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Long, thin piece of fabric featuring a border design in reddish brown of an undulating vine with curled tendrils and three-petaled blossoms.

Fragment, 4th-5th century

A work made of silver and glass.

Cruet Stand, 1904/05

Koloman (Kolo) Moser

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

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

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 linen and wool, plain weave and slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.

Fragment, 4th century

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed.

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, 6th-7th century

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 wool and linen, slit tapestry weave.

Roundel Fragment, 7th century

Hanging cloth depicting figure in green cloak under rainbow.

Fragment of a Hanging, 5th-6th century

A work made of linen and wool, tapestry weave.

Fragment from a Tunic, 6th-7th century

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 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 gelatin silver print.

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

Robert Rauschenberg

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 linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, 9th-10th century

A work made of wool and linen, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, 5th-6th century

Ancient Egyptian

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