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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

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

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 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

A work made of wool; plain weave, tassels tops gathered with buttonhole stitches; henna dyed.

Headscarf, Early 20th century

Ida Ou Nadif

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 lithograph in red on cream wove paper laid down on linen.

Red Cross Our Day 1917, 1917

John Singer Sargent

A work made of calabash.

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

Asante

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Dawoud Bey

A photograph of a gallery installation. The installation is a dyed canvas draped over two wooden sawhorses. The colorful canvas is almost sculptural, folded and bunched in space on top of the sawhorses.

"A" and the Carpenter I, 1973

Sam Gilliam

A work made of screenprint on white wove paper.

L.H.O.O.Q. (X), from Re-print, 2009

Kendell Geers

A work made of oil on panel.

Giafar, 1850s

Alfred Dedreux

How Do You Get a Nigger Out of a Tree?

How Do You Get a Nigger Out of a Tree?, 1987

Carrie Mae Weems

A white sheet of paper covered in the word "Backlash," printed over and over again in black. The words overlap and intersect and split up, creating a gradient—light at the top of the paper, and dark (almost illegible) at the bottom.

Backlash, Backlash..., 1991

Glenn Ligon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Ballerinas, Bud Bilikin Day Parade, Hyde Park, Chicago, 1987

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of color offset lithograph on white wove paper.

South African Women Unite Against Apartheid, 1975/94

Notations on a New Pan-Africanism

Notations on a New Pan-Africanism, 2013

Dawit L. Petros

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