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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

A work made of watercolor and pastel on ivory wove paper.

Composition in Green, 1953

Norman Lewis

A work made of pastel with brush and black ink and watercolor on ivory wove paper.

Green Bough, 1951

Norman Lewis

A work.

Child's Tunic, 19th century

Bamana

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Malcolm X Holding up Black Muslim Newspaper, Los Angeles, California, May 8, 1963

Gordon Parks

A woman with dark brown skin wearing a white dress dances, her arms stretched in a balletic pose. Her figure is emphasized by a background of geometric circles and shapes that form what looks like a runway or stage.

Dance Composition No. 34, 1980s

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Alligator, Mississippi, 1971/86

Birney Imes, III

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Joe James at Westwego Fireman's Hall, Louisiana, 1958

Lee Friedlander

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mother and Child, Free Huey Rally, De Fremery Park, Oakland, from the series "Black Panthers", July 28, 1968, printed 1996

Ruth-Marion Baruch

A work made of watercolor and graphite pencil on cream wove paper.

Baltimore Oriol., n.d.

Joseph Yoakum

Polychrome Jar

Polychrome Jar, 1840–60

Pueblo of Acoma

A work made of terracotta and slip.

Water Container, Early/mid–20th century

Somono

A work made of copper alloy.

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

Asante

A work made of color waterless lithograph in black, yellow, red, and violet on felt.

Untitled, 1995

Lorna Simpson

Geometric shapes outlined in white fit together like a puzzle, coming in from the edges of the canvas. The shapes are blue/green, purple, and orange/purple; they are each colored with small splotches of paint in purple, red yellow, and green/blue.

Con brio, 1983

Keith Morrison

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Icarus, 1963

John E. Dowell, Jr.

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sleazy Guy and Woman, from the series "The Bar", 1979/89

Larry Chatman

Black-and-white photograph of a dark-skinned woman standing in a doorway, leaning on a wall. He hair is pulled back; she wears a formal skirt and vest over a white shirt with a large bow.

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway, 1976, printed 2005

Dawoud Bey

Light seems to emanate from a dark-skinned figure (most likely a woman) holding a dark-skinned in their arms. The figure points their face up, eyes closed, a cover over their head and shoulders.

I Have a Dream, 1976

Charles White

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