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A work made of oil on canvas.

Poor Room—There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever without End, 1942–43, 1948–55, 1957–63

Ivan Albright

A work made of black and colored inks on photographic enlargement.

Celia L. Marriott Apartment, Chicago, Illinois, Interior Perspective, 1983

Krueck & Olsen

A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of Mary Block, 1955–57

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Western Industrial, 1955

Charles Sheeler

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

A work made of oil on canvas.

And Man Created God in His Own Image, 1930–31

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Black Pride Whitewashed, 1971

Norman Parish

A work made of inkjet print.

Green, Chicago River, from the series “Revealing Chicago” (2003-04), March 13, 2004

Terry Evans

A work made of oil on canvas.

Memories of the Past, 1927

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Charles Deering (Marion Denison Whipple), 1888

John Singer Sargent

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Ready for the Fiesta, 1920

William Penhallow Henderson

A work made of relief etching from a zinc plate on grayish-ivory china paper.

Calavera of Francisco Madero, from Calavera Maderista, printed 1944

José Guadalupe Posada

Color print of ten African American people raising their fists. They stand in two diagonal lines that converge in the middle. In the background, "unite" is repeated diagonally in yellow, purple, blue, and red block letters.

Unite (AfriCOBRA), 1971

Barbara Jones

A work made of watercolor with crayon and glue layered on wove paper, laid down on board, in artist's frame.

Nude Woman, Full Body, 1937

Ivan Albright

A self-portrait oil painting of American artist Archibald John Motley, Jr. He wears a white shirt, a black tie with a diamond horseshoe pin, and a brown jacket; in his left hand he holds a palette, upon which are splotches of paint arranged according to the order of the color wheel; in his right hand he holds a long, slender paintbrush. Motley’s eyes are directed towards the viewer, he has a small mustache, and his light brown skin is contrasted by the black background.

Self-Portrait, c. 1920

Archibald John Motley Jr.

A work made of oil on board.

Figure in Pink and Yellow, 1914

Manierre Dawson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Thistles, 1883–89

John Singer Sargent

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Chicago, 1958

Ray Krueger Metzker

Large black sculpture in the shape of Africa. The form is covered in gold chains, circular photographs or "medallions" depicting prominent African American figures, and other images and text. The sculpture hangs on a white wall. "

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra), 2003-ongoing

Kerry James Marshall

A work made of lithograph on off-white wove paper.

Heavy the Oar to Him Who is Tired, Heavy the Coat, Heavy the Sea, 1939

Ivan Albright

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