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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

A work made of silver and glass.

Cruet Stand, 1904/05

Koloman (Kolo) Moser

Portrait of a blonde, blue-eyed white woman with her hair up, sitting in an unspecified room. She wears a sheer, light blue dress with fur trim.

Portrait of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, 1915

Virginia Keep Clark

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed
1) sisters i (l: nefertiti, r: devonia)
2) sisters ii (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
3) sisters iii (l: nefertiti's daughter maketaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
4) sisters iv (l: devonia's sister lorraine, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet)
5) ceremonial occasions i (l: devonia as matron of honor, r: nefertiti performing a lustration)
6) ceremonial occasions ii (l: devonia attending a wedding, r: nefertiti performing an aten ritual)
7) a mother's kiss (t: candace and devonia, b: nefertiti and daughter)
8) motherhood (l: nefertiti, r: devonia reading to candace and edward, jr.)
9) young princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter ankhesenpaaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
10) wordly princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
11) crowned heads (l: nefertiti's husband akhenaten, r: devonia's husband edward)
12) young queens (l: nefertiti, aged 24, r: devonia, aged 24)
13) progress of queens (l: devonia, aged 35. r: nefertiti, aged 36)
14) cross-generational (l: nefertiti, the last image, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
15) hero worship (l: devonia at 14 and lorraine at 3, r: devonia at 24 and lorraine at 13)
16) sibling rivalry (l: nefertiti, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet).

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

Print in black ink of a black boy sitting on a stool. Behind him looms a skeleton in a white hooded costume holding a noose. The skeleton is held back by a larger-than-life black man in glasses, William Patterson, who reaches in from the right side of the image wearing a banner that reads, "CRC."

Civil Rights Congress, 1949

Elizabeth Catlett

Historical black and white photographical portrait of Black man in a suit, gold frame.

Frederick Douglass, 1847-52

Samuel J. Miller

A work made of terracotta.

La Pythie Philippise, 1927

Emile-Antoine Bourdelle

Black-and-white etching of students with dark skin walking, escorted by white man. On the left behind a short barrier, a crowd of men with white skin gesture angrily and yell at the students. One man wears what appears to be a pointed cloak, like those worn by the Ku Klux Klan. A white man with a dog stands between the men and the students.

First Day of School, 1965

Vincent Smith

A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Continence of Scipio, c. 1706

Sebastiano Ricci

A work made of tempera on panel.

The Continence of Scipio, c. 1455

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni

A work made of limestone.

Chak Ak’ Paat Kuy ("Red Turkey") Playing the Ballgame, 650-700

Maya

A work made of turquoise, earthenware, stucco, spondylus shell, mother of pearl, and iron pyrite, with pigment.

Mosaic Disk with a Mythological and Historical Scene, 1400–1500

Mixtec

A work made of oil on canvas.

Homer Dictating, 1660/65

Pier Francesco Mola

A light-skinned nude woman, center, struggles while a light-skinned nude man, top left, violently pulls white translucent fabric off of her. Dark red and brown textiles, a pillow, dagger, and fallen nude statue complete the scene.

Tarquin and Lucretia, 1578–80

Tintoretto

A work made of gelatin silver print.

11-81-C-3A #3, 1954/81

Robert Rauschenberg

A work made of bronze.

Portrait of Balzac, Modeled 1893, cast 1926–33

Auguste Rodin

An older black woman in white bonnet, wire glasses, long dress, and shawl sits holding yarn. She looks at the camera thoughtfully, one hand raised, with her elbow resting on a small table. Beneath her is the caption "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth."

Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance"), 1864-65

Sojourner Truth

A work made of tempera on panel, transferred to canvas mounted on pressed hardboard and cradled.

The Assassination and Funeral of Julius Caesar, 1455/60

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni

A work made of tempera on panel.

The Battle of Pharsalus and the Death of Pompey, c. 1455

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni