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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 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 work made of burnished blackware ceramic.

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

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 color offset lithograph on white wove paper.

South African Women Unite Against Apartheid, 1975/94

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.

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

Dawoud Bey

A work made of oil on panel.

Giafar, 1850s

Alfred Dedreux

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mandoza, from the series "Men Only", 2009

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Morning Blues, from the series "Men Only", 2009

Sabelo Mlangeni

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

Red Cross Our Day 1917, 1917

John Singer Sargent

A work made of carbon pigment print.

A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater, from the portfolio "Harlem, U.S.A." (2005), 1976, printed 2005

Dawoud Bey

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

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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