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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Off on My Own (Harlem, New York), from the series "Harlem is Nowhere", 1948

Gordon Parks

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Dark Water, 1985

Roy DeCarava

A work made of oil on canvas.

Black Pride Whitewashed, 1971

Norman Parish

A work made of lithograph in warm and cool black on tan wove paper.

Sound of Silence, 1979

Charles White

A work made of graphite, with erasing and smudging (recto), and graphite (verso), on white wove paper.

Untitled, Drawing for Sanctuary (recto and verso), c. 1982 (recto); n.d. (verso)

Martin Puryear

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Man and Two Women after a Church Service, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976, printed 1980/81

Dawoud Bey

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Mile of Sculpture, 1984

Martin Puryear

A work made of colored pencils and pastel, with touches of blue ballpoint pen, on cream wove paper.

Nude Model, Reclining, n.d.

Marion Perkins

A work made of color woodblock on cream japanese paper.

Figure Assemblage I, 1959

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of collage and acrylic on canvas.

One Thing Leads to Another, 1968

Ralph Arnold

A work made of terracotta.

Container for Serving Beer (Ukhamba), 1990s-early 2000s

Mncane Nzuza

Two larger-than-life, soft, black, lung-like shapes are attached to a rectangular black canvas. They project out from the canvas and hang toward the floor; their surfaces are opaque and they are outlined in red/pink.

Untitled (lungs), 2008–13

Rodney McMillian

A work made of inkless intaglio and embossing, with collage of cut and pasted papers, on white wove paper.

Vegetal, 1969

Ralph Arnold

A work made of 16mm film, silent, transferred to digital video (projection or monitor); 54 sec. loop.

Unexploded, 2007

Steve McQueen

A work made of gelatin silver print.

New York, c. 1939

Helen Levitt

Black-and-white portrait photograph of a young black woman standing in a dark velvet dress with asymmetrical buttons, tight bodice, and dark lace collar. Text belows in block letters: "Walter E. Chickering, 627 Washington St., Boston, Near Globe and Park Theatres."

Untitled (Portrait of Young Woman), 1866/1900

Unknown

A work made of etching, aquatint, and flat bite with color additions on ivory wove paper.

Dance Composition No. 31, 1978

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Woman at 7th Avenue & 138th Street, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1976/77, printed by 1979

Dawoud Bey

A solidly black image in which hazy form, perhaps a figure, appears slightly left of center in a mottled hue slightly lighter thank the surrounding black.

Untitled, 1999

Ellen Gallagher

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Harlem, NY, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1975, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

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