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Polychrome Jar

Polychrome Jar, 1840–60

Pueblo of Acoma

A work made of watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and brown and black ink, red chalk, and brown pastel, on cream wove paper.

Composition in Brown, 1953

Norman Lewis

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

Bona, from Cane, 2000

Martin Puryear

A work made of center field: raffia, plain weave; stamped or painted; borders: alternating bands of cotton and raffia, plain and twill weaves; resist dyed, painted, or stamped; and raffia, plain weave; embroidered with raffia in running stitches cut to form pile; all edged with raffia, plain weave with knotted, cut pompons; end: raffia, plain weave; tie-dyed; joined with raffia yarns in pearl stitches.

Man's Overskirt, 20th century

Kuba

A work made of 35 mm film, sound, transferred to high definition quick-time movie file (projection); 18:04 min. loop.

Gravesend, 2007

Steve McQueen

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Our Nightly Bread", 1970s, printed later

Ricardo Rangel

A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of Emmanuel Rio, 1836

Albert Schindler

A work made of gelatin silver print.

High School Prom, Navy Pier, Chicago, 1987

Thomas Frederick Arndt

A work made of cotton, plain weave; resist-dyed; two panels joined.

Woman's Àdìrẹ Wrapper, 1970s

Yoruba

A work made of green, blue, purple, and black felt-tip pen and colored pencil on ivory wove paper.

A Patch of Mayple Trees Gonziere Park at Spokane Washington, 1972

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of leather-bound book in wooden slipcase, with woodcuts and text on cream japanese paper.

Cane, 2000 edition (text first published in 1923)

Martin Puryear

A work made of wood, pigment, resin, abrus seeds, and fiber.

Crest Mask (Ngambak), Early-mid 20th century

Koro

A work made of linocuts, heightened with watercolor, on two sheets of paper, tipped together in artist's mount.

Madonna and Child with Four Saints, 1936

Allan Rohan Crite

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.

Track in Station, c. 1965

Ernest Cole

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled #3, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Invisible Woman III, 2006

Sabelo Mlangeni

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sad Man on Dance Floor, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

A work made of chromogenic print, overlaid with text sandblasted in glass.

For Your Names You Took Hope and Humble, 1995

Carrie Mae Weems

A work made of pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed.

"Strips" Quilt, 1980s

Gearldine Westbrook

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