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Goldweight with a Geometric Pattern

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

Asante

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 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 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

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 work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

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 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 earthenware (blackware) and slip.

Storage Jar, c. 1900

Sara Fina Tafoya

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

Headscarf, Early 20th century

Ida Ou Nadif

A work made of calabash.

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

Asante

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

South African Women Unite Against Apartheid, 1975/94

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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

Dawoud Bey

Notations on a New Pan-Africanism

Notations on a New Pan-Africanism, 2013

Dawit L. Petros

Charcoal portrait of the African American artist Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence wears a suit jacket and checked shirt with a tie; he has a mustache and his mouth opens in a half smile. The words "Jake Lawrence" are written in the bottom left.

Jacob Lawrence, 1957

Joseph Delaney

A work made of oil on panel.

Giafar, 1850s

Alfred Dedreux

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 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

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