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A colorful screenprint that depicts abstracted figures dancing. A brown-skinned man wearing a black suit and orange shoes energetically dances with a brown-skinned woman wearing a yellow dress and blue shoes. To the right of the woman are orange shapes that resemble musical instruments. The background is divided into blocks of color—the top left is pale yellow, the top right is white, and the bottom third is filled with vertical blue stripes.

Jitterbugs II, c. 1941

William H. Johnson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Man and Female Nude Leaning on a Chair, 1970

Philip Pearlstein

A work made of oil on canvas.

Head of a Woman, 1939

Georges Rouault

A work made of woodcut in black, with touches of brush and black ink, on cream laid paper.

The Women's Bath, 1530/40

Hans Sebald Beham

A work made of brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper.

Two Women in Yellow Kerchiefs, n.d.

Constantin Guys

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life, 1938

Pierre Roy

Portrait of woman in black and white stripped dress against floral wallpaper.

Portrait of Joaneta Obrador, 1918

Joan Miró

Black-and-white photograph of a fan made of finely carved pieces, featuring nude figures and cherubs among foliage.

Fan, 1775/1800

Benjamin West

A work made of color lithograph on tan wove paper.

At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue and Her Sister, 1892

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A work made of watercolor over traces of graphite on cream wove paper.

Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan, 1874

Édouard Manet

A work made of oil on canvas.

New York Street, 1902

Childe Hassam

A work made of pen and black ink with watercolor, over graphite, on white wove paper.

Two Women, 1947

Paul Delvaux

A female figure with a round face in a full orange robe is bent almost wearily as she rides a horse. White pigment has worn away on the horse, and orange has worn from her robe, revealing a terracotta tone.

Equestrienne, Tang dynasty (618–907), mid-8th century

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lady in Green and Gray, 1911

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mount Washington, 1869

Winslow Homer

Several nude people, each with a different skin hue, relax languidly underneath trees in a rural landscape. The shapes in this painting are simplified, soft. But overall they remain recognizable. Looking upward—toward the background—an oval-shaped portal in the tree copse opens toward a pink mirage. An unconcerned, utopian group, but in somber colors.

The Drying After, 1961

Bob Thompson

Print in thick black lines of two women, pictured from the shoulders up, in front of three apartment buildings. The woman on the left wears a headwrap. She looks directly at the viewer with eyebrows raised and mouth slightly frowning. The woman on the right is in profile, looking at the other woman.

Special Houses, from The Black Woman (formerly The Negro Woman) (published 1946-47), 1946, printed 1989

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of lithograph on zinc, with additions in watercolor and gouache, on ivory wove paper.

Breton Women, c. 1889

Émile Bernard

A work made of black conté crayon on ivory laid paper.

Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884/85

Georges Seurat

A work made of gouache, with touches of graphite, on illustration board.

Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting, 1934

Aaron Douglas

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