clippings alongside a blue shape painted on a black background. In the bottom right is written "Arnold - 63".

Blue Images, 1963

Ralph Arnold

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rafael Benito, a.k.a. Luc R. Mesadieu; Haitian Singer, Guitarist and Artist, September 11, 1987

Kerry Coppin

A work made of black and colored pencils on ivory wove paper.

Fable of Belonging, 2003

Kara Walker

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Man in Window, New York, 1978

Roy DeCarava

Several panels of a cartoon comic about a dog police officer speaking to a mouse that is trying to bribe him with a banana to get away with a crime.

Krazy Kat, 1922

George Herriman

A work made of color photo-lithograph on white wove paper.

Chicago Duet, 2004

John E. Dowell, Jr.

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled, 1956-62

Robert Earl Wilson

A work made of etching with soft ground, aquatint, drypoint and engraving on fabriano rosapina bianco paper.

Act I, Scene 1, from UBU Tells the Truth, 1996–97

William Kentridge

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Twins Shoe Repair Shop, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976/77, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A work made of woodcut on cream japanese paper.

Becky, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of woodcut in black on cream colored kitakata, a japanese handmade paper.

Fern, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of gelatin silver print.

New Year's Eve gathering, South Shore, Chicago, January 1, 1988

Kerry Coppin

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